| environmental medicine |
the healthcare specialty concerned with human illnesses or dysfunctions that result from environmental factors.
Ãâó: www.cdh.org/HealthInformation.aspx
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| environment |
means the components of the Earth and includes, but is not limited to: land, water and air, including all layers of the atmosphere; organic and inorganic matter and living organisms; and the interacting natural systems that include components referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b).
Ãâó: strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/inait-aci.nsf/en/...
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| environment |
All external conditions that affect an organism or other specified system during its lifetime.
Ãâó: www.natsource.com/markets/index.asp
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| environment |
The complex of physical, chemical, and biotic factors (as climate, soil, and living things) that act upon an organism or an ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival.
Ãâó: www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/scitech/2001/resources...
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| environmental resistance |
those factors of the environment which prevent reproduction or inhibit development of a species and hence limit the extent (or determine the borders) of its distribution area.
Ãâó: www.radford.edu/~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG303/humnglos...
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