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Lucy has PAN—polyarteritis nodosa—an inflammatory process that affects many vessels in the body, particularly the larger blood vessels, or arteries.
After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010
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PAN also causes nodes nodosa to form in the branches of the circulatory system.
After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010
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The vegetation of 600-800 square kilometers (km2) of shallow water is vast expanses of seagrass, especially the eelgrass Zostera noltii in the intertidal zone and Cymodocea nodosa with Halodule wrightii in the subtidal zone.
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Amazonian upland elements include Acacia polyphylla, Ampelocera ruizii, and Cordia nodosa.
Beni savanna 2008
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Brassavola Little Stars, a cross of B. nodosa x cordata.
12/02/2005 2005
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One of the parents is B. nodosa, called "The Lady of the Night" because it too only gives off a scent at night.
12/02/2005 2005
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In a specimen of _Scrophularia nodosa_ examined by me one of the lateral buds on each of the cymes was represented, not by a flower, but by a tuft of leaves, the other buds being unchanged.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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"But the gout takes him, you said -- nodosa podagra, as my friend Ovid would say?"
In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang
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"Flowers of the most brilliant hues bedeck the rivers 'banks; above all, the _Lobelia cardinalis_ and _Lobelia syphilitica_, of the deepest carmine and cerulean tinge, the yellow _Cassia Marilandica_, and the delicate _Rosa blanda_, a rose without thorns; also the _Scrophularia nodosa_."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various
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St. Isidore (Etym., v, 27), "virga nodosa vel aculeata".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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