Elimination - Science and Medicine

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  • Elimination reaction, an organic reaction in which two functional groups split to form an organic product
  • Elimination, clearance of a drug or other foreign agent from the body
  • Elimination, the destruction of an infectious disease in one region of the world as opposed to its eradication from the entire world

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