H for Healthcare – #atozchallenge

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“A Brilliant Conspiracy” Episode 8.

Blurb & other Episodes


 


Healthcare, insists Jamila, keeps life meaningfully noble.


Obtaining perpetrators’ quiddity easily, requires forensic DNA sequencing techniques unrivalled by victimology.


Accusers weakly crack, “Xanthippe, yet zaftig goddess.”


Glossary:


Quiddity         1. Philosophy – the inherent nature or essence of someone or something.


2. a distinctive feature; a peculiarity.


Xanthippe       ill-tempered woman


Zaftig              having a full, rounded figure


 


Archibald’s ‘Horse of the Day’


http://www.paulaura.com/betgloss.htm


Hickstead allows me some Hedging, with a showjumper changing the House rules. [After finishing a round, Hickstead died of an aortic rupture]


 


Jamila’s ‘Daily Poison’


http://www.britannica.com/science/poison-biochemistry/Types-of-poison#ref396648


Honeybee (Apis species);


Distribution: worldwide;


Toxic principle: neurotoxin, hemolytic, melittin, hyaluronidase, phospholipase A, histamine, and others;


Symptoms: sting produces acute local pain or burning sensation, blanching at the site of the sting surrounded by a zone of redness, and itching; local symptoms usually disappear after 24 hours; severe cases may develop massive swelling, redness, shock, prostration, vomiting, rapid heartbeat, respiratory distress, trembling, coma, and death; it is estimated that 500 stings delivered in a short period of time can provide a lethal dose to a human; bees kill more people in the United States than do venomous reptiles.


 


Word Links


http://www.wordfind.com/


http://phrontistery.info/glossaries.html


http://www.enchantedlearning.com/wordlist/adverbs.shtml


https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/prepositions-list.htm


 


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The Challenge runs over 26 days – with Sundays off for good behaviour – and each day will be based on the alphabet, from A through to Z.


Read more about the Challenge I set myself in my Theme Reveal:


Blogging from A to Z Challenge Theme Reveal 2016


For more on the Blogging from A to Z Challenge and to visit the other brave bloggers, go to the official site and this linky list.


 


 


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