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Vent Venti Ventilate Ventosity Ventose Ventral Ventricle Ventro Venture
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

~ VENT~      start see> WIND
^u           id+ | prefix for WIND |
             id+ | prefix for FORWARD or ANTERIOR thus
                   ABDOMEN  STOMACH or
                   BELLY or BELLOW WITH WIND | from
             lat VENTUS  = WIND
                 VENTER    BELLY  ABDOMEN
             sp  VENTRAL   ANTERIOR
             sp  VENTANA   WINDOW
~ VENTI      hx> in ATHENS a term for
                 SACRIFICES TO THE WINDS
             myth> AEOLUS  BOREAS  EURUS  NOTUS and
                   ZEPHYRUS etc WERE DEITIES known as
             " VENTI " leading to     sug> AIR AERATE
~ VENTILATE  id+ | TO EXAMINE OPENLY IN PUBLIC | from
             TO FAN or
             TO CIRCULATE AIR or GAS
~ VENTOSITY  id+ | FLATULENCE |
             also for EMPTY PRIDE or
                      OF NO SUBSTANCE or in
             vern> "FULL OF WIND "  or
                   "FULL OF GAS "
~ VENTOSE  hx>  WINDY FEBRUARY IN REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE
           med> A CUPPING GLASS  see> below
       sp VIENTO = WIND      sug> VENTILATE
          VIENTRE  ABDOMEN   see> VENTRAL
       biol> AN ORGAN OF ATTACHMENT BY SUCTION
       med>  THE MOUTH IS AN ORGAN OF
             ATTACHMENT AND SUCTION
       HUMANS BABIES ARE MAMMALS and SUCK MILK
       sp MAMONES = NURSING or SUCKERS
          MAMAR     SUCKLE or BREAST FEED
          MAMA      NIPPLE or MOTHER
       med> A VENTOSE or CUPPING GLASS WERE
            APPLIED TO THE SKIN AFTER WETTING THEIR
       INTERIOR WITH ALCOHOL AND IGNITING THEM AS
       THEY WERE APPLIED  THE BURNING OF THE ALCOHOL
       CREATED A VACUUM BY CONSUMPTION OF THE OXYGEN
       IN THE AIR THUS
       THE SKIN WAS "SUCKED" INWARD INTO THE VENTOSE
       THE IDEA WAS TO TRAP BLOOD BY STASIS
       MANY "VENTOSAS" COULD ACT AS A REVERSIBLE
       SUBSTITUTE FOR "BLEEDING" A PATIENT BY
       SEQUESTERION OF BLOOD IN THE SKIN WITHIN
       EACH CUPPING GLASS
       ANCIENTS AND NOT SO ANCIENTS
       BELIEVED THAT "BLEEDING" WAS
       BENEFICIAL IN PARTICULAR
             AS A CURE FOR PNEUMONIA
~ VENTRAL    lat VENTER    = or
                 VENTRALIS   BELLY
             sp  VIENTRE     ABDOMEN is VENTRAL
                 VIENTO      WIND
             lat VENTE       ABDOMEN or BELLY or BAG OF WIND
             ukr ZHYVIT      LIVING
       ply> | ABDOMEN or A CAVITY FOR WINDS |
       ply> | LIVING LOW IS LIKE TO BE
              MOVING WIND IN A VENTRAL CAVITY |
       med> VENTRAL IS ANTERIOR and opp to DORSAL
             sp   DORS = BACK
             ukr  SPYNA   SPINE
             note IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BACK PROTRUDE
                  THE SPINES OF THE VERTEBRA TO CONSTITUTE
             THE VERTEBRAL COLUMN
~ VENTRICLE  VARIOUS BODY CAVITIES
~ VENTRO~    prefix to denote ASSOCIATION WITH VENTRAL
~ VENTURE    to denote COURAGE as in        sug> ADVENTURE
             TAKING A CHANCE or CHANCE OF LOSS or RISK
  ply> | VENTURE AND ADVENTURE RELATE TO GUTS and call for
         WIND AND VENTURESOME VENTING OF VENTRAL VENTOSITY |
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