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LEPTIN
- A protein that plays the major role in regulating body fat.
- Usage: Report on three severely overweight Turkish cousins who did not produce leptin.
Source: Frontiers in Bioscience.
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WHEREWITHAL
- The necessary means, especially financial means.
- Usage: Live press conference on a 7-year-old girl from Philadelphia who escaped from a vacant building after being abandoned there by her abductors.
Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.
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