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Estro Estrus Estrous Estrogen
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

~ ESTRO     or             see> ESTIVATE
~ ESTRUS    id+ | REPRODUCTIVE "HEAT" | or
            id+ | MAD DESIRE |
     lat AESTUS   = BURNING  SCORCHING
         AESTIVARE  SUMMER EXISTENCE
     sp   ESTIVAL   SUMMER SEASON
     lat  OESTRUS   or
     gr   OISTROS   POETIC DELIRIUM  also
                    GADFLY or ANYTHING THAT
                    CAUSES VEHEMENT DESIRE
     note | DESIRE IS FEMININE |
     lit+ expression
          "SOME ANIMALS ESTIVATE ON TRESS ... "
     biol>  ESTRUS in female animals is
            the period of SEXUAL ARDOR
            in sp ARDOR = BURN as in vern " HEAT "
            note see> ESTIVATE
~ ESTROGEN  or
~ ESTROUS   or ESTROUS CYCLE
~ ESTRUS    or
            except for WOMEN in most ANIMALS
  THE eSTRous cycle is reSTRicted TO A
  MATING SEASON
  note below comments regarding STR
  med> FEMINIZING HORMONAL COMPOUNDS
       eg ESTRIOL  ESTRONE etc
  ESTROGENS may cause SKIN STRIA or
  STREAKS in STRIATED patterns
  note how STR is a TRIPLET found in
       words denoting which lead to
  other DISTANT DOMAINS or
  CONSTRICTING IDEAS as in   see> STR~
  CONSTRAIN                       STRANGE
     STRICTNESS                   STRINGENCY
     STRANGULATION                STRABISMUS
    EXTRAVAGANCE                  STREET
     STRIDOR                      STRIDE
     STRYCHNINE                   STROMA
   INSTRUCT                     DESTRUCTIVE
     STRUCTURE                    STRATEGY
     STRAIN                       STRAND
     STRATUM                      STREAK
     STRIPE                       STREAM
     STRENGTH                     STREPHO
     STREPTOCOCCUS                STROBE
     STROKE                       STRUCK
  ply> | above STR STResses how eSTRogen can not only
         diSTRact but STRain STRides and reSTRict STRingently
         alike to a deSTRuctive STRychinine |
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