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was formerly referred
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At some time in the past
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This was formerly referred to as fate".
The wild strain SAG 211-11 h was formerly referred to as Chlorella vulgaris but later reassigned as Chlorella kessleri (Fott and Nováková [1969]).
The species was formerly referred to Pluteus aurantiorugosus, with which it bears a close resemblance.
If you've not heard of DID before (I hadn't), you probably know it as multiple personality disorder, to which it was formerly referred.
This area was formerly referred to only as the Omaha Metropolitan Statistical Area and consisted of only five counties: Pottawattamie in Iowa, and Washington, Douglas, Cass, and Sarpy in Nebraska.
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Killer whales were formerly referred to as grampuses, but that term is now a synonym for Risso's dolphin.
These were formerly referred to as non-functioning islet cell tumours.
Although this syndrome has been formerly referred to as frontal lobe syndrome as dysexecutive symptoms are predominantly related to structural frontal lobe damage, research studies demonstrated that it may also involve cortical and subcortical regions outside the frontal lobe [ 1- 3].
Based on a limited similarity in amino acid sequence to the hemotoxic, desintegrin-like snake venoms, GSL1 and GSL2 were formerly referred to as Snakin-1 and Snakin-2 [ 2, 3].
The sea otter was formerly sometimes referred to as the "sea beaver", being the marine fur-bearer similar in commercial value to the terrestrial beaver.
Here, the connexin GJA1 might serve as an example which was formerly often referred to as CX43.
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