peripheral

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Each year in the UK, there are around 100,000 hospital admissions due to heart attacks, another 100,000 people experience a stroke and around 350,000 people live with peripheral arterial disease.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Yet the weakest section of the memoir pertains to Mr. Junod’s grandmother—Lou’s mother—and her various misdeeds, including her peripheral involvement in a 1935 crime.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

Traore, who has been a peripheral player for Fulham this season, came through Barcelona's youth system before joining Aston Villa in 2015.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

As part of the project, the researchers are releasing what they describe as the world's largest publicly available collection of peripheral blood smear images, totaling more than half a million samples.

From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2026

Heredity cannot be a peripheral question in biology; it must rank among its central questions.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee