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Acid rain
Rain resulting from the combination of fossil fuel emissions and water in the atmosphere. The environmental effects of acid rain include the acidification of lakes and streams, damage to trees at high altitude, the acceleration of decay in…
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Show more- Melanoma, intraocular See: Intraocular melanoma
- Chickenpox vaccination See Chickenpox immunization
- Cyst, thyrolingual See: Thyroglossal cyst
- Osteoblast A cell that makes bone. It does so by producing a matrix that then becomes mineralized. Bone mass is…
- Frontal lobe The part of each hemisphere of the brain located behind the forehead that serves to regulate and mediate the…
- Q.3h. On a prescription, every three hours
- Tension, intravenous The pressure of the blood within a vein, the venous pressure
- Digit A finger or toe
- Hemoglobin F Normal fetal hemoglobin, the predominant type of hemoglobin in the fetus and newborn. The F stands for Fetal.
- Sulcus A groove, crevice, or furrow. In medicine, there are many sulci (plural of sulcus) as, for example, the…
- Klumpke paralysis See: Klumpke palsy
- CC chemokine receptor 5 See: CCR5