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El Centro Regional is not a tertiary or quaternary care center, meaning it’s not a hospital with extensive specialty service or care.

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And the bones of man himself appear, extending through what is known as the Quaternary or Pleistocene period.

Subspeciation has been enhanced by the late Quaternary mountain building which was prevalent over the western United States.

A distinct species characterised the Quaternary deposits of South America.

The Tertiary and Quaternary formations are partly of marine and partly of terrestrial and fresh-water origin.

The Post-tertiary or Quaternary division comprises the concluding chapters of geological history.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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