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  2. Swadesh list - Wikipedia

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    A Swadesh list (/ ˈ s w ɑː d ɛ ʃ /) is a compilation of tentatively universal concepts for the purposes of lexicostatistics.That is, a Swadesh list is a list of forms and concepts which all languages, without exception, have terms for, such as star, hand, water, kill, sleep, and so forth.

  3. Disease - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 January 2025. Condition negatively affecting an organism For other uses, see Disease (disambiguation). "Maladies" redirects here. For the 2012 film, see Maladies (film). "Malady" redirects here. For the American politician, see Regis Malady. "Ailment" redirects here. Not to be confused with Aliment ...

  4. Kata Kolok - Wikipedia

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    Kata Kolok usually used when at least one of the interlocutors is deaf. It can also be used by hearing interlocutors when they are far apart or working with noisy equipment. Kata Kolok can be used in all areas of life: i.e. used to communicate when repairing water pipes or when a village nurse need to communicate with hearing-impaired patients. [6]

  5. PPSMI - Wikipedia

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    Pengajaran dan Pembelajaran Sains dan Matematik Dalam Bahasa Inggeris (PPSMI, Malay for the teaching and learning of science and mathematics in English) is a government policy aimed at improving the command of the English language among pupils at primary and secondary schools in Malaysia.

  6. Dengue fever - Wikipedia

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    Dengue has increased in incidence in recent decades, with WHO recording a ten fold increase between 2010 and 2019 (from 500,000 to 5 million recorded cases). [1] This increase is tied closely to the increasing range of Aedes mosquitoes, which is attributed to a combination of urbanization , population growth, and an increasingly warm climate .

  7. Internal medicine - Wikipedia

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    Robert Koch, 19th century German physician and microbiologist [5] The term internal medicine in English has its etymology in the 19th-century German term Innere Medizin . Originally, [ 6 ] internal medicine focused on determining the underlying "internal" or pathological causes of symptoms and syndromes through a combination of medical tests ...

  8. Chronic kidney disease - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] Risk factors include a family history of chronic kidney disease. [2] Diagnosis is by blood tests to measure the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), and a urine test to measure albumin. [8] Ultrasound or kidney biopsy may be performed to determine the underlying cause. [5] Several severity-based staging systems are in use. [13] [14]

  9. Controlled vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] Controlled vocabularies solve the problems of homographs, synonyms and polysemes by a bijection between concepts and preferred terms. In short, controlled vocabularies reduce unwanted ambiguity inherent in normal human languages where the same concept can be given different names and ensure consistency.