ARRIERS
\ɐɹˈi͡əz], \ɐɹˈiəz], \ɐ_ɹ_ˈiə_z]\
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The rear of an army; the back. Arriere-ban, a general proclamation of the French kings, by which not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of the latter, were summoned to take the field for war; the troops thus collected. Arriere-fee or fief, a fee or fief held of a feudatory. Arriere-vassal, the vassal of a vassal.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Idiopathic Hypercatabolic Hypoproteinemias
- series of gastrointestinal disorders which share in common excessive loss protein, mainly albumin, across gut wall. occur stomach (Menetrier disease), as well the small bowel (intestinal lymphangiectases, assorted inflammatory states). They are also occasionally associated with congestive heart failure (again a bowel protein loss).