Volume (thermodynamics)In thermodynamics, the volume of a system is an important extensive parameter for describing its thermodynamic state. The specific volume, an intensive property, is the system's volume per unit of mass. Volume is a function of state and is interdependent with other thermodynamic properties such as pressure and temperature. For example, volume is related to the pressure and temperature of an ideal gas by the ideal gas law. The physical volume of a system may or may not coincide with a control volume used to analyze the system.
Tumors of the hematopoietic and lymphoid tissuesTumors of the hematopoietic and lymphoid tissues (American English) or tumours of the haematopoietic and lymphoid tissues (British English) are tumors that affect the blood, bone marrow, lymph, and lymphatic system. Because these tissues are all intimately connected through both the circulatory system and the immune system, a disease affecting one will often affect the others as well, making aplasia, myeloproliferation and lymphoproliferation (and thus the leukemias and the lymphomas) closely related and often overlapping problems.
SyncytiumEn biologie, un syncytium (du grec ancien , « ensemble » et , « cavité, cellule ») est une cellule (appelée cénocyte ou cœnocyte) provenant de la fusion de plusieurs cellules. Cette masse cytoplasmique est à différencier des plasmodes qui correspondent à la multiplication sans cytodiérèse de cellules (ostéoclastes). Le symplasme est un syncytium composé de cellules végétales reliées par des plasmodesmes . Le syncytiotrophoblaste, un tissu du placenta. Les syncytiums de globules blancs, dont la formation est provoquée par le VIH.
