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Environment

Medical Definition:	The external elements and conditions which surround, influence, and affect the life and development of an organism or population.
Guide Notes:	no qualif; DF: ENVIR
Also Called:	Environmental Policies,Impacts, Environmental,Habitat

Environment Categories.

	Altitude
	Cities - A large or important municipality of a country, usually a major metropolitan center.
	Confined Spaces - A space which has limited openings for entry and exit combined with unfavorable natural ventilation such as caves, refrigerators, deep tunnels, pipelines, sewers, silos, tanks, vats, mines, deep trenches or pits, vaults, manholes, chimneys, etc.
	Conservation of Natural Resources - The protection, preservation, restoration, and rational use of all resources in the total environment.
	Disasters
	Ecosystem - A functional system which includes the organisms of a natural community together with their environment. (McGraw Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)
	Energy-Generating Resources - Natural energy sources of power supply.
	Environment Design - The structuring of the environment to permit or promote specific patterns of behavior.
	Environment, Controlled - A state in which the environs of hospitals, laboratories, domestic and animal housing, work places, spacecraft, and other surroundings are under technological control with regard to air conditioning, heating, lighting, humidity, ventilation, and other ambient features. The concept includes control of atmospheric composition. (From Jane's Aerospace Dictionary, 3d ed)
	Extraterrestrial Environment - The environment outside the earth or its atmosphere. The environment may refer to a closed cabin (such as a space shuttle or space station) or to space itself, the moon, or other planets.
	Greenhouse Effect - The effect of global warming and the resulting increase in world temperatures. The predicted health effects of such long-term climatic change include increased incidence of respiratory, water-borne, and vector-borne diseases.
	Meteorological Factors - The atmospheric phenomena which pertain to climate and weather.
	Noise
	Odors - The volatile portions of substances perceptible by the sense of smell. (Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed)
	Seasons

Environment Medical Definitions and Terms

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