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105 relations: Acrotomophilia, Adapted automobile, Aimee Mullins, American Statistical Association, Amniotic band constriction, Amy Purdy, Aron Ralston, Artery, Athlete, Bethany Hamilton, Birth defect, Bleeding, Body integrity identity disorder, Bone, Cancer, Castration, Challenged Athletes Foundation, Chondrosarcoma, Circumcision, Clitoridectomy, Congenital amputation, Corporal punishment, Daniel Chick, Decapitation, Diabetes mellitus, Disabled sports, Disarticulation, Disease, Dismemberment, Douglas Bader, Enucleation of the eye, Epithelioid sarcoma, Ewing's sarcoma, Fetus, Fibrosarcoma, Fibular hemimelia, Forequarter amputation, Foreskin, Frida Kahlo, Frostbite, Gangrene, Genital modification and mutilation, Glossectomy, Hemicorporectomy, Heterotopic ossification, Hugh Herr, Hyperbaric medicine, Iberomaurusian, Improvised explosive device, Injury, ..., Iraq War, Jone Tawake, Krukenberg procedure, Latin, Legal system of Saudi Arabia, Legal system of the United Arab Emirates, Legal system of Yemen, Ligature (medicine), Limb-sparing techniques, Liposarcoma, Lying (position), Mastectomy, Melanoma, Microsurgery, National Football League, Oscar Pistorius, Osteomyelitis, Osteosarcoma, Penectomy, Pete Gray, Phantom eye syndrome, Phantom limb, Phantoms in the Brain, Polydactyly, Prehistoric North Africa, Proprioception, Prosthesis, Proximal femoral focal deficiency, Punishment, Reciprocating saw, Replantation, Rhinotomy, Ring finger, Robert David Hall, Robotic prosthesis control, Ronnie Lott, Rotationplasty, Rugby union, Sacrococcygeal teratoma, Safety (gridiron football position), Sandra Blakeslee, Sepsis, Sex organ, Shaquem Griffin, Stump sock, Surgery, Synovial sarcoma, Tammy Duckworth, Tarsometatarsal joints, Team Zaryen, Terry Fox, Toe, Vein, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, 1985 NFL season. Expand index (55 more) »
Acrotomophilia
Acrotomophilia (from the Greek ἀκρότομος "having the top cut off" (from ἄκρον akron "extremity" and -τομος -tomos from τέμνω temno "I cut") and φιλία philia "love") is a paraphilia in which an individual expresses strong sexual interest in amputees.
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Adapted automobile
An adapted automobile is an automobile adapted for ease of use by disabled people.
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Aimee Mullins
Aimee Mullins (born July 20, 1975) is an American athlete, actress, and fashion model who first became famous for her athletic accomplishments.
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American Statistical Association
The American Statistical Association (ASA) is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in the United States.
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Amniotic band constriction
Amniotic band constriction (also known as "amniotic band syndrome", "ADAM complex", "Amniotic band sequence", "Congenital constriction bands" and "Pseudoainhum") is a congenital disorder caused by entrapment of fetal parts (usually a limb or digits) in fibrous amniotic bands while in utero.
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Amy Purdy
Amelia "Amy" Purdy (born November 7, 1979) is an American actress, model, para-snowboarder, motivational speaker, clothing designer and author.
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Aron Ralston
Aron Lee Ralston (born October 27, 1975) is an American outdoorsman, mechanical engineer and motivational speaker known for having survived a canyoneering accident in southeastern Utah in 2003 during which he amputated his own right forearm with a dull pocketknife in order to free himself from a dislodged boulder which had him trapped in Blue John Canyon for six days.
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Artery
An artery (plural arteries) is a blood vessel that takes blood away from the heart to all parts of the body (tissues, lungs, etc).
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Athlete
An athlete (also sportsman or sportswoman) is a person who competes in one or more sports that involve physical strength, speed or endurance.
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Bethany Hamilton
Bethany Meilani Hamilton-Dirks (born February 8, 1990) is an American professional surfer who survived a 2003 shark attack in which her left arm was bitten off but who ultimately returned to—and was victorious in—professional surfing.
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Birth defect
A birth defect, also known as a congenital disorder, is a condition present at birth regardless of its cause.
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Bleeding
Bleeding, also known as hemorrhaging or haemorrhaging, is blood escaping from the circulatory system.
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Body integrity identity disorder
Body integrity identity disorder (BIID, also referred to as Body integrity dysphoria, amputee identity disorder and xenomelia, formerly called apotemnophilia) is a proposed disorder in which otherwise healthy individuals perceive one or more of their limbs or organs as alien to the rest of their body and wish to have it amputated.
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Bone
A bone is a rigid organ that constitutes part of the vertebrate skeleton.
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Cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.
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Castration
Castration (also known as gonadectomy) is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which an individual loses use of the testicles.
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Challenged Athletes Foundation
The Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF), established in 1997, assists, supports, and provides opportunity to people with physical challenges, so that they can lead active lifestyles and compete in athletic events.
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Chondrosarcoma
Chondrosarcoma is a cancer composed of cells derived from transformed cells that produce cartilage.
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Circumcision
Male circumcision is the removal of the foreskin from the human penis.
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Clitoridectomy
Clitoridectomy or clitorectomy is the surgical removal, reduction, or partial removal of the clitoris.
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Congenital amputation
Congenital amputation is birth without a limb or limbs, or without a part of a limb or limbs.
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Corporal punishment
Corporal punishment or physical punishment is a punishment intended to cause physical pain on a person.
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Daniel Chick
Daniel Chick (born 10 February 1976) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn and the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League.
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Decapitation
Decapitation is the complete separation of the head from the body.
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Diabetes mellitus
Diabetes mellitus (DM), commonly referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic disorders in which there are high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period.
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Disabled sports
Disabled sports, also adaptive sports or parasports, are sports played by persons with a disability, including physical and intellectual disabilities.
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Disarticulation
In medical terminology, disarticulation is the separation of two bones at their joint, either traumatically by way of injury or by a surgeon during arthroplasty or amputation.
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Disease
A disease is any condition which results in the disorder of a structure or function in an organism that is not due to any external injury.
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Dismemberment
Dismemberment is the act of cutting, tearing, pulling, wrenching or otherwise removing the limbs of a living thing.
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Douglas Bader
Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, (21 February 1910 – 5 September 1982) was a Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War.
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Enucleation of the eye
Enucleation is the removal of the eye that leaves the eye muscles and remaining orbital contents intact.
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Epithelioid sarcoma
Epithelioid sarcoma is a rare soft tissue sarcoma arising from mesenchymal tissue and characterized by epithelioid-like features.
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Ewing's sarcoma
Ewing's sarcoma or Ewing sarcoma is a malignant small, round, blue cell tumor.
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Fetus
A fetus is a stage in the prenatal development of viviparous organisms.
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Fibrosarcoma
Fibrosarcoma (fibroblastic sarcoma) is a malignant mesenchymal tumour derived from fibrous connective tissue and characterized by the presence of immature proliferating fibroblasts or undifferentiated anaplastic spindle cells in a storiform pattern.
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Fibular hemimelia
Fibular hemimelia or longitudinal fibular deficiency is "the congenital absence of the fibula and it is the most common congenital absence of long bone of the extremities." It is the shortening of the fibula at birth, or the complete lack thereof.
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Forequarter amputation
Forequarter amputation is amputation of the arm, scapula and clavicle.
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Foreskin
In male human anatomy, the foreskin is the double-layered fold of smooth muscle tissue, blood vessels, neurons, skin, and mucous membrane part of the penis that covers and protects the glans penis and the urinary meatus.
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Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo de Rivera (born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón; July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954) was a Mexican artist who painted many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.
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Frostbite
Frostbite occurs when exposure to low temperatures causes freezing of the skin or other tissues.
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Gangrene
Gangrene is a type of tissue death caused by a lack of blood supply.
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Genital modification and mutilation
The terms genital modification and genital mutilation can refer to permanent or temporary changes to human sex organs.
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Glossectomy
A glossectomy is the surgical removal of all or part of the tongue.
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Hemicorporectomy
Hemicorporectomy is a radical surgery in which the body below the waist is amputated, transecting the lumbar spine.
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Heterotopic ossification
Heterotopic ossification (HO) is the process by which bone tissue forms outside of the skeleton.
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Hugh Herr
Hugh Herr (born October 25, 1964) is an American rock climber, engineer, and biophysicist.
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Hyperbaric medicine
Hyperbaric medicine is medical treatment in which an ambient pressure greater than sea level atmospheric pressure is a necessary component.
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Iberomaurusian
The Iberomaurusian ("of Iberia and Mauritania"; it was once believed that it extended into Spain) or Oranian is a backed bladelet lithic industry found throughout North Africa.
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Improvised explosive device
An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action.
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Injury
Injury, also known as physical trauma, is damage to the body caused by external force.
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Iraq War
The Iraq WarThe conflict is also known as the War in Iraq, the Occupation of Iraq, the Second Gulf War, and Gulf War II.
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Jone Tawake
Jone Tawake (born 17 April 1982), is a Fijian born rugby union player.
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Krukenberg procedure
The Krukenberg procedure, also known as the Krukenberg operation, is a surgical technique that converts a forearm stump into a pincer.
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Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Legal system of Saudi Arabia
The legal system of Saudi Arabia is based on Sharia, Islamic law derived from the Qur'an and the Sunnah (the traditions) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Legal system of the United Arab Emirates
The judicial system in the United Arab Emirates is based on the British law, civil law system with influences from Islamic, French, Roman and Egyptian laws.
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Legal system of Yemen
Yemen's constitution is based on a combination of sharia, old Egyptian laws, and Napoleonic tradition.
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Ligature (medicine)
In surgery or medical procedure, a ligature consists of a piece of thread (suture) tied around an anatomical structure, usually a blood vessel or another hollow structure (e.g. urethra) to shut it off.
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Limb-sparing techniques
Limb-sparing techniques, also known as limb-saving or limb-salvage techniques, are performed in order to give patients an alternative to amputation.
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Liposarcoma
Liposarcoma is a cancer that arises in fat cells in deep soft tissue, such as that inside the thigh or in the retroperitoneum.
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Lying (position)
Lying, also called recumbency or prostration, or decubitus in medicine (from the Latin verb decumbere ′to lie down′), is a type of human position in which the body is more or less horizontal and supported along its length by the surface underneath.
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Mastectomy
Mastectomy (from Greek μαστός "breast" and ἐκτομή ektomia "cutting out") is the medical term for the surgical removal of one or both breasts, partially or completely.
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Melanoma
Melanoma, also known as malignant melanoma, is a type of cancer that develops from the pigment-containing cells known as melanocytes.
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Microsurgery
Microsurgery is a general term for surgery requiring an operating microscope.
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National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).
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Oscar Pistorius
Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius (born 22 November 1986) is a South African former sprint runner who was convicted of murdering his girlfriend in 2013.
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Osteomyelitis
Osteomyelitis (OM) is an infection of bone.
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Osteosarcoma
An osteosarcoma (OS) or osteogenic sarcoma (OGS) is a cancerous tumor in a bone.
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Penectomy
Penectomy is penis removal through surgery, generally for medical or personal reasons.
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Pete Gray
Peter J. Gray (born Peter James Wyshner; March 6, 1915 – June 30, 2002) was an American professional baseball outfielder who played for the St. Louis Browns of Major League Baseball in 1945, despite having lost his right arm in a childhood accident.
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Phantom eye syndrome
The phantom eye syndrome (PES) is a phantom pain in the eye and visual hallucinations after the removal of an eye (enucleation, evisceration).
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Phantom limb
A phantom limb is the sensation that an amputated or missing limb is still attached.
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Phantoms in the Brain
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (also published as Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind) is a 1998 popular science book by neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran and New York Times science writer Sandra Blakeslee, discussing neurophysiology and neuropsychology as revealed by case studies of neurological disorders.
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Polydactyly
Polydactyly or polydactylism, also known as hyperdactyly, is a congenital physical anomaly in humans and animals resulting in supernumerary fingers and/or toes.
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Prehistoric North Africa
The Prehistory of North Africa spans the period of earliest human presence in the region to the beginning of the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt in c. 3100 BC.
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Proprioception
Proprioception, from Latin proprius, meaning "one's own", "individual", and capio, capere, to take or grasp, is the sense of the relative position of one's own parts of the body and strength of effort being employed in movement.
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Prosthesis
In medicine, a prosthesis (plural: prostheses; from Ancient Greek prosthesis, "addition, application, attachment") is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, which may be lost through trauma, disease, or congenital conditions.
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Proximal femoral focal deficiency
Proximal femoral focal deficiency (PFFD), also known as Congenital Femoral Deficiency (CFD), is a rare, non-hereditary birth defect that affects the pelvis, particularly the hip bone, and the proximal femur.
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Punishment
A punishment is the imposition of an undesirable or unpleasant outcome upon a group or individual, meted out by an authority—in contexts ranging from child discipline to criminal law—as a response and deterrent to a particular action or behaviour that is deemed undesirable or unacceptable.
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Reciprocating saw
A reciprocating saw is a type of machine-powered saw in which the cutting action is achieved through a push-and-pull ("reciprocating") motion of the blade.
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Replantation
Replantation has been defined by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand as "the surgical reattachment of a body part, most commonly a finger, hand or arm, that has been completely cut from a person's body." According to the ICD-10-PCS, in the Medical and Surgical Section 0, root operation M, reattachment is the putting back in or on all or a portion of a separated body part to its normal location, or other suitable location.
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Rhinotomy
Rhinotomy is mutilation, usually amputation, of the nose.
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Ring finger
The ring finger is the finger on which it is the custom in a particular culture for a wedding ring to be placed during a wedding ceremony and on which the wedding ring is subsequently worn to indicate the status of the wearer as a married person.
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Robert David Hall
Robert David Hall (born November 9, 1947) is an American actor, best known for his role as coroner Dr. Albert Robbins M.D. on the television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
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Robotic prosthesis control
Robotic prosthesis control is a method for controlling a prosthesis in such a way that the controlled robotic prosthesis restores a biologically accurate gait to a person with a loss of limb.
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Ronnie Lott
Ronald Mandel Lott (born May 8, 1959) is a former American professional football player who was a cornerback, free safety, and strong safety in the National Football League (NFL) for fourteen seasons during the 1980s and 1990s.
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Rotationplasty
Rotationplasty is a type of autograft wherein a portion of a limb is removed, while the remaining limb below the involved portion is rotated and reattached.
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Rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.
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Sacrococcygeal teratoma
Sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT) is a type of tumor known as a teratoma that develops at the base of the coccyx (tailbone) and is thought to be derived from the primitive streak.
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Safety (gridiron football position)
Safety, historically known as a safetyman, is a position in American and Canadian football played by a member of the defense.
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Sandra Blakeslee
Sandra Blakeslee (born 1943) is an American science correspondent of over four decades for The New York Times and science writer, specializing in neuroscience.
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Sepsis
Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that arises when the body's response to infection causes injury to its own tissues and organs.
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Sex organ
A sex organ (or reproductive organ) is any part of an animal's body that is involved in sexual reproduction.
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Shaquem Griffin
Shaquem Alphonso Griffin (born July 20, 1995) is an American football linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL).
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Stump sock
Stump socks are tubular medical or clothing accessories with a blind end that are fashioned similar to socks, usually without a heel.
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Surgery
Surgery (from the χειρουργική cheirourgikē (composed of χείρ, "hand", and ἔργον, "work"), via chirurgiae, meaning "hand work") is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate or treat a pathological condition such as a disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance or to repair unwanted ruptured areas.
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Synovial sarcoma
A synovial sarcoma (also known as: malignant synovioma) is a rare form of cancer which occurs primarily in the extremities of the arms or legs, often in close proximity to joint capsules and tendon sheaths.
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Tammy Duckworth
Ladda Tammy Duckworth (born March 12, 1968) is an American politician and retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, serving as the junior United States Senator for Illinois since 2017.
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Tarsometatarsal joints
The tarsometatarsal joints (Lisfranc joints) are arthrodial joints in the foot.
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Team Zaryen
Team Zaryen is a Haitian Amputee soccer team, located in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Terry Fox
Terrance Stanley "Terry" Fox (July 28, 1958 June 28, 1981) was a Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist.
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Toe
Toes are the digits of the foot of a tetrapod.
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Vein
Veins are blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart.
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Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran (born 10 August 1951) is a neuroscientist known primarily for his work in the fields of behavioral neurology and visual psychophysics.
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1985 NFL season
The 1985 NFL season was the 66th regular season of the National Football League.
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References
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