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vt : to show or manifest <patients who symptoms of malaria> vi 1 a : to become manifest <Lyme disease often s with erythema chronicum migrans, fatigue, fever, and chills> <in other instances the first teeth do not before 10 months and even one year -H. R. Litchfield & L. H. Dembo> b : to come forward as a patient <he ed with grossly swollen ankles and large varicose veins -T. E. Greene> 2 : to become directed toward the opening of the uterus - used of a fetus or a part of a fetus <premature babies which by breech -Yr. Bk. of Obstetrics & Gynecology> .
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