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Greenhouse Effect

Medical Definition: 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.
Guide Notes: specify geog if pertinent; no qualif; DF: GREENHOUSE EFF
Also Called: Global Warming
Previously Indexed: Climate (1966-1993)

Greenhouse Effect Medical Definitions and Terms

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