Nouns denoting natural proesses
- telophase
- the final stage of mitosis
- haematochezia
- passage of stools containing blood (as from diverticulosis or colon cancer or peptic ulcer)
- conglutination
- healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
- rigor mortis
- muscular stiffening that begins 2 to 4 hours after death and lasts for about 4 days
- metaphase
- the second stage of meiosis
- meiosis
- (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)
- intrusion
- the forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata of an earlier rock formation
- transduction
- (genetics) the process of transfering genetic material from one cell to another by a plasmid or bacteriophage
- loss
- gradual decline in amount or activity
- apogamy
- (botany) development of an embryo without fertilization; especially the development in some ferns of a sporophyte from the gametophyte without fertilization
- aphesis
- the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire'
- double replacement reaction
- a chemical reaction between two compounds where the positive ion of one compound is exchanged with the positive ion of another compound
- idealization
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad
- ulceration
- the process of ulcer formation; the process of becoming ulcerated
- electrostatic precipitation
- a process that removes suspended dust particles from a gas by applying a high voltage electrostatic charge to the particles and collecting them on charged plates
- anovulation
- the absence of ovulation due to immaturity or post-maturity or pregnancy or oral contraceptive pills or dysfunction of the ovary
- detrition
- erosion by friction
- heterospory
- the development of both microspores and megaspores
- Solvay process
- an industrial process for producing sodium carbonate from sodium chloride and ammonia and carbon dioxide
- smoking
- a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion
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