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Oxygen
The chemical symbol is O. A gaseous element that combines with other elements to form oxides. A chemical element that is a common colourless gas which is present in the air and essential to human life. Colorless, odorless gas essential for respiration and metabolism. A gas forming about 21% of atmospheric air; essential to respiration.…
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Owsley’s acid
Good quality LSD originally manufactured by Augustus Owsley Stanley III.
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Own children
Family members who are the sons and daughters, including stepchildren and adopted children, of the householder.
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Ovulation method
A contraceptive method entailing the identification of the approach and occurrence of ovulation by interpreting the cervical mucous pattern. When ovulation is occurring, abstinence from coitus is advised. A method of birth control that involves monitoring various changes in the body, to identify when ovulation has occurred; a kind of natural family planning. Couples who…
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Ovulation
The process of the ovary expelling an ovum in preparation for fertilization takes place approximately once every 28 days or once during the menstrual cycle during the reproductive years of the female. Release of a mature egg (ovum) from a woman’s ovaries into the fallopian tubes, where fertilization may take place. Ovulation generally occurs monthly,…
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Ovo vegetarian diet
A vegetarian diet that permits the use of eggs.
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Ovolactovegetarianism
A diet that excludes the ingestion of all meats but that does allow for the consumption of eggs and dairy products. An individual who includes fruits, milk, vegetables, milk products, eggs, and cheese in the diet but not meat.
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Ovist
A preformationist who believed that the egg rather than the sperm carried the miniature but complete organism.
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Oviduct
The tube that carries the ova from the ovary to the uterus.
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Overtone
In a complex tone, any of the tones of higher pitch. The frequencies of the multiples of those of the fundamental tone.
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