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Shriki, Jabi E.; Shinbane, Jerold S.; Rashid, Mollie A.; Hindoyan, Antereas; Withey, James G.; DeFrance, Anthony; Cunningham, Mark; Oliveira, George R.; Warren, Bill H. (March 1, 2012). "Identifying, Characterizing, and Classifying Congenital Anomalies of the Coronary Arteries".
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facilitates the recovery of fallen animals by ensnaring them by the neck or leg. For this reason, the crook has been used as a religious symbol of care (particularly in difficult circumstances), including the Christian bishop's
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Gossman, David E.; Tuzcu, E. Murat; Simpfendorfer, Conrad; Beck, Gerald J. (January 1, 1988). "Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty for shepherd's crook right coronary artery stenosis".
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scene of a shepherd watching his flock with a shepherd's crook. This image represents copy B, printed and painted in 1789 and currently held by the
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that follows an unusually high and winding route. This variant, which has a prevalence of about 5%, imposes technical problems in
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Ancient Greeks called it κορύνη, λαγωβόλον and καλαῦροψ and in their art the crook is often seen in the hands of
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is a long and sturdy stick with a hook at one end, often with the point flared outwards, used by a
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originated as a representation of a shepherd's crook or goad, from which the Latin letter
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to manage and sometimes catch sheep. In addition, the crook may aid in
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In medicine, the term shepherd’s crook is used to describe a
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), Pedum
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Morris Eaves; Robert N. Essick; Joseph Viscomi (eds.).
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Johnson's SU-distribution
Crook-staff (Luwian hieroglyph)


shepherd
defending against attack
predators
drovers' road
hook
crosier
right coronary artery
angioplasty
lamed
L
Pan
Thalia
flail
Ramses II, with the heka crook. Museo Egizio, Turin.
Ramses II
heka
Museo Egizio
The crook and flail on the coffinette of Tutankhamun
crook and flail
Tutankhamun
William Blake's hand painted print for his poem "The Shepherd" depicts the idyllic scene of a shepherd watching his flock with a shepherd's crook. This image represents copy B, printed and painted in 1789 and currently held by the Library of Congress.
The Shepherd
idyllic
Library of Congress
Goad
Cattle prod

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