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lyssa

 [lis´ah]
former term for rabies. adj., adj lys´sic.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

lys·sa

(lis'ă)
1. A cartilage in the tongue of the dog.
2. Old term for rabies.
[G. madness]
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Beginning with his older sister Cersei--a reasonable stand-in for his dead mother, Joanna--as the dark or "evil mother" configuration, Tyrion subsequently faces other versions of the evil mother in Lyssa and Caitlyn Stark, who both, like Cersei, try to kill him.
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The Senior Manager of the Year award went to Marco Jetmir Ndrecaj of Conduit, with Tracy Riley from Principality Building Society highly commended; Lyssa Edwards of CGI and Nicky Hopkins of HSBC were joint winners of the Contact Centre Manager of the Year award; Leon Hughes of Dwr Cymru Welsh Water won Support Manager of the Year; and Helen Cuthbert of BT and Lottie Gent of Virgin Atlantic Airways shared the Team Leader of the Year award.
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But Greek conceptions of dog also dwell on the possibility of degeneration into a wolf; when afflicted by lyssa (a term also derived from the word lykos that means "wolf") the dog becomes subject to losing loyalty or control of cognitive capacities that transform it.
The fruit bats are important reservoirs of many pathogens, some of which have been reported to be associated with many diseases like rabies (Paez et al., 2003), European lyssa virus (Fooks et al., 2002), Hendra (Halpin et al., 2000) and Menangle (Bowden et al., 2001) in Australia, Nipah and Tioman viruses in Malaysia (Chua et al., 2002a, b) and hantaviruses in Korea (Kim et al., 1994; Chua et al., 2005).
Attending the bride as matrons of honor were Jenna Dear and Lyssa Weatherly.
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