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noun
1.
A radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding curium with alpha particles.  Synonyms: atomic number 98, californium.
2.
The most common congenital disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in a single gene; no cure is known.  Synonyms: cystic fibrosis, fibrocystic disease of the pancreas, mucoviscidosis, pancreatic fibrosis.
adverb
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Compare (used in texts to point the reader to another location in the text).  Synonym: cf..






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... 9ca: Parallel in general plot to the above, save that she is led by the lover to an open grave and there slain. (Cf. 5, page 28.) ...
— A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs • Hubert G. Shearin

... Note 2, page 95.—Cf. Hegel's fine vindication of this function of contradiction in his Wissenschaft der Logik, Bk. ii, sec. 1, chap, ...
— A Pluralistic Universe - Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the - Present Situation in Philosophy • William James

... No doubt some forms of Quakerism (for in it, as in every form of mystic theology, there were many varieties) lost sight almost altogether of any idea of atonement. Cf. British Quarterly, October 1874, 337; C. Leslie, 'Satan Disrobed.'—Works, ...
— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton

... could not exist as a system of nature; hence that maxim cannot possibly exist as a universal law of nature, and consequently would be wholly inconsistent with the supreme principle of all duty. [Footnote: On suicide cf. further Metaphysik der ...
— Literary and Philosophical Essays • Various

... fishery so lucrative and so easy. The number of vessels engaged in it is increasing rapidly. Four years ago there were but four or five. Last year there were seventeen.* (* Note 25: It will be remembered that Bass intended to engage in the New Zealand fishery. Cf. chapter 9.) I shall have occasion to return to ...
— The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders • Ernest Scott


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