The blade has a rectangular tip, and the handle ends in a spherical bulb.
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Aspen Pflughoeft
July 4,
Miami Herald,
4 July 2025
In the case of sea silk, the structural coloration come from the layering of a spherical protein called photonin—one that becomes more vivid the more orderly the protein arrangement.
Some target the hair follicles or scalp specifically—like alopecia areata and discoid lupus erythematosus—while others (such as thyroid disease) affect another part of the body and can cause hair loss as one of many symptoms, Dr. Lo Sicco explains.
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Krissy Brady,
SELF,
5 Mar. 2024
The reasons for this discrepancy aren’t clear, but the answer could be tied to other discoid eczema risk factors.
Hanging from the ceiling are globular pendant lamps (from the French brand DCW Editions).
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Julie Lasky,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
The globular segments of the abstract piece, Complexing, could be a kind of smudging, a devolving, of the pregnant and engorged curvilinear silhouette of an earlier figurative sculpture, Monument.
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