Drainage is the natural or artificial removal of a surface's water and sub-surface water from an area with excess water. The internal drainage of most...
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A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of...
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Look up drainage system in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Drainage system may refer to: Drainage system (geomorphology), patterns formed by streams,...
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geomorphology, drainage systems, also known as river systems, are the patterns formed by the streams, rivers, and lakes in a particular drainage basin. They...
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Tile drainage is a form of agricultural drainage system that removes excess sub-surface water from fields to allow sufficient air space within the soil...
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Incision and drainage (I&D), also known as clinical lancing, are minor surgical procedures to release pus or pressure built up under the skin, such as...
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A drainage divide, water divide, ridgeline, watershed, water parting or height of land is elevated terrain that separates neighboring drainage basins....
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despite the changes in underlying rock topography. A stream with a dendritic drainage pattern, for example, can be subject to slow tectonic uplift. However,...
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Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. (ADS) designs, manufactures and markets polypropylene and polyethylene pipes, plastic leach field chambers and systems...
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Irrigation (redirect from Irrigation and Drainage)
livestock, reduce dust, dispose of sewage, and support mining operations. Drainage, which involves the removal of surface and sub-surface water from a given...
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Storm drain (redirect from Drainage of land)
houses and buildings can connect to the storm drain. Since many storm drainage systems are gravity sewers that drain untreated storm water into rivers...
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Acid mine drainage, acid and metalliferous drainage (AMD), or acid rock drainage (ARD) is the outflow of acidic water from metal mines and coal mines.[citation...
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Manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) is a type of manual manipulation of the skin, not to be confused with massage, based on the hypothesis that it will encourage...
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Postural drainage (PD) is the drainage of lung secretions using gravity. It is used to treat a variety of conditions that cause the build-up of secretions...
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The list of drainage basins by area identifies basins (also known as "catchments" or, in North American usage, "watersheds"), sorted by area, which drain...
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digital thoracic drainage systems. Benefits of digital thoracic drainage systems". Nursing Times. 108 (11). Media related to Chest drainage at Wikimedia Commons...
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drainage are sensitive issues. Most drainage districts are administered by an internal drainage board (IDB), which are single purpose local drainage authorities...
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French drain (redirect from Drainage pit)
Assistant U.S. Treasury Secretary, described and popularized them in Farm Drainage (1859). French's own drains were made of sections of ordinary roofing tile...
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Endorheic basin (redirect from Internal drainage system)
(/ˌɛndoʊˈriː.ɪk/ EN-doh-REE-ik; also endoreic basin and endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other, external...
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Drainage gradient (DG) is a term in road design, defined as the combined slope due to road surface cross slope (CS) and longitudinal slope (hilliness)...
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Wickrama, Ministry Secretary Child agencies National Water Supply and Drainage Board Department of National Community Water Supply Website mcpws.gov.lk...
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Drainage model may refer to: a surface drainage model or rainfall-runoff model; see surface runoff, runoff model (reservoir) a subsurface (groundwater)...
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Bile duct (redirect from Bile drainage)
scarring after injury to the bile duct during gallbladder removal. Biliary drainage is performed with a tube or catheter (called a biliary drain, biliary stent...
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Drainage density is a quantity used to describe physical parameters of a drainage basin. First described by Robert E. Horton, drainage density is defined...
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Lymphatic system (redirect from Lymphatic drainage)
due to poor lymphatic drainage) or groin (causing swelling of the leg). Conventional treatment is by manual lymphatic drainage and compression garments...
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Lymphedema (redirect from Lymphatic drainage massage)
includes compression therapy, good skin care, exercise, and manual lymphatic drainage (MLD), which together are known as combined decongestive therapy. Diuretics...
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Bedford Level Corporation (redirect from Bedford Level: Drainage Act 1772)
ground. Agriculture has only been made possible by a co-ordinated system of drainage ditches. During medieval times this was controlled by the great monasteries...
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Sustainable drainage systems (also known as SuDS, SUDS, or sustainable urban drainage systems) are a collection of water management practices that aim...
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An agricultural drainage system is a system by which water is drained on or in the soil to enhance agricultural production of crops. It may involve any...
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Windpump (redirect from Drainage windmills)
the UK, the term windpump is rarely used, and they are better known as drainage windmills. Many of these were built in The Broads and The Fens of East...
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