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more info Kantrex, n.
antibiotic (trade name Kantrex) used to treat severe infections
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more info Kaochlor, n.
salt of potassium (KCl) (trade names K-Dur 20, Kaochlor and K-lor and Klorvess and K-lyte); taken in tablet form to treat potassium deficiency
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more info Kaopectate, n.
trade name for a fixed-combination antidiarrheal drug that use kaolin as the adsorbent and pectin as the emollient
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more info Kaplan Group, n.
a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany; seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran
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more info Kaposi's sarcoma, n.
a sarcoma that starts with purplish spots on the feet and legs and spreads from the skin to lymph nodes and internal organs; a common manifestation of AIDS
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"until 1980 Kaposi's sarcoma occurred almost exclusively with Jewish or Italian or black men"
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more info Kaposi's varicelliform eruption, n.
a now rare complication of vaccinia superimposed on atopic dermatitis with high fever and generalized vesicles and papulovesicles
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more info Kapsiki, n.
a Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad
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more info Kara Kum, n.
a desert in Turkmenistan to the south of the Aral Sea
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more info Kara Sea, n.
part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia and to the east of the Barents Sea; icebound most of the year
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more info Karachi, n.
the largest city in Pakistan; located in southeastern Pakistan; an industrial center and seaport on the Arabian Sea; former capital of Pakistan
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more info Karaites, n.
a Jewish sect that recognizes only the Hebrew Scriptures as the source of divinely inspired legislation and denies the authority of the postbiblical tradition of the Talmud; the sect arose in Iraq in the eighth century
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more info Karakalpak, n.
the Turkic language spoken by the Karakalpak
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a member of a Turkic people living near Lake Aral in central Asia
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more info Karakoram, n.
a mountain range in northern Kashmir; an extension of the Hindu Kush; contains the 2nd highest peak
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more info Karakoram Range, n.
a mountain range in northern Kashmir; an extension of the Hindu Kush; contains the 2nd highest peak
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more info Karakorum Range, n.
a mountain range in northern Kashmir; an extension of the Hindu Kush; contains the 2nd highest peak
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more info Karbala, n.
a city of central Iraq to the south of Baghdad; a holy city for Shiite Muslims because it is the site of the tomb of Mohammed's grandson who was killed there in 680
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more info Karel Capek, n.
Czech writer who introduced the word `robot' into the English language (1890-1938)
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more info Karelia, n.
a region in Finland and Russia between the Gulf of Finland and the White Sea
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more info Karelian, n.
a Finnic language spoken by the people of Karelia
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a member of the Finnish people living in Karelia in northwestern European Russia
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more info Karelian Isthmus, n.
the isthmus between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga that connects Finland and Russia
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more info Karen, n.
the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands
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more info Karen Blixen, n.
Danish writer who lived in Kenya for 19 years and is remembered for her writings about Africa (1885-1962)
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more info Karen Danielsen Horney, n.
United States psychiatrist (1885-1952)
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more info Karen Horney, n.
United States psychiatrist (1885-1952)
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more info Karenic, n.
the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands
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more info Karl Adolf Eichmann, n.
Austrian who became the Nazi official who administered the concentration camps where millions of Jews were murdered during World War II (1906-1962)
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more info Karl Adolph Verner, n.
Danish philologist (1846-1896)
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more info Karl Alex Muller, n.
Swiss physicist who studied superconductivity (born in 1927)
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more info Karl Augustus Menninger, n.
United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1893-1990)
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more info Karl Baedeker, n.
German publisher of a series of travel guidebooks (1801-1859)
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