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51carry weight — have influence, have power Nina is a good reference; her name carries a lot of weight …
52gutted weight — weight measured after the guts have been discarded at sea. A conversion factor is used for each species to obtain total weight …
53carry much weight (to) — Have significant meaning. ► “A clinical pathway by itself may not carry much weight in defending a medical malpractice claim. A pathway should be integral to the medical record and should include outcome criteria and a variance record.”… …
54Cigarette smoking for weight loss — is a practice dating to early knowledge of nicotine as an appetite suppressant. Tobacco use was associated with appetite suppression among pre Columbian indigenous Americans, and old world Europeans.[1] For decades, tobacco companies have… …
55Low birth weight paradox — The low birth weight paradox is an apparently paradoxical observation relating to the birth weights and mortality of children born to tobacco smoking mothers. Low birth weight children born to smoking mothers have a lower infant mortality rate… …
56Birth weight — is the weight of a baby at its birth. It has direct links with the gestational age at which the child was born and can be estimated during the pregnancy by measuring fundal height. A baby born within the normal range of weight for that… …
57Low molecular weight heparin — In medicine, low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) is a class of medication used as an anticoagulant in diseases that feature thrombosis, as well as for prophylaxis in situations that lead to a high risk of thrombosis.[1] Thrombotic disease or… …
58National Weight Control Registry — The National Weight Control Registry (NWCR) is a research study that includes people (18 years or older) who have lost at least 13.6 kg (30 lbs) of weight and kept it off for at least one year. There are currently over 10,000 members enrolled in… …
59Gross vehicle weight rating — A gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) is the maximum allowable total weight of a road vehicle or trailer when loaded i.e including the weight of the vehicle itself plus fuel, passengers, cargo, and trailer tongue weight. The difference between… …
60Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene — (UHMWPE or sometimes shortened to UHMW), also known as high modulus polyethylene (HMPE) or high performance polyethylene (HPPE), is a subset of the thermoplastic polyethylene. It has extremely long chains, with molecular weight numbering in the… …
