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wilting
wilting The condition that arises in plants when more water is lost by evaporation than is absorbed from the soil. This causes the cells to lose their turgor and the plant structure droops. Plants can normally recover from wilting if water is added to the soil, but permanent wilting and possible... Read more |
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Nephrotic Syndrome
Nephrotic Syndrome Definition Nephrotic syndrome is a collection of symptoms which occur because the tiny blood vessels (the glomeruli) in the kidney become leaky. This allows protein (normally never passed out in the urine) to leave the body in large amounts. Description The glomeruli (a single... Read more |
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Oleaceae
Oleaceae A family of trees or shrubs that have opposite, exstipulate leaves and usually tetramerous flowers with 2 stamens attached to the corolla tube. The ovary is superior and 2-celled. Besides Olea, Fraxinus (ash) is an important timber tree, with reduced flowers that normally lack a perianth.... Read more |
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gel filtration
gel filtration A column-chromatographic technique that normally employs as a stationary phase polymeric carbohydrate-gel beads of controlled size and porosity. Mixture components are separated on the basis of their sizes and rates of diffusion into the beads. Smaller molecules tend to diffuse more... Read more |
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Solanaceae
Solanaceae A family of dicotyledonous (see DICOTYLEDON) plants, mostly herbs but some shrubs and trees, having normally alternate leaves, and regular flowers which are mostly pentamerous. The petals form a corolla tube, at least at the base. There are 5 stamens, alternating with the corolla lobes.... Read more |
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sporophyll
sporophyll A leaf that bears sporangia (spore-producing structures). In ferns the sporophylls are the normal foliage leaves, but in other plants the sporophylls are modified and arise in specialized structures such as the strobili (cones) of clubmosses, horsetails, and gymnosperms and the flower of... Read more |
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Normal Distribution
Distribution, Normal HISTORY APPLICATIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY The normal distribution is the single most important distribution in the social sciences. It is described by the bell-shaped curve defined by the probability density function where exp is the exponential function, μ Read more |
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prion
prion , infectious agent thought to cause a group of diseases known as prion diseases or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Well-known prion diseases are Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and kuru in humans, scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also called "mad cow... Read more |
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Normal
Normal town (1990 pop. 40,023), McLean co., central Ill.; inc. 1865. It is the center of a productive farming region. Motor vehicles are manufactured in Normal. The town originally grew around Illinois State Univ. (1857; formerly called Illinois State Normal Univ.), which remains a major... Read more |
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Part 4 Plant science.(Part 1: A-B)(Definition)
...distribution during cell division that results in deviation from normal. Abiotic Disease--A disease caused by an inanimate agent...or a portion of stem, in which the cell walls dissolve, leaving the vascular bundles for support. These eventually break... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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`Leaving Normal' slips into a sitcom
LEAVING NORMAL Directed by: Edward Zwick Written by...profanity) It's hard not to think of "Leaving Normal" as the TV sitcom version of...Louise." In short, no sooner does "Leaving Normal" permit its women to turn their... |
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`Leaving Normal' gets lost along the way
Leaving Normal (STAR)(STAR) 1/2 Marianne Meg Tilly...ve made a heroic effort to consider "Leaving Normal" on its own, but I cannot rid...Louise." It is not the fault of "Leaving Normal" that it resembles a better film... |
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TOPHER GRACE LEAVING NORMAL YOUNG ACTOR'S ABILITY TO TRANSFORM PERSONA HELPS...
...Topher Grace will not say he's normal. What's more, he really...says in an interview, `I'm normal,' I want to know what they...not, because nobody who's normal says they are. But also...upside. Although he regrets leaving college after his freshman... |
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FDA APPROVES 'WAVE OF THE FUTURE' LEUKEMIA DRUG THE DRUG IS BASED ON...
...annually. Thompson said the drug is based on the principle of molecular targeting, killing leukemia cells while leaving normal white cells alone. "We believe such targeting is the wave of the future," he said. Using similar language, Dr... |
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Leaving Normal [Cloudstreet]
...eccentricity out of life. Everyone just wants to be normal." I am struck by the sadness and accuracy...happy to be individually and congregationally normal! Whatever became of the eccentrics? Normal is a desert wasteland. Normal is a week... |
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Normal approves Bloomington's leaving
NORMAL -- The City Council reluctantly approved...years to soften the financial impact to Normal and McLean County. The three currently...operating budget. ETSB also contributes money. Normal and McLean County will have to increase... |
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If I had a dollar ... Comparison, second-guessing, and assumption are three...
It was a carefully programmed morning. I threw a load into the washing machine, checked email, exercised, did a little gardening, put the first load of clothes into the dryer and started a second, dressed, and drove to the nonprofit consignment store where I volunteer. All before 10:30 a.m. So as I |
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Guitar World leaving longtime homeBusiness moving to new uptown Normal location
NORMAL - For more than 30 years, Jim Bland has...next month, however, plans for uptown Normal redevelopment will force him to move from...advantages, guitar student Pat Hiser of Normal will miss the Broadway shop. She penned... |
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The death of Pope John Paul II: Rome clears up after the millions who came to...
...as the funeral was over, however, the vast crowd seemingly evaporated, leaving millions of plastic bottles behind. By 3pm on Friday the city seemed almost back to normal " there were even taxis available. An (Anglican) Englishman working in... |
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'NORMAL' AN UNEVEN ODYSSEY.(Preview)
...are many wonderful things in "Leaving Normal," which stirs together reheated...cute. There are moments when "Leaving Normal" seems beyond resuscitation...corny, which says a lot for "Leaving Normal." CAPTION(S): PHOTO... |
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