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  2. Pneumonia - Wikipedia

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    Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli. [3] [14] Symptoms typically include some combination of productive or dry cough, chest pain, fever, and difficulty breathing. [15]

  3. Classification of pneumonia - Wikipedia

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    Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is infectious pneumonia in a person who has not recently been hospitalized. CAP is the most common type of pneumonia. The most common causes of CAP vary depending on a person's age, but they include Streptococcus pneumoniae, viruses, the atypical bacteria, and Haemophilus influenzae.

  4. Chlamydia pneumoniae - Wikipedia

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    Chlamydia pneumoniae [1] is a species of Chlamydia, an obligate intracellular bacterium [2] that infects humans and is a major cause of pneumonia.It was known as the Taiwan acute respiratory agent (TWAR) from the names of the two original isolates – Taiwan (TW-183) and an acute respiratory isolate designated AR-39. [3]

  5. Iterative closest point - Wikipedia

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    Zhang [4] proposes a modified k-d tree algorithm for efficient closest point computation. In this work a statistical method based on the distance distribution is used to deal with outliers, occlusion, appearance, and disappearance, which enables subset-subset matching.

  6. Pneumoperitoneum - Wikipedia

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    Pneumoperitoneum is pneumatosis (abnormal presence of air or other gas) in the peritoneal cavity, a potential space within the abdominal cavity.The most common cause is a perforated abdominal organ, generally from a perforated peptic ulcer, although any part of the bowel may perforate from a benign ulcer, tumor or abdominal trauma.

  7. Backgammon match strategy - Wikipedia

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    A match equity table (MET) is a chart containing the probabilities of winning a match at various scores, assuming equally matched opponents. In match play, the important part of the score is how many points away each player is away from winning the match, i.e. a score 2-1 in a 5 point match or 8-7 in an 11 point match would both be 3-away 4 ...

  8. Powerplay (cricket) - Wikipedia

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    From 1 October 2011, the ICC brought additional changes to the bowling and batting powerplays. Under the new rules, in a 50-over match, neither of the two five-over powerplays may be taken before the start of the 16th over and both must be completed before the commencement of the 41st over, so overs 11 to 15 and 41 to 50 cannot be powerplay overs.

  9. Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport - Wikipedia

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    Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport (IATA: MRU, ICAO: FIMP) (French: Aéroport International Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam) is the primary international airport serving the island nation of Mauritius.