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function medical definition
noun
- The physiological property or the special action of an organ or body part.
- Something closely related to another thing and dependent on it for its existence, value, or significance, such as growth resulting from nutrition.
- A mathematical variable so related to another that for each value assumed by one there is a value determined for the other.
- A rule of correspondence between two sets such that there is a unique element in the second set assigned to each element in the first set.
- The general properties of a substance, depending on its chemical character and relation to other substances, that provide the basis upon which it may be grouped as among acids or bases.
- A particular reactive grouping in a molecule.
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