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References
- ↑ "Dorlands Medical Dictionary:cardinal signs".
- ↑ "Definition: functio laesa from Online Medical Dictionary".
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- ↑ Porth, Carol (2007). Essentials of pahtophysiology: concepts of altered health states. Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 270. ISBN 978-0-7817-7087-3.
- ↑ Dormandy, Thomas (2006). The worst of evils: man's fight against pain . New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. pp. 22. ISBN 0-300-11322-6.
- ↑ David Lowell Strayer; Raphael Rubin (2007). Rubin's Pathology: Clinicopathologic Foundations of Medicine 5th Edition. Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-7817-9516-6.
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