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EARLY DAWN [3 records]

Record 1 2024-12-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • Blood
  • Endocrine System and Metabolism
CONT

The dawn phenomenon refers to periodic episodes of hyperglycemia experienced by patients with diabetes in the early morning hours.

OBS

The dawn phenomenon does not discriminate between types of diabetes. Approximately half of those with either type 1 or type 2 experience it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Sang
  • Systèmes endocrinien et métabolique
CONT

[Le] phénomène de l'aube est [une] remontée spontanée de la glycémie en fin de nuit.

Spanish

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Record 2 1978-06-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Geology
OBS

Quite in contrast is the set of remains of Eoanthropus, the "dawn man", discovered at Piltdown in Sussex in deposits which may be equally early.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie économique
OBS

Nom donné par le paléontologiste anglais Arthur Smith à quelques ossements trouvés, en 1912, dans un terrain pléistocène, à Piltdown, près d'Uckfield (Sussex), et décrits par lui comme les restes d'un hominien très primitif.

Spanish

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Record 3 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astronomy

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astronomie

Spanish

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