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2. Coffin - Wikipedia

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   First attested in English in 1380, [citation needed] the word coffin derives from the Old French cofin, from Latin cophinus, which means basket, [5] which is the latinisation of the Greek κόφινος (kophinos), basket. [6] The earliest attested form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek ko-pi-na, written in Linear B syllabic script. [7]

3. Cephalon - Wikipedia

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   Cephalon, Inc. was an American biopharmaceutical company co-founded in 1987 by pharmacologist Frank Baldino, Jr., [1] neuroscientist Michael Lewis, and organic chemist James C. Kauer—all three former scientists with the DuPont Company.

4. Sutton Hoo purse-lid - Wikipedia

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   The Sutton Hoo purse-lid is one of the major objects excavated from the Anglo-Saxon royal burial-ground at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England. The site contains a collection of burial mounds, of which much the most significant is the undisturbed ship burial in Mound 1 containing very rich grave goods including the purse-lid.

5. Manhole cover - Wikipedia

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   A manhole cover is a removable plate forming the lid over the opening of a manhole, an opening large enough for a person to pass through that is used as an access point for an underground vault or pipe. It is designed to prevent anyone or anything from falling in, and to keep out unauthorized persons and material.

6. Epiglottis - Wikipedia

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   The folding backwards is a complex movement the causes of which are not completely understood. [2] It is likely that during swallowing the hyoid bone and the larynx move upwards and forwards, which increases passive pressure from the back of the tongue; the aryepiglottic muscles contract; the passive weight of the food pushes down; and the ...