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- The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries
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- A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light
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- A disorder of digestive function characterized by discomfort or heartburn or nausea
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- The property of excessive fatness
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- A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram
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- The organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body
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- Nutrient in meat and beans that builds muscle
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- Either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates (plural)
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- A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color
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- Organ that pumps blood around the body
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- Any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules (plural)
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- An animal sterol that is normally synthesized by the liver
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- The marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals
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- Any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism
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- The vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
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- Red liquid pumped around the body by the heart
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