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A color intermediate between blue and yellow, afforded by rays of wavelength between 492 and 575 nm.  

The appearance of vomiting, lack of sucking response, irregular and rapid respiration, abdominal distention, and cyanosis in newborn infants treated at birth with chloramphenicol. Flaccidity and an ashen-gray color are present within 24 hr. About 40% of the patients die, most frequently on the fifth day of life. Because of the risk of this rare…

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A diterpene cyclic hydrocarbon found in honey produced by bees that feed on rhododendrons. Consumption of tainted honey or rhododendrons results in nausea, vomiting, and numbness and tingling around the mouth and in the arms and legs. Weakness, loss of coordination, and heart rhythm disturbances rarely occur, and only after massive ingestion. The poisoning typically…

The force and movement tending to draw every particle of matter together, especially the attraction of the earth for bodies at a distance from its center.  

Resulting from gravitation, as in a form of gravistatic pulmonary congestion.  

To cardiac disorders that result from the physiological changes associated with pregnancy.  

Rapid enlargement of the breasts during pregnancy. This may progress to cause severe distention with sloughing of breast tissue, bleeding, and infection. Surgical therapy may be required.  

Ophthalmopathy associated with hyperthyroidism with the clinical characteristics of exophthalmos, periorbital edema, periorbital and conjunctival inflammation, decreased extraocular muscle mobility, and corneal injury. Accompanying these may be lacrimation, eye pain, blurring of vision, photophobia, diplopia, and loss of vision.