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• Textile manufacturing
  ...leaching are acceptable, for example. However, for white bed sheetings and medical applications, the highest levels of whiteness and absorbency are essential. ...ose of cotton but take account that reeled silk is a continuous fibre. The terms used are different.
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• Iron
  Although its metallurgical role is dominant in terms of amounts, iron compounds are pervasive in industry as well being used in The medical management of iron toxicity is complicated, and can include use of a specif
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• Carbon monoxide poisoning
  ...reducing the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood, leading to [[Hypoxia (medical)|hypoxia]]. Additionally, [[myoglobin]] and mitochondrial [[cytochrome oxid ...oning: systemic manifestations and complications|journal=Journal of Korean Medical Science|year=2001|pages=253–261|volume=16|issue=3|pmid=11410684|month=Jun
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• Cancer
  '''Cancer''' {{IPA-en|ˈkænsər||en-us-cancer.ogg}} (medical term: [[malignancy|malignant]] [[neoplasm]]) is a class of [[disease]]s in ...edition = 2nd, illustrated, revised| language = | publisher = McGraw-Hill, Medical Pub. Division | location = New York | year = 2002 | page = 5| isbn = 978-0-
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• Nosocomial infection
  ...ction is also known as a '''hospital-acquired infection''' (or, in generic terms, '''healthcare-associated infection'''). ...[medical procedure]]s bypass the body's natural protective barriers. Since medical staff move from patient to patient, the staff themselves serve as a means f
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• Asbestos
  ...le that they used the term ''asbestos'' for [[soapstone]], because the two terms have often been confused throughout history.<ref name=histsci/> ...the U.S.<ref name="qsqlui" /> The term [[Mesothelioma]] was first used in medical literature in 1931; its association with asbestos was first noted sometime
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• Air safety
  It is often reported that air travel is the safest in terms of deaths per passenger mile. The [[National Transportation Safety Board]] Several terms fall under the [[flight safety]] topic of '''runway safety''', including ''
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• Work–life balance
  ..., family and spiritual development) on the other. Related, though broader, terms include "lifestyle balance" and "life balance". ...jobs are three times more likely than others to suffer from stress-related medical conditions and are twice as likely to quit. The study states that women, in
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• Examinetics
  ...Overland Park, Kansas, operates over 70 mobile screening units to provide medical surveillance testing and reporting services to US industrial and government ...re providers, government agencies, and Fortune 500 companies. Kent is the Medical Director of Examinetics.
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• Prevention of Accidents (Seafarers) Convention, 1970
  ...the Protection against Accidents (Dockers) Convention (Revised), 1932, the Medical Examination (Seafarers) Convention, 1946, and the Guarding of Machinery Con <blockquote>Noting the terms of the Safety of Life at Sea Convention, 1960, and the Regulations annexed
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• Radiation dose reconstruction
  ...nuclear facility, except dose reconstructions evaluate past exposures. The terms historical and retrospective often are used to describe a dose reconstructi ...ion methods are used to a large extent in occupational, environmental, and medical epidemiological research studies.
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• Occupational hygiene
  ...characterizing the nature of the issue, both in terms of the hazard and in terms of the risk to the workplace and ultimately to society. This has involved ...first legal definition in the United States of an industrial hygienist in terms of education and experience. The APIH Registration Committee investigates a
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• Emergency management
  Emergency Management is one of a number of terms which, since the end of the [[Cold War]], have largely replaced ''Civil def ...emergency response was published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, it had two sections of questions for a professional to ask the
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• Occupational safety and health
  • Voluntary medical examinations<br> ...a 0.5 or 50/50 chance of the outcome occurring during a year), in relative terms (e.g. "high/medium/low"), or with a multi-dimensional classification scheme
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• Work–life balance (United States)
  ...to have a life '''thus''' the work life balance. Related, though broader, terms include "lifestyle balance" and "life balance". ===Family and Medical Leave Act===
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• Cadmium
  ....com/?id=PmohO5jV2YsC|pages = 159|title = Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science|first = Robley|last = Dunglison|publisher = Henry C. Lea|year = 186 ...ernational Conference on Weights and Measures]] redefined the [[meter]] in terms of a red cadmium spectral line (1 m = 1,553,164.13 wavelengths).<ref>{{cite
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• Lead poisoning
  ...num''', '''saturnism''', [[Devon colic]], or '''painter's colic''') is a medical condition caused by increased levels of the [[Heavy metal (chemistry)|heavy Lead poisoning can cause a variety of [[symptom]]s and [[medical sign|signs]] which vary depending on the individual and the duration of lea
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• Electromagnetic field
  ...ials which possess more complex responses to electromagnetic fields, these terms are often represented by complex numbers, or tensors. ...at there is only one type (no [[negative mass]]es), or, in more colloquial terms, 'gravity is always attractive'.
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• Lead
  ...iclerender.fcgi?artid=1567791 The cultural parameters of lead poisoning: a medical anthropologist's view of intervention in environmental lead exposure. ...easurement|location = Bethesda, MD|title = Structural shielding design for medical X-ray imaging facilities.}}</ref> Molten lead is used as a [[coolant]] (e.g
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• ASTM International
  ...Press Release 09/09/09">[http://astmnewsroom.org/default.aspx?pageid=1881 Medical Device Standards Database Press Release 09/09/09]</ref> * the '''Terminology Standard''', that provides agreed definitions of terms used in the other standards.
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