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A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.
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A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.
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A name applied to the amorphous or crystalline mass obtained from bile by the action of alcohol and ether. It is composed of a mixture of the sodium salts of the bile acids.
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A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not of organic, origin.
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A name given to fluor spar in Derbyshire, where it is used for ornamental purposes.
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A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (aesculus) as the horse chestnut.
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