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| Domain | Definition |
Health | Management, removal, and elimination of biologic, infectious, pathologic, and dental waste. The concept includes blood, mucus, tissue removed at surgery or autopsy, soiled surgical dressings, and other materials requiring special control and handling. Disposal may take place where the waste is generated or elsewhere. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Foreign suppliers specializing in medical waste treatment, such as medical waste disposal and also medical waste incineration equipment and services, will see excellent opportunities in this sector over the next 5-10 years. (references) | |
The government recently passed a law concerning proper medical waste disposal and action is now being taken concerning the institutions (30 percent of total pathological waste) that do not have appropriate installations for its treatment and elimination. (references) | ||
Economic History | South Africa | As a response to the increase prevalence of diseases such as AIDS, more construction of provincial hospitals will afford opportunities to implement new and affordable technology to replace the current medical waste disposal methods. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
medical waste disposal | 30 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 45 44 49 43 41 4C 57 41 53 54 45 44 49 53 50 4F 53 41 4C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01000101 01000100 01001001 01000011 01000001 01001100 00100000 01010111 01000001 01010011 01010100 01000101 00100000 01000100 01001001 01010011 01010000 01001111 01010011 01000001 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M E D I C A L   W A S T E   D I S P O S A L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0045 0044 0049 0043 0041 004C 0057 0041 0053 0054 0045 0044 0049 0053 0050 004F 0053 0041 004C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)473938433735462573553543923843535049533546 |
| 1. Usage: Commercial 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Orthography | 5. Bibliography |
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