The starting point for much of the action on the field is home plate, which is a five-sided slab of whitened rubber, 17 inches square with two of the corners removed so that one edge is 17 inches long, two adjacent sides are 8 1â2 inches and the remaining two sides are 12 inches and set at an angle to make a point.
Medical Dictionary. hyperalimentation. play. noun hyÂ·perÂ·alÂ·iÂ·menÂ·taÂ·tion \ËhÄ«-pÉ-Ëral-É-mÉn-ËtÄ-shÉn\. Medical Definition of hyperalimentation. : the administration of nutrients by intravenous feeding especially to patients who cannot ingest food through the digestive tract.
Reassortment is the mixing of the genetic material of a species into new combinations in different individuals. Several different processes contribute to reassortment, including assortment of chromosomes, and chromosomal crossover. It is particularly used when two similar viruses that are infecting the same cell exchange genetic material. In particular, reassortment occurs among influenza viruses, whose genomes consist of eight distinct segments of RNA.