General science

General science

A variety of science subjects concerning the fundamental knowledge about different aspects of our world and their underlying principles.

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A mammal classified in the order Xenarthra along with anteaters, tamanduas, and armadillos. The sloth differs from all other mammals by having additional articulations (xenarthrales) between their ...

Hodgkin's disease

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A malignant lymphoid neoplasm, usually arising in lymph nodes characterised by morphological heterogeneity and bizarre giant tumour cells referred to as Reed-Sternberg cells. The aetiology of ...

Weather map

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A map or a series of maps that is used to depict the evolution and life cycle of atmospheric phenomena at selected times at the surface and in the free atmosphere. Weather maps are used for the ...

Cetacea

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A mammalian order comprising approximately 90 living species of whales, dolphins, and porpoises and their fossil relatives. Like all other mammals but unlike all fish, cetaceans nurse their young ...

Medical ultrasonic tomography

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A mapping or imaging technique, used to obtain clinically useful information about the structure and functioning of tissues and organs, in which acoustic pulses are emitted from an acoustoelectric ...

Isothermal chart

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A map showing the distribution of air temperature (or sometimes sea surface or soil temperature) over a portion of the Earth's surface, or at some level in the atmosphere. On it, isotherms are lines ...

Foam

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A material composed of gas bubbles separated from one another by liquid or solid sheets (or lamellae). Foam densities range from nearly zero to about 43 lb/ft 3 (0.7 g/cm 3 ), above which gas ...