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ETYMOLOGY: 18c: from stereo - + Latin typus bas relief. from Chambers Dictionary.
The Underclass, Knives and Flip Flops! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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The account of the metamorphoses of the visceral arches in Amphibia forms only a small part of Reichert's memoir of 1838, the chief object of which was to discover the general "typus" of the vertebrate skull, and to follow out its modifications in the different classes.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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If toothy predators such as great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) are the pit bulls of the shark world, whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) have the temperament of Labrador retrievers.
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If toothy predators such as great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) are the pit bulls of the shark world, whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) have the temperament of Labrador retrievers.
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It was the first work of the Dientzenhofers in Franconia, and is inspired by the typus of the Jesuit church as it existed in Rome and Bavaria.
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The personality typus melancholicus was introduced in the early 1960s by a professor of clinical psychopathology from Heidelberg named Hubert Tellenbach.
Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010
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Even as the DSM diagnosis of depression became more widely employed around the world during the 1980s, the experience of deep sadness and distress in Japan retained the characteristics of the premodern conception of both utsushô and the mid-twentieth-century idealization typus melancholicus, the idea that overwhelming sadness was natural, quintessentially Japanese, and, in some ways, an enlightened state.
Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010
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The whale shark Rhincodon typus exists in the waters around Coiba National Park.
Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection, Panama 2009
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Most snakes occurring here are not poisonous, and those that are tend to be shy, as in the case of the boomslang (Dispholidus typus), which spends much of its time hunting birds and chameleons in the trees.
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The ichthyofauna includes nearly 85% of the reef fish species endemic to the west Indian Ocean region (399 species) including several commercially important endemics such as the slinger Charysoblephous puniceus. 991 species have been recorded. including summer aggregations of ragged-toothed shark Tiburon odontaspis and whale shark Rhynchodon typus.
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