mu

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Herman looked forward to having one of these that he could stuff and send to his uncle in Cincinnati, who wrote that he had never seen such a bird Also, he spent a lot of time down on the crick flat looking for a mu, which is the same as a sneeze-duck, except for the parallel stripes.

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  1. noun The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet. See Table at alphabet.

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  • God bless you and give you Light and Peace Peace is something more than joy, Even the joys above; For peace, of all created things, Is likest Him we love Transcriber's note: The Greek phrase in the above paragraph was transliterated as follows: emathen —epsilon, mu, alpha, theta, epsilon, nu; aph —alpha, phi; on —emega, nu; epathen —epsilon, pi, alpha, theta, epsilon, nu This letter may appear cold to you. —  Letters to his Friends
  • I had taught the juniors no, it had been the sixth-graders that year with Kelly the Chinese phrase mu. —  WorldsEnough ;Time
  • "In clinical trials, NUCYNTA (TM) provided patients with effective pain relief and was shown to have fewer of the gastrointestinal side effects often reported with prescription pain medications that act on mu-opioid receptors," said Perry Fine, M.D., —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • Like other drugs with mu-opioid agonist activity, NUCYNTA (TM) is contraindicated in patients with significant respiratory depression, acute or severe bronchial asthma or hypercapnia in unmonitored settings or in the absence of resuscitative equipment. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • Respiratory depression is the primary risk of mu-opioid agonists. —  Health News from Medical News Today
 

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  1. Greek, of Phoenician origin; see my2 in Semitic roots.
 

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