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  2. Integrated Taxonomic Information System - Wikipedia

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    Official logo of ITIS. The Integrated Taxonomic Information System ( ITIS) is an American partnership of federal agencies designed to provide consistent and reliable information on the taxonomy of biological species. [1] ITIS was originally formed in 1996 as an interagency group within the US federal government, involving several US federal ...

  3. Postprandial somnolence - Wikipedia

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    Postprandial somnolence (colloquially known as food coma, after-dinner dip, or "the itis") is a normal state of drowsiness or lassitude following a meal. Postprandial somnolence has two components: a general state of low energy related to activation of the parasympathetic nervous system in response to mass in the gastrointestinal tract, and a ...

  4. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    As a general rule, this vowel almost always acts as a joint-stem to connect two consonantal roots (e.g. arthr-+ -o-+ -logy = arthrology), but generally, the -o-is dropped when connecting to a vowel-stem (e.g. arthr-+ -itis = arthritis, instead of arthr-o-itis). Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek ...

  5. Medical terminology - Wikipedia

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    Medical terminology is a language used to precisely describe the human body including all its components, processes, conditions affecting it, and procedures performed upon it. Medical terminology is used in the field of medicine . Medical terminology has quite regular morphology, the same prefixes and suffixes are used to add meanings to ...

  6. Information technology - Wikipedia

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    Information science. Information technology ( IT) is a set of related fields that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, and data and information processing, and storage. [1] IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). [2] An information technology system ( IT system) is generally an information ...

  7. Inflammation - Wikipedia

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    Inflammation (from Latin: inflammatio) is part of the biological response of body tissues to harmful stimuli, such as pathogens, damaged cells, or irritants. [1] [2] The five cardinal signs are heat, pain, redness, swelling, and loss of function (Latin calor, dolor, rubor, tumor, and functio laesa ). Inflammation is a generic response, and ...

  8. Industrial training institute - Wikipedia

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    Industrial training institutes ( ITI) and industrial training centers ( ITC) is a qualification and are post-secondary schools in India constituted under the Directorate General of Training (DGT), Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Union Government, to provide training in various trades. [2] [3]

  9. Itis - Wikipedia

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    Itis (Swedish name of Iitti), a municipality in Päijänne Tavastia, Finland; Other uses. Itis shopping centre, a shopping centre in the district of Itäkeskus in East Helsinki, Finland "The Itis" (The Boondocks), the tenth episode of the Adult Swim animated television series, The Boondocks