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Flow control limits a sender according to a receiver's buffering or processing capacity, rather than the capacity of the intervening computer network.

Scala orders a class and its inherited traits to resolve member lookup and super calls. For two independent traits sharing a base, the rightmost mixed-in trait comes first, followed by the earlier trait and then the common base. Ordinary virtual calls start at the receiver's most specific override; an unqualified super call starts after the implementation's owner in that receiver's linearization. It does not necessarily call the textual parent of the trait in isolation.^[ref]

A Hausdorff compactification is a compact Hausdorff space $K$ with a topological embedding $j:X\to K$ whose image is dense. It retains the original topology on $X$ while adjoining boundary points. For a locally compact noncompact Hausdorff space, its one-point compactification is an example. For every Tychonoff space, the Stone-Čech compactification extends all continuous maps into compact Hausdorff targets.

A space is zero-dimensional when its topology has a base of clopen sets. In the Hausdorff setting these sets separate distinct points, so the space is totally disconnected. Conversely a compact Hausdorff totally disconnected space has a clopen base, by the Šura-Bura component lemma and finite subcovers of the complement of a neighborhood.

Fix a point $a$ of an uncountable set $X$ and declare $F$ closed when $a\in F$ or $F$ is countable. Finite unions and arbitrary intersections satisfy the closed-set axioms. Every convergent sequence is eventually constant: the countable set of its values different from the limit is closed, so its complement is a neighborhood of the limit. A real-valued map constant at $f(a)$ outside a countable set is continuous, because each closed inverse image either contains $a$ or lies in that countable exceptional set.

For a family of functions $f_i:X\to Y_i$ into topological spaces, the initial topology on $X$ is the coarsest topology making them all continuous. Its subbasis consists of $f_i^{-1}(U)$ for open subsets $U\subseteq Y_i$. A map into $X$ is continuous exactly when all its composites with the $f_i$ are continuous.

Erectile tissue is vascular tissue whose filling and outflow properties permit a substantial change in volume or stiffness. Its behavior depends on blood flow and smooth-muscle regulation, linking vascular physiology to organ mechanics. It is not simply ordinary muscle that becomes rigid by contracting.

The +2 oxidation state of tin. The actual aqueous species can depend on pH, hydrolysis and ligands; a bare ionic formula is an analytical shorthand.

The +4 oxidation state of tin. The actual aqueous species can depend on pH, hydrolysis and ligands; a bare ionic formula is an analytical shorthand.

A tin oxide whose hydrated forms may precipitate through hydrolysis of suitable tin(IV) solutions.

The yellow sulfide used in qualitative recognition of suitable tin(IV) solutions.

The brown or brown-black sulfide formed from suitable tin(II) solutions.

Coordinate time labels events in a chosen spacetime chart. It is distinct from proper time, which is measured by a clock along its timelike path. For a stationary observer in a static metric with signature $(+---)$, the rate is $d\tau =\sqrt{g_{tt}}dt$ in units with light speed one. Different stationary observers can therefore accumulate different proper times during the same coordinate-time interval.

Hypothyroidism is insufficient thyroid-hormone action resulting from inadequate hormone availability in the usual clinical setting. Dysfunction can arise in the thyroid or in its upstream control. Measuring thyroid-stimulating hormone and thyroid hormones helps distinguish those pathways.^[ref]

A goitre is enlargement of the thyroid. It is an anatomy description that can accompany different states of glandular secretion and different causes. Measuring the gland's size therefore answers a different question from measuring thyroid hormone secretion or its response to thyroid-stimulating hormone.

An inconstant enlarged origin of the thoracic duct in the upper lumbar region.

Chemical regulation of ventilation, including the combined stimulus of hypoxia, hypercapnia and acidity.

Chapter 2; arterial, venous and collateral anatomy.

The neurotoxin associated with tetanus. Neutralizing unbound toxin differs from reversing toxin already acting at neural targets.

An antibody preparation that can bind and neutralize unbound tetanospasmin. It supplies passive protection and differs from a vaccine, which induces the recipient’s own immune response.^[ref]