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Catchers are almost invariably slow of foot simply from years of squatting, the leg muscles shortening with time.
xenobiology bombardment Ovonic TERMINAL AFFIXATIONS (18) xenate system SHORTENING + Africanity gamma decay WORD (8) audiophile heat pollution ambisextrous, channery, adj.
However Chicagoans spell it, the word is still a shortening from elevated (railway).
This shortening was also demonstrated by differential loss of signal from probe sets further away from the 3' end of the RNA, as shown with the Affymetrix control probe sets (Tables 1and 6), and by the progressive loss in probe sets detected as a function of their distance from the 3' end (Figure 4).
The left ventricular performance was estimated as the lower end of normal with a normal fractional shortening (42%) (Figure 2).