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  • "Distal" DVTs (clots that form in deep veins below the knee) affect about half of patients with severe trauma; "proximal" DVTs (clots that form above the knee) develop in one in five trauma patients.

    PLoS Medicine: New Articles T. Carter Chiasson et al. 2009

  • So here is the lowdown; I have broken the foot... in two spots... the Distal Tibia and the 2nd Metatarsal.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Sarah Moore 2009

  • This is why different levels of Proximate “I” shell off their differentiated levels of Distal “Me” as objective Intuitive identities, in evolving a first person overview of Who (States) and What (Structures) I am.

    Ken Wilber Guest Blog: Introducing the AQAL Cube (by Lexi Neale) William Harryman 2009

  • So here is the lowdown; I have broken the foot... in two spots... the Distal Tibia and the 2nd Metatarsal.

    The Foot: Day Nine Sarah Moore 2009

  • I've been noodling over this stuff for decades (on my site, click on Distal Muse, go to Archives, you can find a number of essays on some of this, particularly the recent Darwin Battle in Ohio).

    The Heirs of Job Hal Duncan 2006

  • Campbell, D.T. (1985), "Pattern Matching as an Essential in Distal Knowing."

    Evolutionary Epistemology Bradie, Michael 2008

  • Distal ulnar neuropathy: Meat packers, assembly-line workers and machine operators have had the most trouble.

    A Pain For Business 2008

  • ROBERTS: Distal clavicular excision, arthroscopic distal clavicular excision.

    CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2008 2008

  • Distal disease involving the trifurcations bilaterally in the lower leg, with no discernible flow within either the left dorsalis pedis or posterior tibial.

    Archive 2008-02-01 1 Dinosaur 2008

  • Distal disease involving the trifurcations bilaterally in the lower leg, with no discernible flow within either the left dorsalis pedis or posterior tibial.

    Clinical Case: Leg Pain (Part 2) 1 Dinosaur 2008

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