Glossary with audio assistance
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Vocalizationmaking sounds | |
Vomitusmatter from the stomach that returns against the normal direction of peristalsis and may be ejected from the mouth by vomiting | |
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Water potentialthe tendency of a solution to lose water molecules | |
Weaningthe act of separating the young from their nursing mother, as they become dependant on other foodstuffs for their nourishment | |
Withdrawal periodthe 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 | |
Wool hairthe fine soft hairs that make up the undercoat | |
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X-raya type of high energy electromagnetic radiation | |
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Zoonosisa disease that can be passed from animals to people. Plural: zoonoses | |
Zygotestructure formed from the fusion of two gametes and which contains the diploid number of chromosomes | |