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quarantine
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quarantine
Legal restriction of the movement of plant pests (or the products that may be harboring them) into areas where they do not occur. Found op http://ppathw3.cals.cornell.edu/glossary/Defs_Q.htm
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All operations associated with prevention of importation of unwanted organisms into a territory or that exportation from it e.g. the holding of imported material in isolation for a period to ensure freedom from diseases and pests. (1) A legal action in which there is a control on the import and e... Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php
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[Verb] To separate from other people to stop the spread of disease. Example: The patients were quarantined in a separate ward until the cause of their illness could be found out.
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quarantine
[n] - enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease 2. [n] - isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease 3. [v] - place into enforce isolation, as for medical reasons Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=quarantine
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Quarantine: The period of isolation decreed to control the spread of infectious disease. Before the era of antibiotics, quarantine was one of the few available means for halting the spread of infectious diseases. It is still employed as needed. The list of quarantinable diseases in the US includes c... Found op http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.html?articlekey=5169
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Quar'an·tine noun [ French quarantaine , Old French quaranteine , from French quarante forty, Latin quadraginta , akin to quattuor four, and English four : confer Italian quarantina , quarentine Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/Q/4
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Quar`an·tine' transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Quarantined ; present participle & verbal noun Quarantining .] To compel to remain at a distance, or in a given place, without in... Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/Q/4
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quarantine
The limitation on the freedom of movement of an individual, to prevent spread of a disease to other members of a population. ... (09 Oct 1997) ... Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?quarantine
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quarantine
noun isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=quarantine
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quarantine
noun enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=quarantine
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quarantine
(kwor´әn-tēn) (kwahr´әn-tēn) restriction of freedom of movement of apparently well individuals who have been exposed to infectious disease, which is imposed for the usual maximal incubation period of the disease (quarantine period). quarantine period. th... Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001
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Quarantine
• (n.) Specifically, the term, originally of forty days, during which a ship arriving in port, and suspected of being infected a malignant contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the shore; hence, such restraint or inhibition of intercourse; also, the place where infected... Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/quarantine/
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the detention or restraint of humans or other creatures that may have come into contact with communicable disease until it is deemed certain that ... [5 related articles] Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/q/4
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[Red Dwarf] "Quarantine" is the fourth episode of science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf Series V and the twenty eighth in the series run. It was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 12 March 1992. The episode, fifth to be filmed, was the first one to be solely directed by Rob... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(Red_Dwarf)
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Quarantine
[video game] Quarantine is a 1994 racing/first-person shooter computer game for MS-DOS and 3DO, created by Imagexcel and published by GameTek. In the game the player drives a taxicab through a post-apocalyptic city, picking up customers and killing enemies. Due to the gratuitous violence the... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(video_game)
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[disambiguation] Quarantine is a medical term for the act of keeping an object in enforced isolation for a period of time to limit or prevent the spread of disease or infection. Quarantine may also refer to: ... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(disambiguation)
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[Jim Crace novel] Quarantine is a novel by Jim Crace. It was the winner of the 1997 Whitbread Novel Award, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction the same year. ==Plot summary== Set in the Judean desert, 2000 years ago. It features 7 main characters: ==Editions== ... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(Jim_Crace_novel)
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Quarantine
[record label] Quarantine is an English drum and bass record label owned by DJ Fierce. == See also == ... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(record_label)
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[The Twilight Zone] "Quarantine" is the second segment of the seventeenth episode from the first season (1985–1986) of the television series The Twilight Zone. ==Plot== A man awakens from an apparently long sleep. His caretaker, a young woman, wants him to confirm that he was put in cryoge... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(The_Twilight_Zone)
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[Greg Egan novel] Quarantine is a hard science fiction novel by Greg Egan. Within a detective fiction framework, the novel explores the consequences of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics (or rather of its consciousness causes collapse variant), which Egan acknowledges was cho... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(Greg_Egan_novel)
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Quarantine is compulsory isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous, often but not always disease. The word comes from the Italian (seventeenth century Venetian) quarantena, meaning forty-day period. Quarantine can be applied to humans, but also to animals of vario... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine
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quarantine
- enforced isolation to prevent spread of disease
- isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease
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The period during which a person or animal must be kept under observation in isolation from the community after having been in contact with an infectious disease. The duration of quarantine depends on the disease(s) concerned and their maximum incubation period. The term derives from the period of 4... Found op http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/Q/quarantine.html
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quarantine (kwor'untēn) , isolation of persons, animals, places, and effects that carry or are suspected of harboring communicable disease. The term originally referred to the 40 days of offshore wait during which incoming vessels could not discharge passengers or cargo in the era when pla... Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0840726.html
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Quarantine
The space of forty days, or a less quantity of time, during which the crew, or cargo, of a ship or vessel coming from a port or place infected or supposed to be infected with disease, are required to remain on board after their arrival, before they can be permitted to land. The object of the quarant... Found op http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/q080.htm
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