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61intestine — The digestive tube passing from the stomach to the anus. It is divided primarily into the intestinum tenue (small i.) and the intestinum crassum (large i.). SYN: bowel, gut (1), intestinum (1). [L. intestinum] large i. [TA] the portion of the… …
62Clean — The various forms of uncleanness according to the Mosaic law are enumerated in Lev. 11 15; Num. 19. The division of animals into clean and unclean was probably founded on the practice of sacrifice. It existed before the Flood (Gen. 7:2). The… …
63Geomantic figures — The sixteen geomantic figures. The 16 geomantic figures are the primary symbols used in the art of divinatory geomancy. Each geomantic figure represents a certain state of the world or the mind, and can be interpreted in various ways based upon… …
64Ketogenic diet — The ketogenic diet is a high fat, adequate protein, low carbohydrate diet, primarily used to treat difficult to control (refractory) epilepsy in children. The diet mimics aspects of starvation by forcing the body to burn fat rather than… …
65Rack (torture device) — The rack is a torture device that consists of an oblong rectangular, usually wooden frame, slightly raised from the ground, with a roller at one, or both, ends, having at one end a fixed bar to which the legs were fastened, and at the other a… …
66Krill fishery — The Krill fishery is the commercial fishery of krill, small shrimp like marine animals that live in the oceans world wide. Estimates for how much krill there is vary wildly, depending on the methodology used. They range from 125 ndash;725 million …
67Tennis terminology — The following is a list of tennis terms, sorted alphabetically.TOC|left|Contents A* Ace ndash; a serve where the tennis ball served is served in and not touched by the receiver, aces are usually powerful and generally land on or near the one of… …
68Croonian Lecture — The Croonian Lectures are prestigious lectureships given at the invitation of the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians.[citation needed] Among the papers of William Croone at his death in 1684, was a plan to endow one lectureship at… …
69National Hotel disease — The National Hotel in Washington, D.C., the site of the mysterious disease. The National Hotel epidemic was a mysterious sickness which afflicted persons who stayed at the National Hotel in Washington, D.C. beginning in early January 1857.[1] The …
70Táltos — The táltos (also tátos ) (Pron: tal tosh) is a figure in ancient Hungarian mythology similar to a shaman.According to Roman Catholic priest Arnold Ipolyi, in his book Magyar mitológia (Hungarian Mythology) from 1854, a táltos was in direct… …
