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compartment
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compartment
a part of the body as a whole and divided from the rest by a physical partition.

fluid compartment
that liquid part of the body excluded by cell membranes. Includes intravascular and intercellular compartments.
compartment syndrome
muscles which are contained in an aponeurotic sheath may be subjected to serious ischemia as a result of increase in the size of the muscle as a result of vigorous muscular activity.


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He went to hospital, where a mass of blood near his ankle was diagnosed as compartmental syndrome.
To get a further insight in pharmacokinetics of dodeca-2E, 4E, 8Z, 10E/Z-tetraenoic isobutylamides a compartmental population pharmacokinetic model was developed applying mixed effect modelling procedure.
The ARB automatically updates and pulls data from other databases and is set up for authorized customers and compartmental personnel to have customized views of the data.
 
 
 
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