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Anemia Anemone Anemometer
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


~ ANEM~   prefix form gr ANEMOS = WIND  BREATH
                                  SPIRIT  GHOST
  RELATED TO ANIMUS and ANIMAL
  ply> | ANIMALS WITH ANEMIA CAN BE SHORT OF BREATH |
  continued see> ANEMO


~ ANEMIA  or ANAEMIA
          med> DENOTES LACK OF BLOOD or HEMOGLOBIN or Hb
  ANEMIA REDUCES OXYGEN CARRYING CAPACITY AND IS
  A CAUSE OF SHORTNESS OF BREATH  as in
  vern " SHORT WINDED "
  gr ANAIMIA = LACKING BLOOD     sug> PALLID
      HAIMA    BLOOD             sug> HEMATOLOGY
  sp  HEMO     BLOOD             sug> HEMORRHAGE
     ANIMO     COURAGE           sug> ANIMATED


~ ANEMO~  root to denote WIND BREATH SPIRIT GHOST
          gr ANE   = implies WIND    see> ANEM~
     BREATH  GHOST ANEMO   implies FLOWER LIKE
     APHERO  WIND FROM THE SOUTH from
     skt ANILAS    = BREATH
     sp  ANIMO       SPIRIT       sug> VALOR
     sc> ANEMOMETER  INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE WIND VELOCITY
     myth> THE BIRTH OF APHRODITE HAS TO DO WITH
           WIND SWEPT SEA FOAM
                see>  ADONIS  see> AFRICA  see> APHRODITE
~ ANEMOCHOROUS  biol> DISPERSED BY WIND
~ ANEMOMETER    sc>   INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE WIND VELOCITY
~ ANEMONE       symb> TRANSITORY
                myth> THIS PERISHABLE FLOWER IS THE
                      FLOWER OF ADONIS WHO PERISHED YOUNG
     see>  VENUS  see> APHRODITE
     hx> IN CHRISTIAN SYMBOLISMS ANEMONES DENOTE
         SIGNIFY THE BLOOD SHED BY THE SAINTS
     biol> SHORT LIVED "WIND FLOWER" or
           WINDFLOWER in MEXICO is found
     bot>   ANEMONE TUBEROSA and elsewhere
            ANEMONE SPHENOPHYLLA  ANEMONE EDWARDSIANA
            ANEMONELLA ANEMONOIDES  THE PLANT IS
            A SOURCE OF RANUNCULIN
            THAT CONVERTS INTO
~ ANEMONIN  biol> ANIMAL POISON
            med>  PLANT SUBSTANCE or even a POISON
                  WITH STRONG CARDIOVASCULAR AND
                  NERVOUS SYSTEM EFFECTS
~ ANEMOPHILY   biol> POLLINATION BY MEANS OF WIND
~ AMENOPHOBIA  med>  PHOBIA or FEAR OF DRAFTS or WIND
~ ANEMOTAXIS   biol> ORIENTATION BY ODOR
               hx>   A MOST DELICATE WILDFOWER
  ANEMONE IS FOUND IN THE US IN THE MOHAVE DESERT
  note FUMES FROM THE FRESH PLANT ARE HIGHLY IRRITATING
  hx> ANEMONE IS NAMED TO COMMEMORATE
      THE LOVE OF APHRODITE or VENUS FOR ADONIS
  myth> APHRODITE WAS BORN FROM FOAM OF THE SEA
        PRODUCED BY AFER or
  SOUTH WIND BLOWING FROM THE SOUTH or AFRICA
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