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  2. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    of or pertaining to the eye's pupil: Greek κόρη (kórē), girl, doll; pupil of the eye corectomy: cord(i)-of or pertaining to the heart (uncommon as a prefix) Latin cor, heart commotio cordis, cornu-applied to describing processes and parts of the body as likened or similar to horns Latin cornū, horn greater cornu: coron-pertaining to the ...

  3. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a web-based free-to-use translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [ 11] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation (SMT) service. [ 11] The input text had to be translated into English first ...

  4. List of South African slang words - Wikipedia

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    Can also mean "crazy" in a very strong sense, as in "Are you befok?" – derogatory. Can also mean "to have sex with". befoetered/bedonnered/bemoerd – lit. "extremely angry" similar to "diedonnerend", etc. Usually used to refer to a person who is often in a very bad mood.

  5. Retinitis pigmentosa - Wikipedia

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    While the macula is preserved there is some loss of pigmentation around it. Retinitis pigmentosa ( RP) is a genetic disorder of the eyes that causes loss of vision. [ 1] Symptoms include trouble seeing at night and decreasing peripheral vision (side and upper or lower visual field). [ 1] As peripheral vision worsens, people may experience ...

  6. Iridology - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Iridology (also known as iridodiagnosis[ 1] or iridiagnosis[ 2]) is an alternative medicine technique whose proponents claim that patterns, colors, and other characteristics of the iris can be examined to determine information about a patient's systemic health. Practitioners match their observations to iris charts, which divide the iris ...

  7. Translation - Wikipedia

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    Machine translation (MT) is a process whereby a computer program analyzes a source text and, in principle, produces a target text without human intervention. In reality, however, machine translation typically does involve human intervention, in the form of pre-editing and post-editing. [ 97]

  8. Onan - Wikipedia

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    He wrote his Thoughts on the Sin of Onan (1767), which was reproduced as A Word to Whom it May Concern on 1779, as an attempt to censor a work by Samuel-Auguste Tissot. [36] In that writing, Wesley warned about "the dangers of self pollution", the bad physical and mental effects of masturbation, [ 37 ] [ 36 ] writes many such cases along with ...

  9. Myopia - Wikipedia

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    The idea that myopia was caused by the eye strain involved in reading or doing other work close to the eyes was a consistent theme for several centuries. [101] In Taiwan, faced with a staggering rise in the number of young military recruits needing glasses, the schools were told to give students' eyes a 10-minute break after every half-hour of ...