| NEJM | New England Journal of Medicine |
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| AAHSLD | Association of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors |
| AHS | Academy of Health Sciences; African horse sickness; alveolar hypoventilation syndrome; American Hear... |
| AIBS | American Institute of Biological Sciences |
| BMSP | biomedical sciences program |
| ETS | Environmental Tobacco Smoke |
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| IEI | Idiopathic Environmental Intolerances |
| OEM | Occupational and Environmental Medicine |
| US EPA | United States Environmental Protection Agency |
| environmental tobacco smoke | A complex mixture of chemical constituents and particulates released into the atmosphere from the burning tip of a cigarette, pipe or cigar or from smoke exhaled by the smoker. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| environmental variance | Within a population, the measure of how much of the variation of a particular phenotype is due to environmental factors (as opposed to variations in genotype. An example might be the height of a human as determined by such factors as nutrition or infectious diseases during childhood. See: genetic variance. (09 Oct 1997) |
| united states environmental protection agency | An agency in the executive branch which endeavors to abate and control pollution in the areas of air, water, solid waste, noise, radiation, and toxic substances. (12 Dec 1998) |