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  2. Hospital emergency codes - Wikipedia

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    Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.

  3. Shades of purple - Wikipedia

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    Main article: Han purple and Han blue. Han purple and Han blue were synthetic colors made by artisans in China during the Han dynasty (206 BC to 220 AD) or even earlier. Han purple is a type of artificial pigment found in China between 500 BC and AD 220. It was used in the decoration of the Terracotta Army .

  4. Commelina communis - Wikipedia

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    Commelina communis. L. Green = native, Red = introduced. Commelina communis, commonly known as the Asiatic dayflower, is an herbaceous annual plant in the dayflower family. It gets its name because the blooms last for only one day. [1] It is native throughout much of East Asia and northern parts of Southeast Asia.

  5. Violets Are Blue - Wikipedia

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    Violets Are Blue (1975 film), a 1975 Danish film. Violets Are Blue (1986 film), a 1986 romance starring Sissy Spacek. Violets Are Blue (novel), a 2001 novel in the Alex Cross series by James Patterson. "Violets Are Blue", a 2002 song by The Killing Tree. "Violets Are Blue", a 2010 extended play by Breezy Lovejoy, a former pseudonym of Anderson ...

  6. Violet ray - Wikipedia

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    Another electrode used with the same set. A violet ray is an antique medical appliance used during the early 20th century to discharge in electrotherapy. Their construction usually featured a disruptive discharge coil with an interrupter to apply a high voltage, high frequency, low current to the human body for therapeutic purposes.

  7. Non-photo blue - Wikipedia

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    Non-photo blue (or non-repro blue) is a common tool in the graphic design and print industry, being a particular shade of blue that cannot be detected by graphic arts camera film. This allows layout editors to write notes to the printer on the print flat (the image that is to be photographed and sent to print) which will not show in the final form.

  8. Viola odorata - Wikipedia

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    Viola odorata is a species of flowering plant in the family Violaceae, native to Europe and Asia. This small hardy herbaceous perennial is commonly known as wood violet, [1] sweet violet, [2] English violet, [2] common violet, [2] florist's violet, [2] or garden violet. [2] It has been introduced into the Americas and Australia.

  9. Vacutainer - Wikipedia

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    Vacutainer. A vacutainer blood collection tube is a sterile glass or plastic test tube with a colored rubber stopper creating a vacuum seal inside of the tube, facilitating the drawing of a predetermined volume of liquid. Vacutainer tubes may contain additives designed to stabilize and preserve the specimen prior to analytical testing.