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geographic pattern

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geographic pattern
A general descriptor for lesions in which large areas of one color, histologic pattern, or radiologic density with variably scalloped borders sharply interface with another color, pattern or density, fancifully likened to national boundaries and/or coastlines Imaging Broad areas of patchy destruction, seen in such diverse conditions as Gaucher disease, histiocytosis X, osteolytic tumors–eg, metastatic bronchogenic carcinoma and osteosarcoma


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The Small Business Act requires the federal government to give at least 23 percent of contract dollars to small companies, but there's no requirement that contract dollars be awarded in any geographic pattern.
For instance, they will look at the geographic patterns of suburbia and how those patterns affect such things as shellfish productivity and nitrogen levels in the water.
In Europe and the United States, the geographic pattern of influenza epidemics has been studied extensively, yet mostly at the national level with few local studies (1-6).
 
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