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Impaction status is granted to those who have successfully demonstrated that there are more students than teachers can efficiently teach.
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"Impaction of the gallbladder causes this accumulation of bilious humors in the blood, which cause pain-and temporary derangement," he added authoritatively, pressing down harder as I thrashed to and fro.
Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992
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-- Impaction and inflammation are the two common diseases of the crop.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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_Impaction of foreign bodies_; _Compression of the gullet from without_; _Spasm of the muscular coat_; _Cardiospasm_; _Paralysis of the gullet_; _Diverticula_ or _pouches of the gullet_;
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Fracture through Base of Neck of Femur with Impaction 137 into the Trochanters
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Impaction of wax causes deafness only when the lumen of the auditory canal becomes completely occluded by the plug.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Impaction is less common than in fracture through the base of the neck; it usually results from the patient falling on the trochanter, the distal fragment being driven as a wedge into the proximal (Fig. 62).
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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_Epithelioma and Rodent cancer_; _Impaction of wax_; _Eczema_;
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Impaction -- of large intestine, cause of obstruction colic, symptoms and treatment, 68 of rectum with feces, 191
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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Impaction of the large bowels is to be diagnosed by a slight abdominal pain, which may disappear for a day or two to reappear with more violence.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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