"Convection" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Transmission of energy or mass by a medium involving movement of the medium itself. The circulatory movement that occurs in a fluid at a nonuniform temperature owing to the variation of its density and the action of gravity. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed; Webster, 10th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D018481
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G01.906.230
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| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Convection" by people in Profiles.
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Sherman TI, Greenspan JS, St Clair N, Touch SM, Shaffer TH. Optimizing the neonatal thermal environment. Neonatal Netw. 2006 Jul-Aug; 25(4):251-60.