Matemática — Inglês

Read the following paragraph:



“Beethoven was 27 when he first noticed loss of hearing for high tones. This is too young either for circulatory disease or for syphilitic damage. Typhoid is more plausible.Without _______________ the composer’s temporal bones, no one can be certain. Those bones were missing when the skull was exhumed in 1863 and 1888. They must have been saved at the time of the original autopsy. The researchers concluded that perhaps in a forgotten cellar in Vienna a small-formalin-filled jar holds the answer”



The word to complete the paragraph correctly is…