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Observations on the effects of static and impact loading on the human femur

✍ Scribed by B.Sherwood Mather

Book ID
118326469
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1968
Tongue
English
Weight
429 KB
Volume
1
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-9290

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