| indwelling catheter |
A flexible tube retained in the bladder, used for continuous urinary draining to a leg bag or other device.
Ãâó: members.tripod.com/~cripkorner/glossary.html
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| induction |
1. The relief of repression for a gene or set of genes under negative control by a repressor. 2. Regarding temperate phages, the process causing a prophage to become virulent. 3. In development, an interaction between two cell lineages to alter the developmental fate of one or both of them.
Ãâó: helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/bto/glossary/ijk.htm
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| industrial melanism |
The darkening of several species of moths during the recent period of industrialization in many countries by the spread of a gene controlling elevated melanin synthesis.
Ãâó: helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/bto/glossary/ijk.htm
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| independent variable |
A variable that may, it is believed, predict or cause fluctuation in an dependent variable.
Ãâó: www.epa.gov/evaluate/glossary/i-esd.htm
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| index case |
First disease case in an epidemic within a population.
Ãâó: science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/disease...
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