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Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A serpent twined around a staff. Perhaps representing a Guinea worm being wound out of a patient on a stick. Possibly related to the biblical account of the nehushtan.
Symbol
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- (medicine) The rod of Asclepius (a symbol associated with curative medicine).
- (astronomy, dated) An old symbol for asteroid 10 Hygiea; originally rendered with a star at the top:
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