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Water pollutants from a specific and known source.  

In intelligence testing, a test in which credit is given directly in terms of the number of items passed, age scale.  

Cross-sectional method.  

Descriptive of organisms that lack a means of maintaining their cytoplasmic temperature at a constant level, homoiothermophytic.  

The diagnosis and treatment of foot injury or disease, podiatrist. US the study of minor diseases and disorders of the feet. Medical specialty concerned with the foot and its structure and with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and disorders of the feet; also called, less correctly, chiropody. The branch of medicine concerned with the…

Doctors of Podiatric Medicine (DPM) make devices to correct problems, provide care for nails, prescribe certain drugs, and perform surgery on the foot. A health professional responsible for the examination, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and care of conditions and functions of the human foot. A podiatrist performs surgical and other operative procedures, prescribes corrective devices, and…

The act of the executive using veto power by leaving a bill unsigned or formally vetoed beyond the adjournment of the legislative body.  

Air in the pleural cavity. Air or gas in chest cavity. Collection of air or gas in the pleural space between the visceral and parietal pleurae of the lungs. Collection of air or gas in the pleural cavity, causing the lung to collapse. It may occur spontaneously but usually results from injury to the chest…

The surgical removal of a lung. The surgical removal of all or part of a lung. Surgical removal of a lung, usually to treat cancer. Surgical removal of an entire lung, usually performed to treat lung cancer. The surgical removal of a lung, performed as a treatment for lung cancer or when a lung has…

The most common life-threatening opportunistic infection diagnosed in AIDS patients is caused by a parasite, Pneumocystis carinii. A form of pneumonia found in people with impaired immune systems after radiotherapy or with AIDS. A subacute opportunistic infection marked by fever, nonproductive cough, tachypnea, dyspnea, and hypoxemia. It is caused by Pneumocystis carinii, the former name…