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- ↑ Lippincott's Medical dictionary (Lippincott, 1906), p. 920.
- ↑ William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith (editors), The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, Volume 8 of The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: With a New Atlas of the World; a Work of General Reference in All Departments of Knowledge. Volume 8 of The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: With a New Atlas of the World (The Century co., 1911), 5733.
- ↑ The American Illustrated Medical Dictionary (Saunders, 1922), p. 933
- ↑ Robley Dunglison; Richard James Dunglison (ed.), A dictionary of medical science (Lea Brothers & Co., 1895), 282.
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