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71Tractor pto augers — Commonly referred to as Post Hole Diggers and Earth Augers, Tractor PTO Augers are implements used in conjunction with a tractors Power Take Off drive, and a tractors 3 point hitch. The basic concept of a tractor PTO auger is to harness the… …
72Ryerson & Burnham — Commonly known as the Ryerson Burnam Archives [ [http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/rbarchives/ The Art Institute of Chicago: Ryerson Burnham Archives ] ] of The Art Institute of Chicago, this is an online search mechanism for accessing the… …
73Elimination tournament — commonly compete. In a playoffs series, teams play eachother to win a specific amount of games in order to advance to the next round. CompetitionsThe following competitions often use elimination style tournaments: *Poker tournaments *Bridge… …
74aquaculture — Commonly termed fish farming, but it broadly refers to the commercial growing of marine (mariculture) or freshwater animals and aquatic plants …
75formaldehyde — Commonly used fixative and antibacterial agent. As a fixative it is cheap and tends to cause less denaturation of proteins than does glutaraldehyde, particularly if used in a well buffered solution (buffered formalin, formal saline). Old… …
76streptomycin — Commonly used antibiotic in cell culture media: acts only on prokaryotes, and blocks transition from initiation complex to chain elongating ribosome. Isolated originally from a soil streptomycete …
77Abs — Commonly used slang for the abdominal muscles, the muscles running up and down in the abdominal wall. The abs contain the rectus abdominus muscle, rectus meaning straight. * * * abdominal surgery; acidic ammonium bisulfate; acute brain syndrome;… …
78CF — Commonly used abbreviation for cystic fibrosis, one of the most frequent and serious genetic diseases, CF affects the exocrine glands and is characterized by the production of abnormal secretions, leading to mucous build up. This accumulation of… …
79Chest X-ray — Commonly used to detect abnormalities in the lungs, but can also detect abnormalities in the heart, aorta, and the bones of the thoracic area. Metallic objects, such as jewelry are removed from the chest and neck areas for a chest x ray to avoid… …
80CVC — Commonly used abbreviation for a Central Venous Catheter, a catheter (tube) that is passed through a vein to end up in the thoracic (chest) portion of the vena cava (the large vein returning blood to the heart) or in the right atrium of the heart …
