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#86799 - 11/12/02 04:59 PM acromegaly
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	In early days of TV, there was a wrestler that got paid mostly for being extremely grotesque as result of acromegaly. I can't remember his name, and can't find it on Internet, though I found names of successors with same disease. Hell of a way to make a living. Of course if the bouts were not phony, he'd have been killed. acromegaly P.S. The acromegalic wrestler was called The Angel. n. 5Fr acromegalie: see ACRO3 & MEGALO36a disease in which there is enlargement of the bones of the head, hands, and feet, resulting from an overproduction of growth hormone that is caused, usually, by a tumor in the pituitary ac#ro[me[gal4ic 73m! gal4ik8 adj.
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#86800 - 11/13/02 11:07 AM Re: acromegaly
Fiberbabe old hand Registered: 01/12/01 Posts: 771 Loc: Portland, Oregon	There ya go, Dr. Bill. Maurice Tillet. http://www.madheads.com/angelnew.htm
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#86801 - 11/13/02 11:40 AM Re: acromegaly
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	Thanks, Fiberbabe. Since he did a good deed, I won't call Oakeley an "ath hole".
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