Less common causes of dizziness include: 1  having a severe illness or condition that affects the whole body. 2  using recreational drugs or consuming excessive amounts of alcohol (either binge drinking or long-term alcohol misuse). 3  certain types of prescription medicine â such as antidepressants or blood pressure medication.
Fructification. 1. The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation. The prevalent fructification of plants. (Sir t. Brown) 2. (Science: botany) The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores. The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores. Origin: L. Fructificatio: cf. F. Fructification.
Biomagnification, also known as bioamplification or biological magnification, is the increase in concentration of a substance that occurs in a food chain as a consequence of: âPersistence âFood chain energetics âLow rate of internal degradation/excretion of the substance The following is an example showing how bio-magnification takes place in nature: An anchovy eats zoo-plankton that have tiny amounts of mercury that the zoo-plankton has picked up from the water throughout the ...