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Gon Gonad Gonia Gonoblast Gonorrhea
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

~ GON        gr   GONE = SEED or GENERATION
^            as in EPIGON = DESCENDANT
~ GONAD      id= | SOURCE OF SEEDS or EGGS or
                   OOCYTES or OVOCYTES or
                   SPERM or SPERMATOCYTES |
~ GONIA      gr GONY  = ANGLE            sug> KNEE
~ GONIUM     gr GONE  = PROCREATION      sug> SPERM  SIRE
~ GONO       gr GONOS = TO PROCREATE     sug> BEGET  SPAWN
~ GONOBLAST  gr BLAST = SHOOT OF GERM    sug> GERMINAL
~ GONORRHEA  med> id+ | FLUID FLOW or DISCHARGE FROM
                        GENITALIA |
  biol> med> GONO or THE GLAND THAT CAN
             GENERATE REPRODUCTIVE
  CELLS or GAMETES in contrast to all other
  CELLS that for BODY or SOMATIC PARTS
  GENERAL BODY CELLS are not capable of
  sexual cellular reproduction as in mammals who
  depend on A SPECIAL FORM OF CELL DIVISION or
  MEIOSIS or " REDUCTION " CELL DIVISION to make
  male SPERM or female OVUM or EGG WITH A FULL
  GENETIC COMPLEMENT BUT WITH EACH GENE PRESENT IN
  A SINGLE COPY or HAPLOID instead of the usual
  pair or double   one paternal one maternal gene
  or DIPLOID  in MEIOSIS the pair is reduced to one
  by the REDUCTION OF THE NUMBER OF CHROMOSOMES BY HALF
  in HUMANS FROM 46 to 23
  FERTILIZATION OF A HAPLOID EGG BEARING 23 CHROMOSOMES BY
  A HAPLOID SPERM RECONSTITUTES DIPLOIDY AND A
  THE SOMATIC 46 CHROMOSOMAL CYTOGENETIC COMPLEMENT
  also GONO RHEA for GONAD and FLOW or FLUID or FLOW
       DUE TO A VENEREAL INFECTION by GONOCOCCI or
  other BACTERIA or PARASITES
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