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Central America |
A region of southern NORTH AMERICA extending from the southern border of MEXICO to the northern border of COLOMBIA. It separates the Caribbean Sea from the Pacific Ocean and is linked to SOUTH AMERICA by the Isthmus of Panama. |
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| D003681 |
Dehydration |
The condition that results from excessive loss of water from a living organism. |
Water Stress,Stress, Water |
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| D006801 |
Humans |
Members of the species Homo sapiens. |
Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man |
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| D000383 |
Agriculture |
The science, art or practice of cultivating soil, producing crops, and raising livestock. |
Agronomy,Agricultural Development,Farming,Agronomies,Development, Agricultural |
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| D012275 |
Oryza |
A genus of grass family (Poaceae) that include several rice species. |
Oryza sativa,Rice,Rices |
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| D013188 |
Sri Lanka |
Country in southern Asia, an island in the Indian Ocean, south of India. The capital is Colombo. |
Ceylon |
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| D015984 |
Causality |
The relating of causes to the effects they produce. Causes are termed necessary when they must always precede an effect and sufficient when they initiate or produce an effect. Any of several factors may be associated with the potential disease causation or outcome, including predisposing factors, enabling factors, precipitating factors, reinforcing factors, and risk factors. |
Causation,Enabling Factors,Multifactorial Causality,Multiple Causation,Predisposing Factors,Reinforcing Factors,Causalities,Causalities, Multifactorial,Causality, Multifactorial,Causation, Multiple,Causations,Causations, Multiple,Enabling Factor,Factor, Enabling,Factor, Predisposing,Factor, Reinforcing,Factors, Enabling,Factors, Predisposing,Factors, Reinforcing,Multifactorial Causalities,Multiple Causations,Predisposing Factor,Reinforcing Factor |
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| D051436 |
Renal Insufficiency, Chronic |
Conditions in which the KIDNEYS perform below the normal level for more than three months. Chronic kidney insufficiency is classified by five stages according to the decline in GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE and the degree of kidney damage (as measured by the level of PROTEINURIA). The most severe form is the end-stage renal disease (CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE). (Kidney Foundation: Kidney Disease Outcome Quality Initiative, 2002) |
Kidney Insufficiency, Chronic,Chronic Kidney Diseases,Chronic Kidney Insufficiency,Chronic Renal Diseases,Chronic Renal Insufficiency,Chronic Kidney Disease,Chronic Kidney Insufficiencies,Chronic Renal Disease,Chronic Renal Insufficiencies,Disease, Chronic Kidney,Disease, Chronic Renal,Diseases, Chronic Kidney,Diseases, Chronic Renal,Kidney Disease, Chronic,Kidney Diseases, Chronic,Kidney Insufficiencies, Chronic,Renal Disease, Chronic,Renal Diseases, Chronic,Renal Insufficiencies, Chronic |
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| D057232 |
Global Warming |
Increase in the temperature of the atmosphere near the Earth's surface and in the troposphere, which can contribute to changes in global climate patterns. |
Warming, Global |
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| D031786 |
Saccharum |
A plant genus of the family POACEAE widely cultivated in the tropics for the sweet cane that is processed into sugar. |
Sugarcane,Saccharum officinarum,Saccharum spontaneum,Sugarcanes |
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