foci
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The fasting mice had better blood values, less fatty liver and liver inflammation and above all: they developed less liver cancer and had fewer cancer foci in the liver.
From Science Daily • May 7, 2024
An ellipse is the set of all points in the plane the sum of whose distances from two fixed points, called the foci, is a constant.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
A line drawn through the foci intersect the ellipse in two points.
From Textbooks • May 6, 2020
The sun is one of the foci of the elliptical orbit.
From Textbooks • May 6, 2020
Even therapeutic measures have the important result not only of curing the patient but of reducing the foci of infection.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
