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  2. Chlorine dioxide - Wikipedia

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    Chlorine dioxide is also superior to chlorine when operating above pH 7, [17]: 4–33 in the presence of ammonia and amines, [28] and for the control of biofilms in water distribution systems. [25] Chlorine dioxide is used in many industrial water treatment applications as a biocide, including cooling towers, process water, and food processing ...

  3. List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions - Wikipedia

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    a single-storey a can be mistaken as an o which could read "o.d.", meaning right eye ad., add. adde addatur: add let there be added ad lib. ad libitum: Latin, "at one's pleasure"; as much as one desires; freely compare pro re nata, "as needed", which by convention includes an aspect

  4. List of medical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Abbreviations of weights and measures are pronounced using the expansion of the unit (mg = "milligram") and chemical symbols using the chemical expansion (NaCl = "sodium chloride"). Some initialisms deriving from Latin may be pronounced either as letters (qid = "cue eye dee") or using the English expansion (qid = "four times a day"). [citation ...

  5. Serum chloride - Wikipedia

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    Also, the chloride-bicarbonate exchanger biological transport protein relies on the chloride ion to increase the blood's capacity of carbon dioxide, in the form of the bicarbonate ion; this is the mechanism underpinning the chloride shift occurring as the blood passes through oxygen-consuming capillary beds.

  6. List of medical abbreviations: C - Wikipedia

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    Meaning c̅ (c with an overbar) with (from Latin cum) means with C: cytosine cervical vertebrae: C1: atlas – first cervical vertebra of the spine C2: axis – second cervical vertebra of the spine CA: carcinoma cancer: Ca: calcium carcinoma cancer: CAA: coronary artery aneurysm: c/b: complicated by: CABG: coronary artery bypass graft ...

  7. Inhalational anesthetic - Wikipedia

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    Other gases or vapors which produce general anaesthesia by inhalation include nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, cyclopropane, and xenon. These are stored in gas cylinders and administered using flowmeters, rather than vaporisers.

  8. Arterial blood gas test - Wikipedia

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    An arterial blood gas (ABG) test, or arterial blood gas analysis (ABGA) measures the amounts of arterial gases, such as oxygen and carbon dioxide.An ABG test requires that a small volume of blood be drawn from the radial artery with a syringe and a thin needle, [1] but sometimes the femoral artery in the groin or another site is used.

  9. Loop diuretic - Wikipedia

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    Loop diuretics are 90% bonded to proteins and are secreted into the proximal convoluted tubule through organic anion transporter 1 (OAT-1), OAT-2, and ABCC4.Loop diuretics act on the Na +-K +-2Cl − symporter (NKCC2) in the thick ascending limb of the loop of Henle to inhibit sodium, chloride and potassium reabsorption.