(n.) The decimal part of a logarithm, as distinguished from the integral part, or characteristic.
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(1) Manufacturer is VEB Mantissa Dresden, sales department is Staatliches Versorgungskontor für Pharmazie und Medizintechnik.
Significand
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(1) A freeze-etch study of nuclear pores performed on human lymphocytes, epidermal and corneal cells, on hamster fibroblasts, on rat and hamster sarcoma cells and cells from a human malignant melanoma, revealed that the frequency of pores as a part of very important biological cellular structures increases in proliferating cells, and that there is a statistically significand difference between normal and tumor cells.
(2) Thus, HVA was significandly reduced in the patients with epilepsy compared with the controls.