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Crura Crural Cruro Crus

Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)

Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ CRURA   id+ | lat for THIGH LIKE |
          plural of CRUS   see> CROSS
~ CRURAL  id+ | see> GROIN |
          med> LATERAL AREA BETWEEN
               THE LOWER ABDOMEN and
               THE THIGH
          THE PUBIC AREA IS BETWEEN
          THE RIGHT AND LEFT GROIN
~ CRURO   id+ | lat for "OF THE THIGH" |
~ CRUS    med> LEG FROM KNEE TO FOOT
  lat  CRUS       or
       CRURA      or
       CRURALIS = of the LEG
       CRUX       or
       CRUCIS     A CROSS
  see> CRUSADE or ENTHUSIASTS or EXPLOITERS OF THE
       CROSS of CHRISTIANITY

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