| hypothalamic | (adjective) of or relating to the hypothalamus | - |
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| hypothalamically | (adverb) with respect to the hypothalamus | - |
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| hypothalamus | (noun) a basal part of the diencephalon governing autonomic nervous system | - |
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| ilama | (noun) whitish tropical fruit with a pinkish tinge related to custard apples; grown in the southern United States | - |
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| (noun) tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit | Synonyms: Annona diversifolia, ilama tree |
| inflame | (verb) become inflamed; get sore | - |
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| (verb) cause inflammation in | - |
| (verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, heat, ignite, stir up, wake |
| (verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, enkindle, kindle |
| (verb) catch fire | Synonyms: kindle |
| inflamed | (adjective) adorned with tongues of flame | - |
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| (adjective) lighted with red light as if with flames | Synonyms: ablaze, reddened |
| (adjective) resulting from inflammation; hot and swollen and reddened | - |
| inflaming | (noun) arousal to violent emotion | Synonyms: inflammation |
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| inflammability | (noun) the quality of being easily ignited and burning rapidly | Synonyms: flammability |
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| inflammable | (adjective) easily ignited | Synonyms: flammable |
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| inflammation | (noun) arousal to violent emotion | Synonyms: inflaming |
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| (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, ignition, kindling, lighting |
| (noun) a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat | Synonyms: redness, rubor |
| (noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitation, excitement, fervor, fervour |
| inflammatory | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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| (adjective) characterized or caused by inflammation | - |
| lam | (noun) a rapid escape (as by criminals) | Synonyms: getaway |
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| (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard | Synonyms: flail, thrash, thresh |
| (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
| lama | (noun) a Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism | - |
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| lamasery | (noun) a monastery for lamas | - |
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| lamb | (noun) young sheep | - |
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| (noun) the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food | - |
| (noun) a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child) | Synonyms: dear |
| (noun) a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters) | - |
| (verb) give birth to a lamb | - |
| lambast | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambaste |
| lambaste | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambast |
| lambchop | (noun) chop cut from a lamb | Synonyms: lamb-chop, lamb chop |
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| lambda | (noun) the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and lamboid sutures of the skull | - |
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| (noun) the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
| lambdacism | (noun) speech defect involving excessive use or unusual pronunciation of the phoneme `l' | - |
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| lambency | (noun) an appearance of reflected light | Synonyms: gleam, gleaming, glow |
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| lambent | (adjective) softly bright or radiant | Synonyms: aglow, lucent, luminous |
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| lambert | (noun) a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter | Synonyms: L |
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| lambkill | (noun) North American dwarf shrub resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; poisonous to young stock | Synonyms: Kalmia angustifolia, pig laurel, sheep laurel |
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| lambkin | (noun) a very young lamb | - |
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| lamblike | (adjective) like a lamb in meekness and gentleness | - |
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| lambrequin | (noun) short and decorative hanging for a shelf edge or top of a window casing | - |
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| (noun) a scarf that covers a knight's helmet | - |
| lambskin | (noun) the skin of a lamb with the wool still on | - |
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| (noun) skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on | Synonyms: parchment, sheepskin |
| lame | (adjective) pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness | Synonyms: feeble |
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| (adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: crippled, game, gimpy, halt, halting |
| (noun) a fabric interwoven with threads of metal | - |
| (noun) someone who doesn't understand what is going on | Synonyms: square |
| (verb) deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg | Synonyms: cripple |
| lamedh | (noun) the 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| lamella | (noun) thin plate | - |
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| (noun) a thin membrane that is one of the calcified layers that form bones | - |
| (noun) any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus | Synonyms: gill |
| lamellibranch | (adjective) bivalve | Synonyms: pelecypod, pelecypodous |
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| (noun) marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Synonyms: bivalve, pelecypod |
| lamely | (adverb) in a weak and unconvincing manner | - |
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| lameness | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gameness, gimp, gimpiness, limping |
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| (noun) an imperfection or defectiveness | - |
| lament | (noun) a mournful poem; a lament for the dead | Synonyms: elegy |
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| (noun) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person | Synonyms: coronach, dirge, requiem, threnody |
| (noun) a cry of sorrow and grief | Synonyms: lamentation, plaint, wail |
| (verb) regret strongly | Synonyms: bemoan, bewail, deplore |
| (verb) express grief verbally | Synonyms: keen |
| lamentable | (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, distressing, pitiful, sad, sorry |
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| lamentably | (adverb) in an unfortunate or deplorable manner | Synonyms: deplorably, sadly, woefully |
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| lamentation | (noun) the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief | Synonyms: mourning |
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| (noun) a cry of sorrow and grief | Synonyms: lament, plaint, wail |
| lamented | (adjective) mourned or grieved for | - |
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| lamenter | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: griever, mourner, sorrower |
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| lamenting | (adjective) vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression | Synonyms: wailful, wailing |
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| lamia | (noun) (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living | Synonyms: vampire |
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| lamina | (noun) a thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral) | - |
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| laminal | (adjective) arranged in or consisting of laminae | Synonyms: laminar |
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| laminar | (adjective) arranged in or consisting of laminae | Synonyms: laminal |
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| laminate | (noun) a sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers | - |
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| (verb) cover with a thin sheet of non-fabric material | - |
| (verb) press or beat (metals) into thin sheets | - |
| (verb) split (wood) into thin sheets | - |
| (verb) create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a bonding material | - |
| lamination | (noun) bonding thin sheets together | - |
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| (noun) a layered structure | - |
| laminator | (noun) Any of a range of machines used for lamination. | Synonyms: laminating machine |
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| (noun) a person who makes laminates (especially plastic laminates) | - |
| laminectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the bony arches on one or more vertebrae | - |
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| laminitis | (noun) inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse | Synonyms: founder |
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| lamivudine | (noun) a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor that is very effective in combination with zidovudine in treating AIDS and HIV | Synonyms: 3TC |
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| lammergeier | (noun) the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill | Synonyms: bearded vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, lammergeyer |
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| lammergeyer | (noun) the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill | Synonyms: bearded vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, lammergeier |
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| lamp | (noun) an artificial source of visible illumination | - |
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| (noun) a piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs | - |
| lampblack | (noun) a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink | Synonyms: carbon black, crock, smut, soot |
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| lamphouse | (noun) housing that holds a lamp (as in a movie projector) | Synonyms: lamp house, lamp housing |
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| lamplight | (noun) light from a lamp | - |
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| lamplighter | (noun) (when gas was used for streetlights) a person who lights and extinguishes streetlights | - |
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| lamplit | (adjective) lighted by a lamp | - |
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| lampoon | (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
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| (verb) ridicule with satire | Synonyms: satirise, satirize |
| lampooner | (noun) mimics literary or musical style for comic effect | Synonyms: parodist |
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| lamppost | (noun) a metal post supporting an outdoor lamp (such as a streetlight) | - |
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| lamprey | (noun) primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue | Synonyms: lamper eel, lamprey eel |
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| lampshade | (noun) a protective ornamental covering for a lamp, used to screen a light bulb from direct view | Synonyms: lamp shade, shade |
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| lampshell | (noun) marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide | Synonyms: brachiopod, lamp shell |
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| llama | (noun) wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump | - |
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| malamute | (noun) breed of sled dog developed in Alaska | Synonyms: Alaskan malamute, malemute |
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| melamine | (noun) a white crystalline organic base; used mainly in making melamine resins | Synonyms: cyanuramide |
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| midazolam | (noun) an injectable form of benzodiazepine (trade name Versed) useful for sedation and for reducing pain during uncomfortable medical procedures | Synonyms: Versed |
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| nonflammable | (adjective) impossible to ignite | - |
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| noninflammatory | (adjective) not inflammatory | - |
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| oriflamme | (noun) a red or orange-red flag used as a standard by early French kings | - |
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| (noun) an inspiring symbol or ideal that serves as a rallying point in a struggle | - |
| penicillamine | (noun) a drug (trade name Cuprimine) used to treat heavy metal poisoning and Wilson's disease and severe arthritis | Synonyms: Cuprimine |
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| phentolamine | (noun) a virility drug (trade name Vasomax) to treat erectile dysfunction in men | Synonyms: Vasomax |
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| phenylamine | (noun) oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines | Synonyms: aminobenzine, aniline, aniline oil |
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| phenylpropanolamine | (noun) an adrenergic drug used in many preparations to relieve allergic reactions or respiratory infections | - |
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| preeclampsia | (noun) abnormal state of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and fluid retention and albuminuria; can lead to eclampsia if untreated | Synonyms: pre-eclampsia |
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| proclamation | (noun) the formal act of proclaiming; giving public notice | Synonyms: promulgation |
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| (noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: announcement, annunciation, declaration |
| proinflammatory | (adjective) tending to cause inflammation | Synonyms: pro-inflammatory |
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| prolamine | (noun) a simple protein found in plants | - |
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| prothalamion | (noun) a song in celebration of a marriage | Synonyms: prothalamium |
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| prothalamium | (noun) a song in celebration of a marriage | Synonyms: prothalamion |
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| pyrilamine | (noun) antihistamine used to treat rhinitis and pruritus | - |
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| reclamation | (noun) rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course | Synonyms: reformation |
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| (noun) the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation | Synonyms: rehabilitation, renewal |
| (noun) the recovery of useful substances from waste products | - |
| salamander | (noun) any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed | - |
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| (noun) fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire | Synonyms: fire hook, poker, stove poker |
| (noun) reptilian creature supposed to live in fire | - |
| salamandriform | (adjective) shaped like a salamander | - |
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| salami | (noun) highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and beef usually dried | - |
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| scopolamine | (noun) an alkaloid with anticholinergic effects that is used as a sedative and to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils in ophthalmic procedures | Synonyms: hyoscine |
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| slam | (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot |
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| (noun) winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge | Synonyms: sweep |
| (noun) a forceful impact that makes a loud noise | - |
| (noun) the noise made by the forceful impact of two objects | - |
| (verb) strike violently | Synonyms: bang |
| (verb) close violently | Synonyms: bang |
| (verb) throw violently | Synonyms: flap down |
| (verb) dance the slam dance | Synonyms: mosh, slam dance, thrash |
| slammer | (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: clink, gaol, jail, jailhouse, pokey, poky |
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| (noun) a person who closes things violently | - |
| subthalamus | (noun) the ventral part of the thalamus | - |
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| sulfanilamide | (noun) a white odorless crystalline sulfa drug; the parent compound of most of the sulfa drugs | - |
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| sunlamp | (noun) a mercury-vapor lamp used in medical or cosmetic treatments | Synonyms: sun-ray lamp, sun lamp, sunray lamp |
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| telamon | (noun) a figure of a man used as a supporting column | Synonyms: atlas |
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| thalamocortical | (adjective) relating to or connecting the cortex and thalamus | - |
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| thalamus | (noun) large egg-shaped structures of grey matter that form the dorsal subdivision of the diencephalon | - |
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| thiodiphenylamine | (noun) a compound used primarily in veterinary medicine to rid farm animals of internal parasites | Synonyms: phenothiazine |
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| triazolam | (noun) a form of benzodiazepine (trade name Halcion) frequently prescribed as a sleeping pill; usually given to people who have trouble falling asleep | Synonyms: Halcion |
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| ulama | (noun) the body of Mullahs (Muslim scholars trained in Islam and Islamic law) who are the interpreters of Islam's sciences and doctrines and laws and the chief guarantors of continuity in the spiritual and intellectual history of the Islamic community | Synonyms: ulema |
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| unglamorous | (adjective) not challenging; dull and lacking excitement | Synonyms: commonplace, humdrum, prosaic, unglamourous |
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