"Researchers from the National Institutes of Health said Thursday the former NFL star's abnormalities are consistent with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE .",
"\u2014 Barry Wilner"
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": a genus of Upper Devonian and Lower Permian sharks related to Cladoselache and known chiefly from its very stout fin spines":[]
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"These parasitic amphipods bore to their host\u2019s stomach, sometimes in large enough numbers that the victim looks more like a strainer than a jellyfish or ctenophore . \u2014 Leslie Nemo, Scientific American , 8 June 2021",
"Mike Ford and Allen Collins spotted the ctenophore and recognized it as a new species. \u2014 Lauren M. Johnson, CNN , 28 Nov. 2020",
"Both papers, which employed more extensive data and more sophisticated analysis methods than the 2008 effort, support the ctenophore -first tree. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 25 Mar. 2015",
"Moroz and his collaborators published a second ctenophore genome, the sea gooseberry, in Nature in 2014. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 25 Mar. 2015",
"By far the most controversial of these changes was the suggestion that ctenophores should replace sponges as the earliest branch of animals. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 25 Mar. 2015",
"Comb Jellies Comb jellies aren\u2019t jellyfish, but a separate group called ctenophores which don\u2019t have numerous tentacles or pack a sting. \u2014 National Geographic , 30 June 2018"
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"New Latin, from cten- + Greek ak\u0113 point + New Latin -odon":""
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": relating or belonging to a ctenidium":[]
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": a structure consisting of a row of spines resembling the teeth of a comb on the head or thorax, or both, of certain fleas":[]
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"definitions":{
": a branch of biology that deals with the origin and development of acquired characters":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"cteto- (from Greek kt\u0113tos that may be acquired, from ktasthai to acquire) + -logy":""
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"definitions":{
"ancient city in central Iraq on the Tigris River opposite Seleucia; capital of Parthia":[]
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": spinules or teeth on the posterior margin of a ctenoid scale":[]
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"International Scientific Vocabulary, from Greek ktenoeid\u0113s , from kten-, kteis comb \u2014 more at pectinate":""
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": a family of large burrowing spiders \u2014 see trap-door spider":[]
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": an artificial group formerly regarded as an order that includes fishes with ctenoid scales and is more or less exactly coextensive with Acanthopterygii":[]
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"pronounciation":[
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220715-103032"
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"definitions":{
": a genus of Carboniferous dipnoan fishes whose dental plates have radiating tuberculated ridges":[]
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": an order of late Paleozoic dipnoan fishes with small and numerous cranial bones":[]
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"definitions":{
": a small phylum sometimes especially formerly considered a class of Coelenterata and consisting of widely distributed and at times very abundant marine hermaphroditic solitary animals that superficially resemble jellyfishes, are usually more or less ellipsoidal with decided biradial symmetry, and swim by means of eight meridional bands of transverse ciliated plates, each plate representing a row of large modified cilia \u2014 compare nuda , tentaculata , comb sense 4c ; venus's-girdle":[]
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"definitions":{
": a family of African rodents of uncertain systematic relationships that are distinguished by the presence of strong stiff bristles on the hind feet \u2014 see gundi":[]
