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LATIN
Lipid Assessment Trial in an Italian Network. A trial designed to assess the variation in total serum cholesterol during the course of MI with respect to infarct size and C-reactive protein level
Conclusion Variations in total serum cholesterol were more pronounced in patients with larger infarcts


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Schulz's poetic prose has its roots in Galician Polish, a language traced by the official Imperial Austrian German, fond of convoluted sentences and archaic-sounding Latinisms, yet rich and polyphonic, spiced with Yiddish wit, laced with Hasidic fantasy and echoing the musicality of Ukrainian, spoken in the countryside around Drohobych.
Orwell's use of Latinisms and classical references all but vanished; his previously colourful language dissolved into plain and lucid prose.
The medical profession has also greatly enriched English with Latinisms, a holdover from when Latin was the lingua franca among university students all across Europe.
 
 
 
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