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Meaning of suture, foam, birth control, sterilized, neuro-, immunodeficient, natural selection, hypertonic, external nares, reproduce

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Meaning of suture (noun)
form plural: sutures

a joining of the edges of a wound

Example
Surgeons usually put sutures in under anesthetic.
The segmental plate or eusternum is subdivided into three sclerites, the presternum, basisternum and sternellum and in generalized forms the basisternum is separated from the sternellum by a transverse suture connecting the apophyseal pits -- points of cuticular invagination from which arises a pair of furcal arms forming part of the thoracic endoskeleton.

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Meaning of foam (verb)
forms: foamed; foamed; foaming

to form bubbles

Example
Rabies causes foaming at the mouth.

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Meaning of birth control (noun)
form: no plural

the use of contraceptive methods to stop pregnancy; contraception

Example
Sterilization is a means of birth control.
Despite the current problem of over-population, the Vatican can still impose its strictures on birth control and abortion -- not on social or moral grounds, but on theological.

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Meaning of sterilized (adjective)
to be free of micro-organisms; to be unable to reproduce

Example
Surgical instruments must be sterilized after each use.

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Meaning of neuro- (preffix)
nerve

Example
Neurogenic pain is pain from nerves.

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Meaning of immunodeficient (adjective)
forms: more immunodeficient; most immunodeficient

unable to become resistant against deceases

Example
Immunodeficient people have a higher risk of getting infections.

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Meaning of natural selection (noun)
form: no plural

theory which says that the characteristics that aid survival occur as random mutations and are then inherited as only the fittest survive

Example
The theory of natural selection was put forward by Darwin and Wallace.

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Meaning of hypertonic (adjective)
forms: more hypertonic; most hypertonic; the most hypertonic

having a higher osmotic pressure than another solution

Example
A cell placed in a hypertonic solution will shrink.

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Meaning of external nares (noun)
form: only plural

nostrils

Example
Air arrives in the respiratory tract through the external nares.

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Meaning of reproduce (verb)
forms: reproduced; reproduced; reproducing

to make similar structures or organisms

Example
Many plants can reproduce sexually and asexually.

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