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Byrrhidae is the Pill Beetles family of insects of the order Coleoptera. They have oval or rounded, convex bodies and in many cases the appendages can be completely withdrawn for protection against predators. The larvae live mostly on the ground feeding on moss roots.
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Byrrhus (the Pill Beetle) is a genus of comparatively (six to ten millimetres long) Pill Beetles (Byrrhidae).
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Cytilus is a genus of Pill Beetles (Byrrhidae).
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Miscodera is a genus of beetles of the ground beetle family, Carabidae.
Miscodera arctica is a species with a large head (similar in appearance, though the head is not so broad, as Broscus cephalotes) and short feelers found in Britain and Europe on sandy ground moss where it hunts the larvae of the pill beetle. It ranges from 6 to 8 mm long.
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Simplocaria is a genus of Pill Beetles (Byrrhidae).
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Acetohexamide is a medicine used to lower the level of glucose in the blood given to some people with non-insulin-dependent diabetes in pill form.
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Formerly (certainly as late as 1905), a blue-pill was a preparation of mercury for medicinal use. It consisted of two parts by weight of mercury triturated with three parts of conserve of roses until it lost its globular form. This was mixed with one part by weight of liquorice root powder, so that 5 grains of the mixture contained 1 grain of mercury.
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A bolus is a soft round mass of some medicinal substance larger than a pill, intended to be swallowed at once.
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Noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) is the most common form of diabetes mellitus; about 90 to 95 percent of people who have diabetes have NIDDM. Unlike the insulin-dependent type of diabetes, in which the pancreas makes no insulin, people with noninsulin-dependent diabetes produce some insulin, sometimes even large amounts. However, either their bodies do not produce enough insulin or their body cells are resistant to the action of insulin. People with NIDDM can often control their condition by losing weight through diet and exercise. If not, they may need to combine insulin or a pill with diet and exercise. Generally, NIDDM occurs in people who are over age 40. Most of the people who have this type of diabetes are overweight. Noninsulin- dependent diabetes mellitus used to be called 'adult-onset diabetes,' 'maturity-onset diabetes,' ' ketosis- resistant diabetes,' and 'stable diabetes.' It is also called type II diabetes mellitus.
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Midwives is a drama starring Sissy Spacek, Peter Coyote, Terry Kinney, Alison Pill and Piper Laurie in a story about a midwife accused of manslaughter after she performs an emergency caesarean section on a seemingly dead woman. Midwives was directed by Glenn Jordan in 2001.
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