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the passage through which the nerve and blood vessels leave the root of the tooth.
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a thin hairlike outgrowth of an epidermal cell of a plant root that increases the surface area...
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the part of the lung where the bronchi, bloodvessels and nerves enter and leave the lungs.
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the osmotic pressure that develops within the cells of a root system that causes the sap to rise...