Word: greeke
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Cold viruses have had millions of years to evolve different ways of infecting the cells that line the nasal passages. (The "rhino" of rhinoviruses comes from the Greek word for nose.) But it turns out that almost all the rhinoviruses use the same molecular doorway on the surface of the cell, a protein called ICAM-1, to gain entry to the upper-respiratory tract. Doctors have suspected since the late 1980s that if they could somehow flood the nose with decoy ICAM-1 molecules, they might be able to keep the rhinoviruses from attaching to the real thing...
...primary reason for the administration's poor response concerning fraternities is the MIT is dependent on its 39 Greek societies and independent living groups for housing its students. In an open letter to the MIT community addressing its collective tragedy, president Vest wrote that the Institute would immediately begin building new housing for its students, "with the goal of occupancy within three to four years...
...incident occurred at a celebration for pledges of the Greek society Phi Gamma Delta. Krueger reportedly consumed 16 drinks during the festivities...
...exception was the work of Galen, an immensely productive, Greek-speaking physician who lived much of his life in Rome. By the of his death around A.D. 201, the indefatigable Galen had written some 350 treatises detailing his own experimental work in anatomy and physiology. Although he added much to medical knowledge, his studies were based largely on monkeys and farm animals and thus were frequently unreliable in their conclusions about human anatomy. But the sheer prodigiousness of Galen's output and the aura of infallibility that surrounded him served to perpetuate his errors and stifle further research. His work...
...their contributions. Public demonstrations, the writing of treatises and books and the teaching of both colleagues and students became the vehicles for their individual crusades to better the state of medical care. Among them, like a constantly humanistic refrain playing softly in the background, the credo of the ancient Greek physicians prevailed. Nowhere is that principle more eloquently expressed than in the memorable words found in Precepts, one of the books of the Hippocratic Corpus: "Where there is love of humankind, there is also love of the art of medicine...