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Port (medical) Portal system. It is installed under the skin, with the tube connected to a vein. External access is with a needle through the yellow membrane. Port-a-Cath with needle assembly inserted. In medicine, a port is a small medical appliance that is installed beneath the skin. A catheter (plastic tube) connects the port to a vein.
First flush. First flush is the initial surface runoff of a rainstorm. During this phase, water pollution entering storm drains in areas with high proportions of impervious surfaces is typically more concentrated compared to the remainder of the storm. Consequently, these high concentrations of urban runoff result in high levels of pollutants ...
Toilet paper. A full roll of toilet paper. Toilet paper and toilet paper holder; the paperboard center of a spent roll is visible on the holder. Toilet paper (sometimes called toilet tissue, [1] toilet roll, [1] or bathroom tissue [1]) is a tissue paper product primarily used to clean the anus and surrounding region of feces (after defecation ...
Early Man is a 2018 animated sports comedy film directed by Nick Park, the creator of Wallace and Gromit, Creature Comforts, Chicken Run, and Shaun the Sheep, written by Mark Burton and James Higginson, and starring the voices of Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, and Timothy Spall. The film follows a tribe of primitive Stone Age ...
Push-button. A push-button (also spelled pushbutton) or simply button is a simple switch mechanism to control some aspect of a machine or a process. Buttons are typically made out of hard material, usually plastic or metal. [1] The surface is usually flat or shaped to accommodate the human finger or hand, so as to be easily depressed or pushed.
Alexander Cumming FRSE (sometimes referred to as Alexander Cummings; 1733 – 8 March 1814) [1] was a Scottish watchmaker and instrument inventor, who was the first to patent a design of the flush toilet in 1775, which had been pioneered by Sir John Harington, but without solving the problem of foul smells.
Examples. Media. Opposition. v. t. e. The 2005 Quran desecration controversy began when Newsweek 's April 30, 2005, issue contained a report asserting that United States prison guards or interrogators had deliberately damaged a copy of the Quran . A week later, The New Yorker reported the words of Pakistani politician Imran Khan: "This is what ...
