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Physiology: It's a Long Way Down

It's a Long Way DownAnatomy and PhysiologyThe Digestive SystemStops Along the WayIt's a Long Way DownJack-of-All-TradesRunning Along the TractPancreatic Panacea?What We Do with Our Food The…

Graham, Robert

(Encyclopedia) Graham, Robert, later Robert Cunninghame Graham, c.1735–1797, Scottish poet and politician. He is best known for the lyric “If Doughty Deeds My Lady Please.” He inherited sizable…

fat substitute

(Encyclopedia) fat substitute, substance used to replace dietary fat in the manufacture of foods. Fat substitutes are made in a variety of ways, mostly by manipulating natural food products such as…

category, in philosophy

(Encyclopedia) category, philosophical term that literally means predication or assertion. It was first used by Aristotle, whose 10 categories formed a list of all the ways in which assertions can be…

Waltrip, Darrell

(Encyclopedia) Waltrip, Darrell, 1947–, American auto racing driver, b. Owensboro, Ky. Waltrip drove on the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing circuit from 1972 to 2000, winning 84 Cup…

Alexander I, king of Scotland

(Encyclopedia) Alexander I, 1078?–1124, king of Scotland (1107–24), son of Malcolm III and St. Margaret of Scotland. He succeeded his brother Edgar, who had divided the kingdom so that Alexander…

Cumbernauld

(Encyclopedia) Cumbernauld, town, near Glasgow, North Lanarkshire, SW Scotland. Cumbernauld, the 15th of Britain's new towns, was designated in 1955 to…

Canonicus

(Encyclopedia) CanonicusCanonicuskənŏnˈĭkəs [key], c.1565–1647, Native North American chief, who ruled the Narragansett when the Pilgrims landed in New England. He granted (1636) Rhode Island to…

Aenesidemus

(Encyclopedia) AenesidemusAenesidemusēnĕsˌĭdēˈməs [key], Greek skeptic philosopher, fl. probably 1st cent. b.c. Thought to be a native of Knossos, Crete, he taught in Alexandria. Although his…