FIGURES OF SPEECH
\fˈɪɡəz ɒv spˈiːt͡ʃ], \fˈɪɡəz ɒv spˈiːtʃ], \f_ˈɪ_ɡ_ə_z ɒ_v s_p_ˈiː_tʃ]\
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This subject belongs more particularly to grammar and rhetoric, but the law has its figures also. Sometimes fictions come in aid of language, when found insufficient by the law; language, in its turn, by means of tropes and figures, sometimeslends to fictions a veil behind which they are hidden; sometimes the same denominations are preserved to things which have ceased to be the same, and which have been changed; at other times they lend to things denominations which supposed them to have been modified.
By John Bouvier
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Platidiam
- An inorganic water-soluble platinum complex. After undergoing hydrolysis, it reacts DNA produce both intra interstrand crosslinks. These crosslinks appear to impair replication and transcription of DNA. The cytotoxicity cisplatin correlates with cellular arrest in G2 phase cell cycle.
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