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Score: 5/5 (71 votes) Sophistication is the quality that belongs to a person who appears wise and glamorous. Sipping tea and appreciating opera are both stereotypical signs of sophistication. The noun sophistication can also be used in a slightly different way, to describe a deep understanding, or a...
Score: 4.9/5 (38 votes) The second reason snakes don't die from their own venom is that snakes make their own antidote, which is a medicine that protects them from the venom. ... These cells can protect the snake only from small amounts of venom, though, so snakes can get very sick or die if th...
Score: 4.6/5 (27 votes) The definition of aspiration is when any food, liquid, or other matter passes below the vocal folds. Therefore, the cuff cannot prevent aspiration as it is located below the vocal folds (see Figure 1). When neither mechanical ventilation or a risk of gross aspiration is prese...
Score: 4.3/5 (33 votes) Causes. NMO is an autoimmune condition. This means the body's immune system reacts abnormally and attacks healthy tissues, causing the symptoms of NMO. NMO is usually not inherited, but some people with NMO may have a history of autoimmune disorders in the family and may...
Score: 4.4/5 (28 votes) While bicycles are basically both car and pedestrian (based on where they are used), most states also have laws specifically related to the bicyclist. ... And, for purposes of liability when a car hits someone riding a bicycle, most states treat the cyclist as a pedestrian ra...
Score: 4.1/5 (69 votes) The males of this insect species consume this weed as a means of repelling hungry prey. The plant tissue of dogfennel contains an alkaloid toxin, pyrrolizidine. In mammals this compound causes liver damage and potentially fatal fluid retentions, if consumed in large quantitie...
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Score: 4.9/5 (12 votes) transitive verb. 1 : to border on : to touch along an edge Their property abuts our land. 2 : to cause to touch or lean for support abut a timber against a post. intransitive verb.What does abutting mean medically?: that abuts or serves as an abutment : adjoining, bordering.W...
Score: 4.9/5 (32 votes) A: Approximately 1 to 2% of the U.S. equine population is slaughtered each year. That number has not changed since horse slaughter in this country ceased with the closure of the last slaughter house in 2007. By comparison, approximately 10 to 12% of the U.S. equine population...
Score: 4.8/5 (1 votes) : to fall asleep especially for a short period of time A few students dozed off during the movie.How do you use doze off in a sentence?change from a waking to a sleeping state.He dozed off during the film.I dozed off during the film.The film was so boring that I dozed off in t...
