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ELK
(redirected from Irish elk)

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elk
a large deer; there are two species, the European elk (Alces alces) and the American moose (A. americana). The largest deer, 6 ft high at the withers and 2000 lb in weight, with a prominent Roman nose, an overhanging upper lip and a beard hanging from the lower jaw, brown body hair and white on the legs. The bulls have palmate antlers, the cows have no antlers.

elk lip
a blemish in a horse, a heavy, overhanging top lip.

ELK
Ears–nose and throat, lungs, kidneys An acronym for the organs involved in Wegener's granulomatosis–WG; limited WG spares the kidneys and lacks signs of systemic vasculitis; generalized WG involves the kidneys and/or has signs of systemic vasculitis; disease exacerbation is best monitored by measuring titers of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies by indirect immunofluorescence. See Wegener's granulomatosis.


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Moose are the largest deer species in the world, once matched in magnitude only by the now-extinct Irish elk, which looked more like a giant fallow deer rather than either an elk or a moose.
Byline: By PAT FLANAGAN THE Giant Irish Elk is on a list of the top 10 extinct beasts that could be brought back to life through DNA technology.
44 The extinct Irish elk Megaloceros had antlers up to 19 feet wide from tip to tip - true or false?
 
 
 
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