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Displacements of all kinds are frequent, but on account of the now greatly diminished weight of the uterus, these are insignificant.

From The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; a study in hygiene by Galbraith, Anna M. (Anna Mary)

Displacements which would be conspicuous in stars might easily escape detection in ill-defined, hazy masses.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

Displacements downwards of the stomach and transverse colon, along with a movable right kidney and associated with dyspepsia and neurasthenia, form the malady termed by Gl�nard enteroptosis.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

Displacements of Alluvium.—Many other remarkable evidences of compression were observed.

From A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Davison, Charles

Displacements, inversions, and therefore apparent contradictions must naturally lie in such a material.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely

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