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Weather - Slang for anything in the atmosphere that restricts visibility for storm spotting, such as fog, haze, precipitation (steady rain or drizzle), widespread low clouds (stratus), etc.
NOAA National Weather Service - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Fractocumulus, Fractostratus, OTRW, RGD, SC, st, STFR, Stratus
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Weather - (or Gustinado) - [Slang], gust front tornado. A small tornado, usually weak and short-lived, that occurs along the gust front of a thunderstorm. Often it is visible only as a debris cloud or dust whirl near the ground. Gustnadoes are not associated with storm-scale rotation (i.e. mesocyclones); they are more likely to be associated visually with a shelf cloud than with a wall cloud.
NOAA National Weather Service - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: AOPA, Landspout, ROTG, SPCLY, Spin-Up, Waterspout
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Perl - An internal "glob value" typedef, holding a "typeglob". The "GV" type is a subclass of "SV".
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Cancer - A disease caused when cells from a donated stem cell graft attack the normal tissue of the transplant patient. Symptoms include jaundice, skin rash or blisters, a dry mouth, or dry eyes. Also called graft-versus-host disease.
National Cancer Institute - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: allogeneic stem cell transplantation, autologous stem cell transplantation, graft-versus-host disease, placental blood transplantation, stem cell, syngeneic stem cell transplantation, transfusion, tumor model, umbilical cord blood, xenograft
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Cancer - A drug used with another anticancer drug to treat breast cancer that is HER2 positive and has advanced or metastasized (spread to other parts of the body) after treatment with other drugs. GW572016 is also being studied in the treatment of other types of cancer. It is a type of ErbB-2 and EGFR dual tyrosine kinase inhibitor. Also called lapatinib, lapatinib ditosylate, and Tykerb.
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Food Biotechnology - A class of plant (e.g. conifers) whose ovules and the seeds into which they develop are borne unprotected, rather than enclosed in ovaries, as are those of the flowering plants, the ( angiosperms ).
UN Food and Agriculture Organization - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: artificial seed, Fetus, integument, nucellus, oogenesis, ovulation, ovule, precocious germination, seed