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Cancer - An organ that makes one or more substances, such as hormones, digestive juices, sweat, tears, saliva, or milk. Endocrine glands release the substances directly into the bloodstream. Exocrine glands release the substances into a duct or opening to the inside or outside of the body.
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Telecommunications - The Signaling System No. 7 (SS7) switch designated as control switch for circuits in the both-way circuit group. For the same circuits, the other switch is referred to as the slave. On detecting glare, the control switch proceeds to complete the call for which it has already sent an initial address message (IAM). The IAM received from the slave is discarded. The call being processed by the slave is backed off and the switch path released. A release message is not sent. [T1.226-1992]
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Telecommunications - In the strict sense, a state of matter. [FAA] 2. In fiber-optic communication, any of a number of noncrystalline, amorphous inorganic substances, formed, by heating, from metallic or semiconductor oxides or halides, and used as the material for fibers. Note: The most common glasses are based on silicon dioxide (SiO2). [After FAA]
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Cancer - (glaw-KOH-muh) A condition in which there is a build-up of fluid in the eye, which presses on the retina and the optic nerve. The retina is the layer of nerve tissue inside the eye that senses light and sends images along the optic nerve to the brain. Glaucoma can damage the optic nerve and cause loss of vision or blindness.
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Diabetes - (Open-angle and acute angle-closure glaucoma, Neovascular glaucoma) A disease of the eye characterized by high intraocular pressure within the eyeball, damaged optic disk, atrophy of the optic nerve, hardening of the eyeball, and partial defect in the field of vision or complete loss of vision. Glaucoma is associated with high blood pressure, diabetes, and hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis), or optic nerve damage.
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Climate Change - Glaze A coating of ice, generally clear and smooth but usually containing some air pockets, formed on exposed objects by freezing of a film of super-cooled water deposited by rain, drizzle, fog, or possibly condensed from super-cooled water vapor. Glaze is denser, harder and more transparent, than either rime or hoarfrost.
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Defense - Ground-Launched Cruise Missile.
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Cancer - (GLEE-sun...) A system of grading prostate cancer tissue based on how it looks under a microscope. Gleason scores range from 2 to 10 and indicate how likely it is that a tumor will spread. A low Gleason score means the cancer tissue is similar to normal prostate tissue and the tumor is less likely to spread; a high Gleason score means the cancer tissue is very different from normal and the tumor is more likely to spread.
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Cancer - (GLEE-vek) A drug used to treat different types of leukemia and other cancers of the blood, gastrointestinal stromal tumors, skin tumors called dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans, and a rare condition called systemic mastocytosis. It is also being studied in the treatment of other types of cancer. Gleevec blocks the protein made by the bcr/abl oncogene. It is a type of tyrosine kinase inhibitor. Also called imatinib mesylate and STI571.
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Weather - (Open Lakes Forecast) - A National Weather Service marine forecast product for the U.S. waters within a Great Lake not including the waters covered by an existing Nearshore Waters Forecast (NSH). When the seasonal Nearshore forecast is not issued, the Open Lake forecast includes a forecast of nearshore waters.
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Breast Cancer - (glee'-ul sells) branched cells that make up the supporting structure of the nervous (brain & spinal cord) tissue.
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