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smoke

1. a coat color of cats that consists of white hairs with black or blue tips. The intensity of the tip color varies on different parts of the body so that the face and back are very strongly colored.

2. a color variety of longhaired cats with orange or copper-colored eyes and a blue or black smoke coat color.

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smoke bombs

after ignition may contaminate pasture with phosphorus.

smoke inhalation

animals confined in buildings, especially horses, suffer pulmonary congestion and edema after inhaling smoke from a building fire.

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'smoke' Imaging A haziness occasionally seen by transesophageal echocardiography in the left atrium, a sign of blood stasis, fancifully likened to smoke, which corresponds to the spontaneous presence of contrast; 'smoke' is associated with ↑ thromboembolism. Cf Atrial systolic failure, Moya-moya disease Vox populi Fumes produced by a lit cigarette and its slave. See Sidestream cigarette smoke.