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  2. Commagene - Wikipedia

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    Commagene ( Greek: Κομμαγηνή) was an ancient Greco-Iranian kingdom ruled by a Hellenized branch of the Iranian Orontid dynasty that had ruled over Armenia. [4] The kingdom was located in and around the ancient city of Samosata, which served as its capital. The Iron Age name of Samosata, Kummuh, probably gives its name to Commagene.

  3. Online service provider - Wikipedia

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    A new class of online service provider arose to provide access to the Internet, the internet service provider or ISP. Internet-only service providers like UUNET, The Pipeline, Panix, Netcom, the World, EarthLink, and MindSpring provided no content of their own, concentrating their efforts on making it easy for nontechnical users to install the ...

  4. List of broadband providers in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Largest Internet providers in the United States. AT&T Internet Services. Charter Communications. Comcast High Speed Internet (also known as Xfinity) Consolidated Communications (including FairPoint Communications and SureWest) Cogent Communications. Cox Communications. Frontier Communications.

  5. List of managed DNS providers - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of notable managed DNS providers in a comparison table. A managed DNS provider offers either a web-based control panel or downloadable software that allows users to manage their DNS traffic via specified protocols such as: DNS failover, dynamic IP addresses, SMTP authentication, and GeoDNS . Provider. Domicile.

  6. Portal vein - Wikipedia

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    The portal vein or hepatic portal vein ( HPV) is a blood vessel that carries blood from the gastrointestinal tract, gallbladder, pancreas and spleen to the liver. This blood contains nutrients and toxins extracted from digested contents. Approximately 75% of total liver blood flow is through the portal vein, with the remainder coming from the ...

  7. Prodigy (online service) - Wikipedia

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    Prodigy Communications, L.P. Prodigy Communications Corporation was an online service from 1984 to 2001 that offered its subscribers access to a broad range of networked services. It was one of the major internet service providers of the 1990s. The company claimed it was the first consumer online service, citing its graphical user interface and ...

  8. Primary care physician - Wikipedia

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    A patient having his blood pressure measured. A primary care physician ( PCP) is a physician who provides both the first contact for a person with an undiagnosed health concern as well as continuing care of varied medical conditions, not limited by cause, organ system, or diagnosis. The term is primarily used in the United States.

  9. Portal hypertensive gastropathy - Wikipedia

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    The first is the use of beta-blockers, which reduce portal pressures. Non-selective beta blockers (such as propranolol and nadolol) have been used to decrease the pressure of the portal vein in patients with esophageal varices, and have been shown to regress portal hypertensive gastropathy that has been worsened by medical treatment of varices.