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Lab Week 6 (exam 2) Flashcards

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What is anterior/ ventral?

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Front view of the body

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What is posterior/ dorsal?

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Back view of the body

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What is proximal?

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Closer to the trunk of the body

For arms and legs

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What is distal?

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Further away from the trunk of the body

For arms and legs

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What is medial?

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Closer to the midline of the body

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What is lateral?

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Farther away from the midline of the body

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What is superior?

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Up towards the head

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What is inferior?

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Down towards the feet

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What is the anatomical position?

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Anterior view of the body palms pointed forwards

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What is sagittal?

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Cuts body following the midline

Ends up with right and left part

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What is mid sagittal?

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The cut follows the midline

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What is parasagittal?

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Cut is a little left or right of the midline

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What is frontal/ coronal section?

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Forms a right angle

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What is transverse/ cross/ x section?

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Horizontal cut of the body ends up with top and bottom piece

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15
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What foramen (foramina)?

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A whole with nerve or/ and blood vessels passing through typically in skull but could be other places

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What is a foramen magnum?

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Large whole bottom of skull where spinal cord passes through

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17
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What is a fossa?

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A depression

Ex: taking a piece of clay and sticking finger in

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What is sulcus (sulcui)?

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Longated depression groove

Ex: pencil holder in desk

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What is compact bone?

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Thick and solid

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What is canaliculi?

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Cracks running through lamella connecting chamber together

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What is lamella (lamellae)?

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Rings in circles

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What is lacuna (lacunae)?

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Chambers the cells live in

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What is osteocytes?

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Cells living in the chambers

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What is the Haverism (osteonic/ central) canal?

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Holds blood vessels and nerve of aversion system

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What is Volkmann’s (perforating) canal?

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Inside of end of bone that allow blood vessels to enter or leave

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What is osteoblast?

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Immature bone cells

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27
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What is osteon?

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Cylinder structure that have osteocytes connected by canaliculi that transport blood

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What is a sesamoid type of bone?

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Not born with it

Forms with tendon

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What is epiphysis (epiphyses)?

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End of long bone

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What is diaphysis (diaphyses)?

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Middle of long bone

Shaft

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What is medullary (marrow) cavity?

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Inside of bone

Bone marrow

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32
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What is periosteum?

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Sheet of connective tissue wraps around the bone

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33
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What does peri mean?

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Around

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34
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What is trabeculae?

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Splinter like rod of bone tissue that characterizes spongy bone

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35
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What is the axial skeleton?

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Forms axes of the body

Most structures are not paired

Includes the skull, vertebral column, ribs and breast bone (sternum)

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36
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What is the appendicular skeleton?

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Attached to axial skeleton

Forms limbs and limb girdles (skeletal attachment to the axial skeleton)

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37
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What are examples of limb girdles?

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Scapula- shoulder blade

Clavicle- collar bone

Oscoxa- pelvis

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38
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Where is the frontal cranial bone located?

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Most anterior bone

Forehead

39
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Where is the temporal cranial bone?

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Cheek to above the ear

40
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Where is the parietal cranial bone?

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Side of head above temporal

41
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Where is the occipital cranial bone?

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Back of head by neck

42
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Where is the sphenoid cranial bone?

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Back of the eye

43
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Where is the ethmoid cranial bone?

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Deep nasal cavity

44
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What does the coronal do?

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Divide frontal and parietal bones

45
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What does the sagittal do?

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Divides parietal in two parts (right and left)

46
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What does the squamosal do?

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Divides parietal and temporal bone

47
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What does the lambdoidal do?

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Divides parietal and occipital bone

48
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What is the sinuses?

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Hollow chamber inside the skull

49
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What is the external auditory meatus?

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Tubelike opening

Ear canal

50
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What is the mastoid process?

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Vampire fang bone connecting to the neck

51
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What is the styloid process?

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Icicles or little vamp teeth behind fangs

52
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What is the foramen magnum?

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Large whole where spinal cord passes

53
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What is the occipital condyle?

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Sides of foramen magnum that look like a vagina

54
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What is the Stella turcica of the sphenoid?

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Depression between a sphenoids

55
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What is the crista galli of the ethmoid?

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Part of ethmoid that faces the brain

56
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What is the cribriform plate of the ethmoid?

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Right and left of the crista galli

57
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What is the zygomatic arch?

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Side of cheekbone

58
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What is zygomatic?

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Cheekbone in front under eyes

59
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What is the palatine?

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Upper palate bone

The back of the roof of the mouth

60
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What is the maxilla?

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Upper jaw between nose and upper lip

61
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What is the palatine process?

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Front of roof of mouth

62
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What is the mandible?

63
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What is the nasal bone?

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Bone on top of nose

Right in midline of nose

64
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What is the cervical?

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Back of head to shoulders (neck) part of spine

65
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What is the atlas?

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First cervical vertebra (C1)

66
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What is the axis?

A

Second cervical vertebra (C2)

67
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What is the Odontoid process (den)

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Called the no bone

Tooth inside bone

2nd vertebrae

68
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Where is the thoracic part of the spine?

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Spine from shoulders to end of ribs

69
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Where is the lumbar part of the spine?

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End of ribs to pelvic bone

70
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Where is the sacrum part of the spine?

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The bone that connects to the pelvis

71
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Where is the coccyx (coccygeal)?

72
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What is the vertebral foramen?

A

Space spinal cord passes through spine

73
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What is the centrum (body) of the vertebrae?

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Posterior side of spine

74
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What is the transverse process?

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Bones that stick out under transverse foramen

75
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What is the spinous process?

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Anterior side of spine

Pointy side of spine

76
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What is the intervertebral foramen?

A

Side wholes of spine

77
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What are the intervertebral discs?

A

Things between the centrums

78
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What are the primary curvatures?

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Thoracic and pelvic curvature

79
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What are the secondary curvatures?

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Cervical and lumbar curvatures

80
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What is the sternum?

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Bone in between boobs

81
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What is the manubrium?

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Top part of the sternum

82
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What is the gladiolus (body) of the sternum?

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Middle part of sternum

83
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What is the xiphoid process?

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End part of sternum

84
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What are the true ribs?

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Numbers 1-7

Connects front and back ribs individually

85
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What are false ribs?

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Numbers 8-10

Connect altogether front to back

86
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What are floating ribs?

A

Numbers 11 and 12

Just back ribs no front rib connecting together

87
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What is costal cartilage?

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Connects ribs to sternum

Things popping out of sternum

88
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What is a lacrimal?

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Bone where lacriminal canal wholes are

89
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What is the lacriminal canal?

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Tiny wholes where tears drain through nasal cavity and why you blow your nose

90
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What is a vomer?

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Part of nasal septum all the way in the back

Back part of nasal septum

91
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What is the nasal septum?

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Wall of nasal separating the right and left side

92
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What is the hyoid?

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Skeletal anchor for the tongue

Under tongue

93
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What are digit numbers?

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Used to describe which toes or fingers you’re talking about

Big toes and thumbs= digit one
Pinkies= digit 5

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