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Trophin Trophoblast Tropism Tripanosoma Turning Gonaotropin Gonatrophin
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

~ TROPHIN      implies "TO NURTURE or FEED"
~ ~TROPHIN     prefix  as in GONADOTROPHIN
~ TROPHOBLAST  gr BLASTOS = TISSUE
               biol> med> EXTRAEMBRYONIC TISSUE
     IT ATTACHES THE OVUM TO THE UTERINE WALL
     skt  TRAPATE   ASHAMED as TURNS AWAY
     ukr  TRIPATY   TO SHAKE
     med> TROPISM   TURNING
     perhaps TURPITUDE is from gr TREPEIN
     note    TRIPANOSOMA implying  TWISTED
     hx> Edgar DEGAS [#] visited NEW ORLEANS
         during December 1872 and the
     temperature reached 80 degrees
          lit+ in a letter he noted
           " ONE DOES NOTHING HERE
             IT LIES WITH THE CLIMATE ..."
~ TROPIN   gr TROPOS = A TURNING
~ ~TROPIN  biol> med> implies AFFINITY FOR
           note       GONADOTROPIN
  note contrast with  GONATOTROPHIN  see> TROPHIN
 
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