foci
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The fasting mice had better blood values, less fatty liver and liver inflammation and above all: they developed less liver cancer and had fewer cancer foci in the liver.
From Science Daily • May 7, 2024
The center must be the midpoint of the line segment joining the foci.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
Identify the center, vertices, co-vertices, and foci of the ellipse.
From Textbooks • Sep. 23, 2020
What can be said about the symmetry of the graph of an ellipse with center at the origin and foci along the y-axis?
From Textbooks • Sep. 23, 2020
Even therapeutic measures have the important result not only of curing the patient but of reducing the foci of infection.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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