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In What Year Was It No Longer Legal to Sterilize

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In what year was it no longer legal to sterilize people deemed to have "mental retardation" in Alberta and British Columbia?


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-ectasis

A suffix used in medical terms to denote an expansion, dilation, or stretching of a structure or organ.

-staxis

A suffix used in medical terminology to denote bleeding or a hemorrhage, as in epistaxis (nosebleed).

-ptosis

A suffix indicating the prolapse, falling, or downward displacement of a body part.

Edematous

Referring to the condition of being swollen due to the accumulation of excess fluid in the tissues.

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