Significance is defined as the quality of being important. In medicine, we distinguish between statistical significance and clinical importance.Statistical Significance. Medical studies are carried out on selected samples of people, but the goal is to apply the findings to another population (e.g., your patients).n medicine, we distinguish between statistical significance and clinical importance. Statistical Significance. Medical studies are carried out on selected samples of people, but the goal is to apply the findings to another population (e.g., your patients).
Cyanide is manufactured and distributed for use in the gold and silver mining industries in a variety of physical and chemical forms, including solid briquettes, flake cyanide and liquid cyanide. Sodium cyanide is supplied as either briquettes or liquid, while calcium cyanide is supplied in flake form and also in liquid form.
1 Photography, chemical research, synthetic plastics, metal processing, and electroplating industries use cyanide. 2  Plants containing cyanide include apricot pits and a type of potato called cassava. 3  Fortunately, only chronic or massive ingestion of any of these plants or pits can lead to serious cyanide poisoning. One of the side effects of laetrile is cyanide poisoning. 2  The FDA has not approved laetrile as a cancer treatment in the United States. 3  The drug is also made and used as a cancer treatment in Mexico under the name laetrile/amygdalin.. 4  Certain chemicals, after ingestion, can be converted by the body into cyanide.