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Meaning of mental illness, MRI, tough, experience, -logy, substrate, rigor mortis, amphipathic lipid, carotene, homeostasis

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Meaning of mental illness (noun)
form plural: mental illnesses

disorder of the mind where thought and/or behavior are abnormal and cause distress

Example
Schizophrenia is a mental illness.

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Meaning of MRI (abbreviation, acronym)
magnetic resonance imaging

diagnostic technique which uses a magnetic field and radio waves to provide computerized images of internal body tissues magnetic resonance imaging

Example
MRIs are used in medicine to help diagnose things that won't show up on an X-ray.

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Meaning of tough (adjective)
forms: tougher; toughest; the toughest

hard to break

Example
Metals are tough.

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Meaning of experience (verb)
forms: experienced; experienced; experiencing

to feel; to endure

Example
A diet which is bizarre or extreme may bring about weight loss if strictly adhered to but, as the brain draws on its reserves to make up for the deficiency in vital nutrients, the dieter is likely to become edgy, easily upset and to experience difficulty in making decisions.

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Meaning of -logy (suffix)
study

Example
Ecology is the study of living things and their environments.

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Meaning of substrate (noun)
form plural: substrates

the material on which an enzyme works

Example
The substrate fits the active site of the enzyme.
Fermentation is regulated by the amount of substrate available and its chemical composition, the substrate specificities and perferences of the bacterial species present and the metabolic pathways through which they metabolise the substrate.

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Meaning of rigor mortis (noun)
form: no plural

rigidity of death

Example
After death rigor mortis sets in very quickly.

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Meaning of amphipathic lipid (noun)
form plural: amphipathic lipids

contains a hydrophobic and a hydrophilic part

Example
Amphipathic liquids make up cell membranes and are important lipids.

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Meaning of carotene (noun)
form plural: carotenes

highly colored pigments (yellow to red) found in vegetables

Example
Vitamin A can be produced in the body from consuming carotene.

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Meaning of homeostasis (noun)
form: no plural

the process that maintains balance or equilibrium of an organism's internal environment

Example
Body temperature is controlled by homeostasis.
Because ecosystems in a steady state possess the property of self-regulation this is analogous to mechanisms such as homeostasis in living organisms, feedback principles in cybernetics and servomechanisms in systems engineering.

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