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  2. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    Symptoms of infected flight rocks include a brief scar, followed by an open wound and a gaping hole as the rock dissolves. Eventually the sky ship drops clean out of the sky. Many theories abound on the origin of stone-sickness. Some people blame the gods. Others blame the Mother Storm, the mysterious meteorological creator of the Edge.

  3. Barringtonia asiatica - Wikipedia

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    It is a small to medium-sized tree growing to 7–25 m tall. The leaves are narrow obovate, 20–40 cm in length and 10–20 cm in width. Fruit produced as mentioned earlier, is otherwise aptly known as the Box Fruit, due to distinct square like diagonals jutting out from the cross section of the fruit, given its semi spherical shape form from stem altering to a subpyramidal shape at its base.

  4. Decompression sickness - Wikipedia

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    Decompression sickness should be suspected if any of the symptoms associated with the condition occurs following a drop in pressure, in particular, within 24 hours of diving. [76] In 1995, 95% of all cases reported to Divers Alert Network had shown symptoms within 24 hours. [ 77 ]

  5. Scurvy - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Without treatment, decreased red blood cells, gum disease, changes to hair, and bleeding from the skin may occur. [1] [3] As scurvy worsens, there can be poor wound healing, personality changes, and finally death from infection or bleeding. [2] It takes at least a month of little to no vitamin C in the diet before symptoms occur.

  6. Oceanic zone - Wikipedia

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    It is the region of open sea beyond the edge of the continental shelf and includes 65% of the ocean's completely open water. The oceanic zone has a wide array of undersea terrain, including trenches that are often deeper than Mount Everest is tall, as well as deep-sea volcanoes and basins. While it is often difficult for life to sustain itself ...

  7. Samara (fruit) - Wikipedia

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    A samara (/ s ə ˈ m ɑːr ə /, UK also: / ˈ s æ m ər-/) [1] is a winged achene, [2] a type of fruit in which a flattened wing of fibrous, papery tissue develops from the ovary wall. A samara is a simple dry fruit , and is indehiscent (not opening along a seam ).

  8. Tsetse fly - Wikipedia

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    The entire target area (Block 1, 2 and 3) has a total surface of 1,000 square kilometres (390 sq mi), and the first block (northern part) can be considered free of tsetse, as intensive monitoring has failed to detect since 2012 a single wild tsetse fly.

  9. African trypanosomiasis - Wikipedia

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    As of 2000, the disability-adjusted life-years (9 to 10 years) lost due to sleeping sickness are 2.0 million. [43] From 2010 to 2014, there was an estimated 55 million people at risk for gambiense African Trypanosomiasis and over 6 million people at risk for rhodesiense African trypanosomiasis. [ 44 ]