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comb-like object

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  • What birds have instead is a strange structure inside their eye called the pecten oculi, which looks kind of like an old steam radiator dangling into the vitreous humor,...
  • Nonnullos occidit ingens suppuratio, decem autem excoriatis supersunt plerumque octo: hi pecten habent nullum, ventremque pallida tegit cutis.
  • The pecten is shaved either without or after using depilatories, of which more presently.
  • Here, however, Habk is a pennyroyal (mentha puligium), and probably alludes to the pecten.
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