~ ROSA  id+ | PINK |
^u      name ROSE ROSALIND ROSABEL ROSY ROXANA
     hx> ROSELANA or
         ROXALANA or ROXANA
     famous woman probably of UKRAINIAN ORIGIN
     WHO WAS BELOVED BY SULTAN
     SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT
     skt ROSIS     = SHINE
                     A GENERIC INDOEUROPEAN TERM
                     FOR ROSE IS LACKING
     lat ROSA        ROSE
     gr  RHODON      same
     sp  ROSA BELLA  BEAUTIFUL ROSE
     ukr ROZA        ROSE
         ROZUM       WISDOM
         ROSYTY      MOISTEN
         ROSIA       RUSSIA
         ROSA        DEW
    sp   ROCIO       same
    ply> | WISDOM DEW AND ROSES MAY SHINE RADIANTLY |
    biol> genus ROSA
          A FLOWER OF MANY DELICATE VARIETIES
    lit+ ROSA DAMASCENA for DAMASCUS
         ROSA GALLICA       FRENCH etc
    myth> ukr ROSA BOZHA is GODLY MILK or DEW
          gr  sug> HERSE AGLAUROS and
              sug> PANDOROS personify
           FERTILIZING DEW
~ ROSACEA  med> ERYTHEMA or REDDENING or CONGESTION
                OF FACIAL AND PARTICULARLY NASAL SKIN
    may EVOLVE INTO ACNE ROSACEA or ROSACEA KERATITIS
    GRANULOMAS and even INFECTIOUS PUSTULES
    MOST PRONE TO APPEAR ON THE NOSE and cause
          THICKENING OF THE NOSE or RHINOPHYMA due to
          OVERGROWTH OF CONNECTIVE TISSUE
~ ROSARY  or in sp ROSARY  popular name Inca CITIES
          hx> GARLAND FOR CROWNING THE VIRGIN MARY and
              BEADS FOR COUNTING PRAYERS as in
     " SAYING HAIL MARYS "
     med> NODULES  RESEMBLING A STRING OF BEADS
          AS ARE THE PROTRUSIONS OF THE SPINE
          ONE SIGN OF RACHITISM or RICKETS
          in gr RACHIS = SPINE
~ ROSE       POPULAR FEMININE NAME
~ ROSEMARY   name to recall VIRGIN MARY
             hx> DURING THE 16-18TH CENTURIES
     CHRISTIANS MADE THE ROSE
     AN EMBLEM OF DISCRETION as in
     SUB ROSA for SECRETLY or at least DISCREETLY
     sc>   ROSE OF WINDS is a SCHEMATIC CIRCLE FOR
           A MAGNETIC COMPASS
           hx> ROSE WINE or LIGHT RED WINE
~ ROSEOLA  med> or EXANTHEMA SUBITUM or
                SUDDEN RASH
           akin but not the same as MEASLES
~ ROSETA   diminutive of ROSA
           in sp FACIAL BLUSH  also A SIGN IN A BUTTON LIKE SHAPE
           hx> IN GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE A CIRCULAR WINDOW CONSISTING
               OF MANY COLORED GLASS PANELS
~ ROSETTA  or
~ ROSETTE  LITTLE ROSE  or ROSE LIKE
           med> CELLS CLUSTERED IN CIRCLES
  hx>  DURING WORKS TO STRENGTHEN A FORTIFICATION
       AT A PLACE ON THE NILE CALLED ROSETTA FRENCH
  TROOPS UNEARTHED A LARGE FLAT BLACK POLISHED STONE NOTED
  TO BE INSCRIBED IN THREE DIFFERENT SCRIPTS
  THE IMPORTANCE OF THE DISCOVERY WAS GRASPED IMMEDIATELY
  THE CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH IN GREEK INDICATED THAT ALL
  THREE TEXTS CARRIED THE SAME MESSAGE
  THE STONE BECAME KNOWN AS THE ROSETTA STONE
  IN 1802 AFTER THE BRITISH DEFEATED THE FRENCH IN EGYPT
  THE STONE WAS "CONFISCATED" AND TAKEN TO LONDON
  WHERE IT RESTS TO THIS DAY IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
  THE CREDIT FOR UPHOLDING CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS
  BY NAPOLEON BONAPARTE AND NAPOLEON III ARE UNDIMINISHED
  BY THEIR MILITARY DEFEATS
  THE FRENCH MILITARY EXPEDITION TO EGYPT OF 1798
  INCLUDED A COHORT OF 151 YOUNG SCIENTISTS WHO LATER
  GAVE RISE TO THE INSTITUTE OF EGYPT and
  HAD DIRECT INLUENCE ON IDEAS REGARDING
  EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION plus
  GENETIC EVOLUTION and see> TERATOLOGY
  Jean Baptiste FOURIER [#] IS CREDITED FOR THE TYPE OF
  ANALYSIS that helped in 1822 Jean Francois CHAMPOLLION [#]
  TO DECIPHER THE CORRESPONDENCE OF HIEROGLYPHIC DEMOTIC AND
  GREEK ANTIQUE INSCRIPTIONS
  IN 1850 TRANSLATION OF WHOLE TEXTS WERE PRODUCED
  AND FRENCH SCIENTISTS COMPILED ONE OF THE LARGEST
  SCIENTIFIC ENCYCLOPEDIAS IN HISTORY CONSISTING OF
  700O PAGES AND 837 COPPER ENGRAVINGS
  biol> AMONG THE FRENCH SCIENTISTS IN EGYPT
        WERE TWO DISTINGUISHED NATURALISTS
  Etienne Geoffroy SAINT HILAIRE [#] and
  Jules Cesar Lelorgne DE SAVIGNY [#]
  Geoffroy SAINT HILAIRE [#] concluded that
  DIFFERENCES AMONG VERTEBRATES REPRESENTED
  VARIATIONS ON A UNITARY PLAN in ANTICIPATION OF DARWIN
  see> GENETICS EVOLUTION
  HILAIRE FRAMED EARLY CONCEPTS REGARDING
  ENVIRONMENTAL CAUSES OF BIRTH DEFECTS   sug> TERATOGEN

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