| emphysema |
Lung disease characterized by shortness of breath, often associated with smoking.
Ãâó: www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBook...
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| emphysema |
A pulmonary condition with loss of elasticity in the alveoli and the interalveolar septa...the meat-foam and their interleaving sheaths that you fill up when you breathe. If a septum gets too stretched over time, several of the little sacs will coalesce together, decreasing the surface area for oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange. ...
Ãâó: www.healthsuperstore.com/hni/glossary-e1.asp
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| empirical |
Based upon experimental observation, not calculated from a theoretical basis.
Ãâó: www.everyscience.com/Chemistry/Glossary/E.php
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| empirical formula |
A reduced molecular formula. If you have a molecular formula and you can reduce all of the subscripts by some constant number, the result is the empirical formula.
Ãâó: misterguch.brinkster.net/vocabulary.html
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| empiric risk |
Risk of recurrence for multifactorial or polygenic disorders based on family studies (observed risk).
Ãâó: www.kumc.edu/gec/gloss.html
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