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Os
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

~ OS        id+ | MOUTH or OPENING |
            also OS and
            pl   OSAE = BONE  BONY  SKELETON
            sp   HUESO  BONE   see> BONFIRE
            continued see> OSSARIUM
            ply> | THOSE WHO OPEN THEIR OS
                   SEEK TO BE SSEN AS ORACLES |
~ OS~       prefix for above
            sug> GASTROSTOMY      sug> COLONOSTOMY
~ OSTIUM    biol> med> CAVITY
~ OSTOMY    med> SURGICALLY MADE OPENING
~ OSCULATE  id+ | TO KISS |       see> KISS
            id+ | TO BRING TOGETHER |
            lat OSCULATUS OSCULARI for
            LITTLE MOUTH
~ OSCULUM   id+ | CURVE |
            sc> in mathematics TWO SYMMETRIC CURVES
  THAT TOUCH thus have same TANGENT and CURVATURE
  see> OSSARIUM for further issues of OS = BONE
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