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Family violence

Agriculture; General agriculture

Deliberate, often repetitive, physical abuse by one family member against another: marital partners, parents, children, siblings, or any other member of a household.

Euphotic zone

Agriculture; General agriculture

Surface layer of a body of water where sufficient light penetrates to allow photosynthesis to occur, down to the depth at which the light intensity falls to 1% of incident light.

Casts (medical)

Agriculture; General agriculture

Dressings made of fiberglass, plastic, or bandage impregnated with plaster of paris used for immobilisation of various parts of the body in cases of fractures, dislocations, and infected wounds.

Benthic zone

Agriculture; General agriculture

The habitat at the bottom of a body of water, such as the sea floor or a lake bottom.

Ropiness

Agriculture; General agriculture

A condition in food products in which the overgrowth of certain bacteria cause a viscous, stringy slime.

Cytoplasmic polyhedrosis viruses

Agriculture; General agriculture

A group of entomopathogenic viruses that infect arthropods. According to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), CPVs are classified under the family Reoviridae and genus ...

Aster yellows

Agriculture; General agriculture

A disease of various plants, caused by phytoplasmas transmitted by leafhoppers, resulting in dwarfing and yellowing of the plant.

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