Nouns denoting natural proesses
- erosion
- a gradual decline of something
- translocation
- (genetics) an exchange of chromosome parts
- decoction
- (pharmacology) the extraction of water-soluble drug substances by boiling
- organic evolution
- (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
- opsonisation
- process whereby opsonins make an invading microorganism more susceptible to phagocytosis
- Riss glaciation
- the next-to-last Pleistocene glaciation in the Alps and the deposits laid down at that time
- Krebs citric acid cycle
- in all plants and animals: a series of enzymatic reactions in mitochondria involving oxidative metabolism of acetyl compounds to produce high-energy phosphate compounds that are the source of cellular energy
- geological process
- (geology) a natural process whereby geological features are modified
- carbonation
- saturation with carbon dioxide (as soda water)
- precipitation
- the process of forming a chemical precipitate
- dedifferentiation
- the loss of specialization in form or function
- scattering
- the physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions
- discharge
- any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
- vermiculation
- the process of wavelike muscle contractions of the alimentary tract that moves food along
- urge incontinence
- urinary incontinence that is generally attributable to involuntary contracts of the bladder muscle resulting in an urgent need to urinate accompanied by a sudden loss of urine; most common in people over 60 years of age
- deflation
- (geology) the erosion of soil as a consequence of sand and dust and loose rocks being removed by the wind
- deossification
- the loss of the mineral content of bone tissue
- fission
- reproduction of some unicellular organisms by division of the cell into two more or less equal parts
- karyolysis
- disintegration and dissolution of a cell nucleus when a cell dies
- operation
- (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
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