| Hantavirus |
Virus carried by rodents that causes bleeding and kidney failure. A variant called Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome was discovered in the American Southwest in the 1990s, and causes a serious lung infection and death in nearly half of those who become infected. People catch the disease by breathing in particles from the rodents' droppings (not from bites).
Ãâó: www.ecohealth101.org/glossary.html
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| hangover |
The wrath of grapes.
Ãâó: www.springboard4health.com/notebook/dict_h.html
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| hand |
A unit of measure equal to 4 inches, used to measure the height of a horse at the highest point of the withers. The number of whole hands is properly followed by a hyphen, then the remaining height in inches. Thus a horse who measures 5 feet and two inches at the withers would be designated "15-2 hands". This is sometimes written with a decimal point replacing the hyphen, which is inadvisable because the decimal point is, on some rare occasions, used to designate following tenths. ...
Ãâó: www.horseshoes.com/glossary/h/glsrh.htm
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| handicap |
An environmental or attitudinal barrier facing a person with a disability.
Ãâó: www.azspinabifida.org/gloss.html
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| hand |
The human hand plays its most prominent part in heraldry as the device of Ulster and the badge of baronets.
Ãâó: digiserve.com/heraldry/pimb_h.htm
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