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This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymologies. Most of them are combining forms in Neo-Latin and hence international scientific vocabulary. There are a few general rules about how they combine.
Degradation (geology), lowering of a fluvial surface by erosion Degradation (telecommunications), of an electronic signal Biodegradation of organic substances by living organisms
Things like vegetables may degrade within days, while glass and some plastics take many millennia to decompose. A standard for biodegradability used by the European Union is that greater than 90% of the original material must be converted into CO 2 , water and minerals by biological processes within 6 months.
It is helpful to be able to understand the source of scientific names. Although the Latin names do not always correspond to the current English common names, they are often related, and if their meanings are understood, they are easier to recall. The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named.
Shown is a diagram representing two degron-identifying procedures outlined in the text. In the first (green) procedure, the unaltered form of the protein remains abundant over time while the mutant form containing a degron candidate decreases rapidly.
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Data degradation is the gradual corruption of computer data due to an accumulation of non-critical failures in a data storage device.It is also referred to as data decay, data rot or bit rot. [1]