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Recycling
The processing of used materials or waste into new products to prevent the waste of potentially useful waste material, reduce consumption of fresh material, as well as reduce energy consumption and environmental pollution.
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two-compartment model
Biology; Toxicology
Product of compartmental analysis requiring two compartments.
traceability (in metrology)
Biology; Toxicology
Property of a measurement result whereby the result can be related to a stated reference through a documented unbroken chain of calibrations, each contributing to the measurement ...
response
Biology; Toxicology
Proportion of an exposed population with a defined effect or the proportion of a group of individuals that demonstrates a defined effect in a given time at a given dose rate.
proportional mortality rate
Biology; Toxicology
Proportion of observed deaths from a specified condition in a defined population divided by the proportion of deaths expected from this condition in a standard population, ...
specificity of a screening test
Biology; Toxicology
Proportion of truly non-diseased persons who are identified by the screening test.
tumor necrosis factor (TNF)
Biology; Toxicology
Protein produced by several of the body's cell types, such as white blood cells, red blood cells, and other cells that line the blood vessels; it promotes the destruction of some ...
