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biomedical waste

solids, liquids, sharps, and laboratory waste that are potentially infectious; any kind of waste containing infectious (or potentially infectious) materials
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biomedical waste

Summary

biomedical waste ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (152 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • biomedical waste's image is recorded as Sharps Container.jpg[2].
  • biomedical waste's image is recorded as Hospital waste 01.JPG[3].
  • biomedical waste's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh88007401[4].
  • biomedical waste's subclass of is recorded as waste[5].
  • biomedical waste's subclass of is recorded as hazardous waste[6].
  • biomedical waste's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 01077546[7].
  • biomedical waste's Commons category is recorded as Biomedical waste[8].
  • biomedical waste's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D008506[9].
  • biomedical waste's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04gkz_c[10].
  • biomedical waste's MeSH tree code is recorded as D20.944.460[11].
  • biomedical waste's MeSH tree code is recorded as N06.850.460.710.460[12].
  • biomedical waste's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph127571[13].
  • biomedical waste's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Biomedical waste[14].
  • biomedical waste's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1783[15].
  • biomedical waste's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000325893[16].
  • biomedical waste's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/infectious-waste[17].
  • biomedical waste's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/medical-waste[18].
  • biomedical waste's has effect is recorded as biological hazard[19].
  • biomedical waste's different from is recorded as hospital waste[20].
  • biomedical waste's by-product of is recorded as medical practice[21].
  • biomedical waste's Quora topic ID is recorded as Biomedical-Waste[22].
  • biomedical waste's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as medical-waste[23].
  • biomedical waste's UK Parliament thesaurus ID is recorded as 452557[24].
  • biomedical waste's WordLift URL is recorded as http://data.wordlift.io/wl01714/entity/medical-waste.html[25].
  • biomedical waste's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778960967[26].

Why It Matters

biomedical waste ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (152 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . fr.dentist. fr.dentist. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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