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estrogenic

Promoting estrus. Of, relating to, caused by, or being an

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ethmoidal conchae

Sphenoidal

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expenditure

An expenditure is money spent on something. The word "Expenditure" is often used when people are talking about budgets. ... it is more than a long way of saying expense. In business, an expenditure implies an investment, something that will bring value over time.

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expulsion

The action of forcing something out of the body.

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external urethral sphincter

Are two muscles used to control the exit of urine in the

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face rostral

To describe how close to the head of an animal something is, three distinct terms are used: Rostral (from Latin rostrum, meaning 'beak, nose'), meaning situated toward the oral or nasal region, or in the case of the brain, toward the tip of the frontal lobe.

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facets

The one side of something many-sided, especially of a cut gem.

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faeces

Is the waste matter remaining after food has been digested, discharged from the bowels; excrement. (Also feces)

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fallopian tube

(In a female mammal) Either of a pair of tubes along which eggs travel from the ovaries to the uterus.

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farmsteads

A farmhouse and the buildings around it. Examples from the Corpusfarmstead: Surprisingly frequently, leys also pass exactly through important and isolated farmsteads often on a similar orientation to the main buildings.

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fascia

A thin sheath of fibrous tissue enclosing a muscle or other organ.

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fertigation

Is the injection of fertilizers, used for soil amendments, water amendments and other water-soluble products into an irrigation system. Fertigation is related to chemigation, the injection of chemicals into an irrigation system

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fertilised ovum

The diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and

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festuca elatior

Is grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns.

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fissures

Is a long, narrow opening, e.g. any of the spaces separating convolutions of the brain

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