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A scrub top Scrub trousers Scrubs worn in surgery are almost always colored solid light grey, light green, light blue or a light green-blue shade. Green scrubs are commonly chosen because green is the opposite of red on the color wheel, which helps doctors avoid visual fatigue and desensitization to the red and pink hues of blood and organs ...
Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes. Shrubland may either occur naturally or be the result of human activity.
Scrub(s) may refer to: Scrub, low shrub and grass characteristic of scrubland; Scrubs (clothing), worn by medical staff; Scrubs, an American television program; Scrubs (occupation), also called "scrub tech," "scrub nurse," or "surgical technologist" Wormwood Scrubs, also known as "The Scrubs", an area in west London
Surgical technologist demonstrating proper precautionary raised idle hand position. A surgical technologist, also called a scrub, scrub tech, surgical technician, or operating department practitioner or operating room technician, is an allied health professional working as a part of the team delivering surgical care.
Medical slang is the use of acronyms and informal terminology to describe patients, other healthcare personnel and medical concepts. Some terms are pejorative. In English, medical slang has entered popular culture via television hospital and forensic science dramas such as ER, House M.D., NCIS, Scrubs, and Grey's Anatomy, and through fiction, in books such as The House of God by Samuel Shem ...
A broom shrub in flower A rhododendron shrubbery in Sheringham Park. A shrub or bush is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant.Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground.
Garrigue in France.. Garrigue or garigue (/ ɡ ə ˈ r iː ɡ / gə-REEG), also known as phrygana (Greek: φρύγανα, n. pl.), [1] is a type of low scrubland ecoregion and plant community in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome.
The word chaparral is a loanword from Spanish chaparro, meaning place of the scrub oak, which itself comes from a Basque word, txapar, that has the same meaning. Conservation International and other conservation organizations consider chaparral to be a biodiversity hotspot [ 5 ] – a biological community with a large number of different ...