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AMBER

(am'bĕr),

Acronym for advanced multiple-beam equalization radiography.

am·ber

(am'bĕr),

1. A hard, dark yellow to tan, fossilized resin derived from pine trees.

2. Having a dark yellow to tan color.

[Ar. anbar]

amber

Etymology: Ar, anbar

a hard fossilized resin derived from pine trees. An oil of amber, Oleum succini, has been used in some pharmaceutical preparations.

amber

A fossilised yellowish tree resin; amber has been used in Chinese medicine as a diuretic, nerve tonic, sedative, to dissolve blood clots, for amenorrhoea, cataracts, convulsions, hysteria and nocturnal emissions.

There is no peer-reviewed data to support or refute therapeutic efficacy.

AMBER

Advanced multi-beam equalisation radiography. A type of imaging that was tested and failed to improve over conventional chest radiography for diagnosing interstitial lung disease, emphysema, diffuse infiltrative disease, pulmonary nodules, mediastinal masses, calcifications of nodules and regional lymphadenopathy.

AMBER

(am'bĕr)

Acronym for advanced multiple-beam equalization radiography.

amber

hypericumperforatum.

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Amber can be found in many places, but the largest deposits are in the Baltic Sea, the Dominican Republic, and India.

Before and after

Amber is resin, exuded from the bark of trees, which has become fossilised over time - a very long time.

AMBER PRESERVE

Grimaldi, his museum colleague Enrique Penalver, and Xavier Delclos from the University of Barcelona found pieces of at least 26 strands of silk preserved in the amber fragment, which measured about 18 millimeters in length.

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