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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) |
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