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collateral sciences
noun
Plural of collateral science
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The collateral sciences are those sciences that have an important role in medicine but do not form part of medicine themselves, especially physics, chemistry, and botany (because botany is a rich source of drugs and poisons).
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Tensions with Russia over the unrest in Ukraine are inflicting collateral damage on science.
But now the rich countries want us to be collateral damage," said Albert Binger, science adviser to the alliance.
(See Mass MOCA's "Unnatural Science" show for collateral confirmation).
The initiative could result in "major collateral damage" to NASA's science program, he said, and damage the balance the agency has traditionally maintained between human space flight and fundamental science.
Just maybe, before we take out that mortgage with our struggling economy as collateral, we ought to see how the science develops.
Her culinary skill was a collateral blessing.
The BBC also received collateral damage for spending too much time revering science, as did my own experiment at Cern, the particle physics laboratory near Geneva, just for being there.
The answer is that far from being a science-led initiative in which humanities are collateral damage, open access to books matters precisely because the humanities matter.
Collateral power, collateral damage.
No collateral, said JPMorgan.
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