[The various meanings of the term 'omnipotence']

L Barraquer-Bordas1

  • 1Servei de Neurologia, Hospital Universitari de la Sta Creu i St Pua, Barcelona, España.

Revista De Neurologia
|December 12, 2003
PubMed
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