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Uterine — Pertaining to the uterus.
Vibration — In the esoteric sciences, all beings are considered to have an
energetic quality, known as their vibration.
Virus — Any of a group of minute infective and disease-producing agents
consisting of a core of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) enclosed in a protein
shell. Viruses are acellular and able to function and reproduce only if they
can invade a living cell to use the cell’s system to replicate themselves. In
the process they may disrupt or alter the host cell’s own DNA.
Vitamin — Any of a number of organic compounds, essential in small quan-
tities for the normal functioning of the body.