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Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital- Medicine Lodge(health)
bureau(dictionary)
bureau(medicine)
bureau(dictionary)
BUREAU(law)
bureau de change(dictionary)
Credit bureau(finance)
Service Bureau(money)
travel bureau(dictionary)

Opossums (medicine) and bureau (iou)


Opossums (medicine)


opossums
Marsupials of the family didelphidae. Opossums are common, omnivorous, largely nocturnal and arboreal mammals, grow to about three feet in length, including the scaly prehensile tail, have coarse grayish fur mingled with whitish hairs, and have an abdominal pouch in which the young are carried at birth. (webster, 3d ed)


bureau (iou)



bureau noun. , -s. L17.
[French (Old French burel), orig. = woollen stuff, baize (used for covering Writing-desks), prob. from bure var. of buire dark brown from Proto-Romance alt. of Latin burrus fiery red from Greek purros red.]
1. A Writing-desk with drawers for papers etc. L17.
b. A chest of drawers. N. Amer. E19.
2. An office, esp. for the transaction of public business; a department of public administration. L17.
b. An office or business with a specified function; an agency for the coordination of related activities, the distribution of information, etc. E20.
information bureau, Marriage bureau, etc. bureau de change an establishment at which customers can exchange foreign money.