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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev

My immune system coating incoming pathogens with opsonins before they get eaten by phagocytes

aug 25, 2025, 10:22 pm • 35 4

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Shadetree Engineer @loonrman.bsky.social

The spice of life!

aug 26, 2025, 5:08 am • 0 0 • view
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev

You honestly learn so much by translierating the Latin and Greek. Phagocyte = a cell that eats Liposome = fatty blob Foramen magnum = massive hole Streptococcus = twisty berry

aug 26, 2025, 6:44 am • 30 4 • view
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Little Llama @littlellama.bsky.social

moron /ˈmɔːrɒn/ From Greek mōron, neuter of mōros ‘foolish’. Early 20th century (as a medical term denoting an adult with a low IQ).

aug 26, 2025, 7:53 am • 0 0 • view
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev

And Streptococcus pyogenes are 'pus-making twisty berries'

aug 26, 2025, 7:39 am • 12 1 • view
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Vaishnavi S @vaishs.bsky.social

Someone with better meme skills than me needs to do this, but I couldn’t resist!

The Homer Simpson drooling meme, where it says “Mmmmmm” on top and “Twisty Berry” at the bottom, but the Greek poet Homer’s face is overlaid onto the image
aug 26, 2025, 6:53 am • 2 0 • view