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pitch

phys. Term that refers to our subjective impression about the “highhess” or “lowness” of a tone, which is related to the frequency of the tone. A high-frequency vibrating source produces […]

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pituitary gland

biol. A gland at the base of the brain in vertebrate animals that releases hormones that regulate the function of most of the body’s other hormone-producing glands and organs, including […]

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placebo

biol. A substance that is not medicine, but that is given to someone who is told that it is a medicine, used to test the effect of a drug or to please a patient. སྨན་མིན་པའི་དངོས་རྫས་ཤིག་སྨན་ཡིན་པ་ལྟར་དུ་ནད་པ་ལ་སྤྲད་དེ་སྨན་རྫས་ཀྱི་ཤུགས་རྐྱེན་ལ་བརྟག་དཔྱད་བྱེད་པའམ་ཡང་ན་ནད་པ་ལ་སྤྲོ་སྣང་སློང་བ་ཞིག

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placenta

biol. In mammals, an organ consisting of embryonic and maternal tissue to which the foetus is attached via the umbilical cord. The placenta is the ‘life-support system‘ for the foetus: […]

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