making sounds

matter from the stomach that returns against the normal direction of peristalsis and may be ejected from the mouth by vomiting

the tendency of a solution to lose water molecules

the act of separating the young from their nursing mother, as they become dependant on other foodstuffs for their nourishment

the set time that must pass, after giving a medicine to a food-producing animal, before it can be slaughtered for meat or its products used for human food

a type of high energy electromagnetic radiation

a disease that can be passed from animals to people. Plural: zoonoses

structure formed from the fusion of two gametes and which contains the diploid number of chromosomes