Atherosclerosis is a major cause of abdominal aortic aneurysm and is the most common kind of arteriosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. This disease process can be seen in any blood vessel in the body and is the cause of coronary artery disease, stroke, and peripheral arterial disease (PAD) .
Definition of Osmia. : a cosmopolitan genus of solitary bees (family Megachilidae) including several that are important pollinators of economic plants.
Macadamia is a genus of four species of trees indigenous to Australia and constituting part of the plant family Proteaceae. They are native to north eastern New South Wales and central and south eastern Queensland.he species previously named in this Macadamia genus may still be referred to overall by the descriptive, non-scientific name of macadamia; their disjunct distributions and current scientific names are: 1  New Caledonia endemic genus Virotia in 1975 having only the type species, then by 2008 all six endemic species.