environmental insult
1insult — I. verb Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French insulter, from Latin insultare, literally, to spring upon, from in + saltare to leap more at saltation Date: 1540 intransitive verb archaic to behave with pride or arrogance ; vaunt… …
2State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry — Established 1911 Type Public President Cornelius B. Murphy, Jr …
3Causes of autism — Autism and autism spectrum disorders are complex neurodevelopmental disorders. Many causes of autism have been proposed, but its theory of causation is still incomplete. Heritability contributes about 90% of the risk of a child developing autism …
4Heritability of autism — Autism has a strong genetic basis, although the genetics of autism is complex and it is unclear whether ASD is explained more by multigene interactions or by rare mutations with major effects. [cite journal |journal= Nat Rev Genet |year=2008… …
5Developmental toxicity — is any structural or functional alteration, reversible or irreversible, which interferes with homeostasis, normal growth, differentiation, development or behaviour, and which is caused by environmental insult (including drugs, lifestyle factors… …
6Economic base analysis — was developed by Robert Murray Haig in his work on the Regional Plan of New York in 1928. Briefly, activities in an area divide into two categories – basic and non basic. Basic industries are those exporting from the region; non basic (or… …
7Apert syndrome — Infobox Disease Name = Apert syndrome Caption = DiseasesDB = 33968 ICD10 = ICD10|Q|87|0|q|80 ICD9 = ICD9|755.55 ICDO = OMIM = 101200 MedlinePlus = 001581 eMedicineSubj = ped eMedicineTopic = 122 MeshID = D000168 Apert syndrome, virtually… …
8Hereditary equine regional dermal asthenia — (HERDA) aka hyperelastosis cutis (HC) is an inherited autosomal recessive connective tissue disorder. It develops from a homozygous recessive mutation that weakens collagen fibers that allow the skin of the animal to stay connected to the rest of …
9carrier — 1. A person or animal that harbors a specific infectious agent in the absence of discernible clinical disease and serves as a potential source of infection. 2. Any chemical capable of accepting an atom …
10Chronobiotic — is a substance that is capable of therapeutically re entering short term dissociated or long term desynchronized circadian rhythms, or prophylactically preventing their disruption following an environmental insult. In more simple words,… …
