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Vegetations meaning
plural of vegetation (in pathology)
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Like NBTE, Libman-Sacks endocarditis involves small vegetations, while infective endocarditis is composed of large vegetations.
Diagnosed with pneumonia, Zermeno was found to have growths — "vegetations," in medical lingo — on two of the valves of his heart.
As opposed to infective endocarditis, the vegetations in NBTE are small, sterile, and tend to aggregate along the edges of the valve or the cusps.
Canada There are three quarantine Acts of Parliament in Canada: Quarantine Act (humans) and Health of Animals Act (animals) and Plant Protection Act (vegetations).
Only those areas which defrost in the summer have vegetations, which accounts for about 10% of the archipelago.
Typically NBTE does not cause many problems on its own, but parts of the vegetations may break off and embolize to the heart or brain, or they may serve as a focus where bacteria can lodge, thus causing infective endocarditis.
With the vegetations potential to sustain burning only probable if it is within a radius or two from the surface of the nuclear fireball, which is at a distance that would also experience extreme blast winds that would influence any such fires.