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  2. Atherectomy - Wikipedia

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    Atherectomy is a minimally invasive technique for removing atherosclerosis from blood vessels within the body. It is an alternative to angioplasty for the treatment of peripheral artery disease , but the studies that exist are not adequate to determine whether it is superior to angioplasty. [ 1 ]

  3. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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    Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).

  4. List of -ectomies - Wikipedia

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    Vasectomy is the surgical occlusion of the vas deferens, tubes that connect to the male testes and transport sperm, a procedure for the purposes of sterilization in males. Vesiculectomy is the removal of all or part of the seminal vesicle. Vitrectomy is the removal of some or all of the vitreous humor from the eye.

  5. Arteriotomy - Wikipedia

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    Arteriotomy (or arterotomy) is a medical term for an opening or cut of an artery wall. [1] It is a common step in many vascular surgical procedures and operations. The corresponding term for an incision into a vein is a venotomy.

  6. Hyperforeignism - Wikipedia

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    Hyperforeignisms can manifest in a number of ways, including the application of the spelling or pronunciation rules of one language to a word borrowed from another; [4] an incorrect application of a language's pronunciation; and pronouncing loanwords as though they were borrowed more recently, ignoring an already established naturalized ...

  7. He (pronoun) - Wikipedia

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    He's referents are generally limited to individual male persons, excluding the speaker and the addressee. He is always definite and usually specific. Generic

  8. Phonetic transcription - Wikipedia

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    The pronunciation of words in all languages changes over time. [1] However, their written forms (orthography) are often not modified to take account of such changes, and do not accurately represent the pronunciation. Words borrowed from other languages may retain the spelling from the original language, which may have a different system of ...

  9. Ole (name) - Wikipedia

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    Ole Anderson, American wrestler; Ole Andreas Halvorsen, Norwegian hedge fund manager; Ole Barman, Norwegian novelist; Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Norwegian biathlete; Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Danish mathematician