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Page 105
... incubation- sleeping in the temple in the hope that the god would send an enlightening dream - and hepatoscopy - examining the entrails , particularly the liver , of a lamb or kid sacrificed for a divinatory purpose , to read what the ...
... incubation- sleeping in the temple in the hope that the god would send an enlightening dream - and hepatoscopy - examining the entrails , particularly the liver , of a lamb or kid sacrificed for a divinatory purpose , to read what the ...
Page 312
... incubation is most common , there are other patterns : egg capsules are pro- duced by Turtonia minuta ; a brood chamber is plastered to the shell of the palaeotaxodont Nucula delphinodonta ; and in members of the Carditidae the female ...
... incubation is most common , there are other patterns : egg capsules are pro- duced by Turtonia minuta ; a brood chamber is plastered to the shell of the palaeotaxodont Nucula delphinodonta ; and in members of the Carditidae the female ...
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... incubation period of years was shown to be the cause . This and similar agents are known as slow viruses , although they have properties quite distinct from those of conventional viruses . Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease is a rare cause of ...
... incubation period of years was shown to be the cause . This and similar agents are known as slow viruses , although they have properties quite distinct from those of conventional viruses . Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease is a rare cause of ...
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