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escapee

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A popular term for an older relative of one at risk for Huntington’s disease, who did not develop the disease
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escapee

A popular term for older relatives of those at risk for Huntington's disease, who didn't develop the disease. See Huntington's disease.
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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He argued that there was the possibility of more traumatic experience for the escapees, in the event that the International Organisation for Migrants withdraw its services, even as their continued stay as stranded escapees was not good for the image of Nigeria as a country.
Prison officers have also been accused of applying excessive force in their hunt for the inmate after a Standard Two girl was injured in a door-to-door search for the escapee last Tuesday.
The remaining escapees who are still on the loose are Ariel Villacampa, Richard Manatad, Jason Daniel and Roland Ramirez.
The court had also ordered to initiate proceedings to declare the brothers as escapee.
When Matt failed to comply, the Border Patrol agents shot and killed him, even though the escapee fired no shots of his own, the superintendent said.
The vessel was eventually traced by children of the original escapees.
He said there was no indication the escapee went in the direction of the school.
Grahame Madge, spokesman from the RSPB, said: "It is thought this bird is an escapee. In the wild this particular bird can be found in Egypt, central Asia and Turkey.
SALAH AL-DIN / Aswat al-Iraq: Police forces on Thursday recaptured an escapee following intelligence reports about his whereabouts in Dalouiya district, according to a local official.
HUNDREDS of schoolchildren were confronted by the horrors of genocide as a Holocaust escapee and fellow students recounted their experiences.
Former Old Bailey bomber and prison escapee Gerry Kelly could be in line for a senior cabinet post in the next Northern Ireland power sharing government, it emerged last night.
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