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Desiccation
Desiccation Desiccation is the removal of water from a biological system. Usually this is accomplished by exposure to dry heat. Most biological systems are adversely affected by the loss of water. Microorganisms are no exception to this, except for those that have evolved defensive measures to... Read more |
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Consortium
CONSORTIUM The marital alliance between a husband and wife and their respective right to each other's support, cooperation, aid, and companionship. Loss of consortium is an actionable injury for which money damages may be awarded. The loss of the love, sexual relations, and services of a spouse... Read more |
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Casualty
CASUALTY A serious or fatal accident. A person or thing injured, lost, or destroyed. A disastrous occurrence due to sudden, unexpected, or unusual cause. Accident; misfortune or mishap; that which comes by chance or without design. A loss from such an event or cause, as by fire, shipwreck,... Read more |
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general average
general average, a term in marine insurance for the adjustment of a loss when cargo on board a ship belonging to one or more owners has been sacrificed for the safety of the whole, whereby the amount of the loss is shared by all who have shipped cargo in the vessel. A case for general average would... Read more |
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Palimony
PALIMONY PALIMONY, a term derived from alimony, is legal action upholding oral agreements to share property and earnings acquired while an unmarried couple shared an abode. In 1976 Michelle Triola Marvin sued the actor Lee Marvin, claiming she abandoned her singing career to serve as his... Read more |
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Trichotillomania
Trichotillomania Definition Trichotillomania is a psychiatric condition in which an individual has an uncontrollable desire to pull out his own body hair. It is generally considered to be an impulse control disorder but is sometimes classified as either a subtype or variant of obsessive-compulsive... Read more |
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starvation
starvation condition in which deprivation of food has forced the body to feed on itself. Causes are famine, fasting, malnutrition, or abnormalities of the mucosal lining of the digestive system. Famines are often compounded by political strifes that restrict the distribution of aid and imports, as... Read more |
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James Lind
James Lind 1716-94, English naval surgeon. Considered the founder of naval hygiene in England, Lind observed on a ten-week cruise (1746) that 80 seamen of 350 came down with scurvy . In his Treatise of the Scurvy (1753) he emphasized the preventive effect of ingesting fresh fruit or lemon juice,... Read more |
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Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh , in Babylonian legend, king of Uruk . He is the hero of the Gilgamesh epic, a work of some 3,000 lines, written on 12 tablets c.2000 BC and discovered among the ruins at Nineveh. The epic was lost when the the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal was destroyed in 612 BC The... Read more |
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'FAULT LINE' MAPS JOURNEY OF OBSESSIVE LOVE,...
...devastatingly honest as Fault Line, a new memoir by...Colorado boy who fell in love with Alberts when...Was there some fault line running through...Perhaps it was our fault line, not his alone...the writing of Fault Line traps her anew...of destructive, ... |