Monazite is a primarily reddish-brown phosphate mineral that contains rare-earth elements. Due to variability in composition, monazite is considered a group of minerals. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monazite)
The powdery mildew Erysiphe berberidis overwinters on evergreen mahonias on the leaves, where it is maintained even during the winter. (Forest Protection Service Slovakia. Erysiphe berberidis https://www.forestpests.eu/pest/erysiphe-berberidis)
Any action of hygienic hand antisepsis in order to reduce transient microbial flora (generally performed either by handrubbing with an alcohol-based formulation or handwashing with plain or antimicrobial soap and water). (https://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Hand_Hygiene_Why_How_and_When_Brochure.pdf)
A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects from wrought iron or steel by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacksmith)
In medicine, a fluid that comes out of the body. Discharge can be normal or a sign of disease. (National Cancer Institute, 2024. NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms. Discharge. https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/discharge)
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Deworming is the giving of an anthelmintic drug to a human or animal to rid them of helminths parasites, such as roundworm, flukes and tapeworm. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deworming)
Cattle of all ages are susceptible to infection with bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV). BVDV is a single linear positive-stranded RNA virus in the genus Pestivirus of the family Flaviviridae. BVDV infection results in a wide variety of clinical manifestations, including enteric and respiratory disease in any class of cattle or reproductive and fetal disease following infection of a susceptible breeding female. BVDV viruses also cause immune suppression. (https://www.woah.org/en/disease/bovine-viral-diarrhoea/)
The range and combination of activities and choices that people make in order to achieve their livelihood goals. Livelihood strategies include: how people combine their income generating activities; the way in which they use their assets; which assets they chose to invest in; and how they manage to preserve existing assets and income. (DFID, 2001. Sustainable livelihoods guidance sheets)
Climate of a prehistoric period whose main characteristics may be inferred, for example, from geological and paleobiological (fossil) evidence. (https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/ citing International meteorological vocabulary, Geneva : Secretariat of the World Meteorological Organization 1992.)
A concept associated with evolutionary theories of history and with structural functionalism. Societies are seen as moving from the simple to the complex via a process of social change based on structural differentiation. (GEMET http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/7791)
