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  2. Upsilon - Wikipedia

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    The usage of Y in Latin dates back to the first century BC. It was used to transcribe loanwords from Greek, so it was not a native sound of Latin and was usually pronounced /u/ or /i/ . The latter pronunciation was the most common in the Classical period and was used mostly by uneducated people.

  3. Cornutiplusia circumflexa - Wikipedia

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    Cornutiplusia circumflexa, the Essex y, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from Italy to Greece , southeastern Europe , southwestern Russia , the southern parts of the Ural , Africa , Canary Islands , Arabia , southwestern Asia , Ceylon , from India to Nepal , southeastern China and Japan .

  4. Anatomical terms of location - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the "top" of a human is the head, whereas the "top" of a dog would be the back, and the "top" of a flounder may be on either the left or right side. Unique terms are also used to describe invertebrates as well, because of their wider variety of shapes and symmetry. [3]

  5. Axillary nerve - Wikipedia

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    The nerve lies at first behind the axillary artery, [4] and in front of the subscapularis, [1] and passes downward to the lower border of that muscle.. It then winds from anterior to posterior around the neck of the humerus, in company with the posterior humeral circumflex artery, [2] through the quadrangular space (bounded above by the teres minor, below by the teres major, medially by the ...

  6. Circumflex - Wikipedia

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    The circumflex is known as hirnod "long sign" or acen grom "crooked accent", but more usually and colloquially as to bach "little roof". It lengthens a stressed vowel (a, e, i, o, u, w, y), and is used particularly to differentiate between homographs; e.g. tan and tân, ffon and ffôn, gem and gêm, cyn and cŷn, or gwn and gŵn. However the ...

  7. Circumflex branch of left coronary artery - Wikipedia

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    The circumflex branch of left coronary artery (also known as the left circumflex artery or circumflex artery [citation needed]) is a branch of the left coronary artery. It winds around the left side of the heart along the atrioventricular groove (coronary sulcus). It supplies the posterolateral portion of the left ventricle. [1]

  8. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    The second is a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias. (Holding the mouse pointer on the hyperlink will pop up a summary of the symbol's function.); The third gives symbols listed elsewhere in the table that are similar to it in meaning or appearance, or that may be confused with it;

  9. Scapular anastomosis - Wikipedia

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    The scapular anastomosis is a system connecting certain subclavian artery and their corresponding axillary artery, forming a circulatory anastomosis around the scapula.It allows blood to flow past the joint in case of occlusion, damage, or pinching of the following scapular arteries: