Biomedical Waste
Waste generated by human or animal health care facilities including medical or veterinary research and testing establishments.
Biome
Entire community of living organisms in a single major ecological area. (See biotic community.)
Source: Terms of the Environment ...
Biomes are a means of classifying vegetation into distinct groups, at a very broad scale. North America is comprised of 11 very different biomes, including...
Biomes are characterised by a dominant vegetation and defined by the species within them. Examples include the desert biome and the rainforest biome.
Biomedical testing
Testing of persons to find out whether a change in a body function might have occurred because of exposure to a hazardous substance.
Biome
Well-defined terrestrial environment (e.g. desert, tundra, or tropical forest). The complex of living organisms found in an ecological region.
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biome Any of the major terrestrial ecosystems of the world, such as tundra, deciduous forest, desert, taiga, etc.
Savannah The tropical grassland biome. Scramble competition The most extreme form of overcompensating density dependence in the effect of intraspecific competition on survivorship where all competing individuals are so adversely affected ...
Significantly more animals are used in biomedical and other kinds of research, ...
weight-of-evidence for toxicity
Extent to which the available biomedical data support the hypothesis that a substance causes a defined toxic effect such as cancer in humans.
The variety of ecosystems that occurs within a larger landscape, ranging from biome (the largest ecological unit) to microhabitat.
Definition source
UNEP. Glossary of biodiversity terms.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Science Education Partnership Award program of the National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Space Biomedical Research Institute; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; ...
Musculoskeletal Disorder (MSD): Any physical disorder that results from or is aggravated by the cumulative effect of biomechanical stress to tendons, tendon sheaths, synovial lubrication of the tendon sheaths and related bone, muscles, ...
Desertification - Simply the change of useful land into a desert environment. This influences atmospheric chemistry because the humidity and biospheric gas emissions from the modified biome is modified by this process [Journal of Arid ...
In ecological risk assessment, a general term referring to a species, a group of species, an ecosystem function or characteristic, or a specific habitat or biome.
Ecological/Environmental Sustainability ...
Ecological Entity: In ecological risk assessment, a general term referring to a species, a group of species, an ecosystem function or characteristic, or a specific habitat or biome.
Case study
The medical or epidemiologic evaluation of a single person or a small number of individuals to determine descriptive information about their health status or potential for exposure through interview or biomedical testing.(4) ...
The NIEHS conducts biomedical research programs, prevention and intervention efforts, and education.
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