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Perforating this ecoregion are large areas of campinarana, a patchwork of broad-leaved meadows with dwarf shrubs, and isolated shrublands, both growing on bleached white-sand soils and subject to shallow and intermittent flooding.
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Perforating new conquerors over old ones with a blunt hammer, the remaining tags erased, shitted on, with strokes of red runny spray paint.
Their Dogs Came With Them Helena María Viramontes 2007
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Perforating the bowel during a colonoscopy, a rare but known risk, and failure to diagnose cancer, which the patient developed years after a colonoscopy, were the primary reasons for the suits.
Archive 2006-01-01 Kiva Oraibi 2006
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Perforating the bowel during a colonoscopy, a rare but known risk, and failure to diagnose cancer, which the patient developed years after a colonoscopy, were the primary reasons for the suits.
More on Dr. Gary Gottlieb Kiva Oraibi 2006
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_ -- Perforating wounds of the bladder are the injuries nearest akin to those we have just considered, but a great gulf separates them, in so far as the escape of a few drops or even a considerable quantity of normal urine does not necessarily mean peritoneal infection.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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_ -- Perforating wounds of the heart were probably fatal in all instances, in spite of the fact that, in some patients who survived, the position of wound apertures on the surface of the body made it difficult to believe that the heart had not been penetrated.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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Perforating is only practiced by a small number of species of insects, and many but not all of the perforators do so because their tongues are too short to reach the nectar by entering the flower.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various
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Perforating the skull in the centre of its course.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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Perforating wounds in which the bullet was retained within the articular cavity.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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Perforating fibers, human parietal bone, decalcified.
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