locus
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Once growth hormone enters the system, it activates the locus coeruleus, a brainstem region that controls alertness, attention, and cognitive function.
From Science Daily
But in-home care was a locus of one alleged Minnesota fraud scheme.
Shortly after administration, levels of dopamine and its precursor levodopa increased, along with norepinephrine and its metabolite normetanephrine in the locus coeruleus-noradrenaline network.
From Science Daily
The barber chair, the locus of Sweeney’s revenge on the heartless cruelty of a Victorian London that wrecked his life, isn’t the elaborate contraption of other productions.
From Los Angeles Times
Would Washingtonians rather live next to a structure that looks like a gigantic Martian spaceship or a work of beauty that reflects the genius loci, the spirit of the place?
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