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Many of the names used by gaffers are simply shortened forms.
It seems obvious that people create shortened forms to save time.
Some shortened forms do make sense and are handy especially when the original name is rather long but some contortions are just too ridiculous.
Shortened forms of this life cycle are common, for example some oceanic scyphozoans omit the polyp stage completely, and cubozoan polyps produce only one medusa.
Linear DNA templates encoding shortened forms of pri-miR-19a, -miR-122 and -miR19am (e.g. Fig. 2B) were synthesized by IDT as single 5' phosphorylated Ultramer sequences.
Shortened forms may have more potential for routine clinical applications 18 19 but are not used widely.
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This shortened form of "May God greet you" is the standard "hello" of southern Germany.
dēbĭlis (old shortened form debil, v. Ritschl, Opusc. Phil. 2, 331), e, adj.
In shortened form, that gives 'Reichhattenhangelandritter', which sounds like the name of a piece of made-in-Germany welding equipment".
Dom Hofmann, the app's co-creator, introduced it on the company's blog, writing "Posts on Vine are about abbreviation the shortened form of something larger.
But some mutations lead to an altered or shortened form of the protein molecule that still works somewhat, resulting in only mild disease.
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