Science
- Cardiovascular system, the organs that circulate substances between cells
- Cyclic vomiting syndrome, an illness characterized by recurring attacks of nausea and vomiting
- Chorionic villus sampling, a form of prenatal testing
- Computer vision syndrome, a condition resulting from excessive computer display use
- CVS (enzyme), the enzyme responsible for the biosynthesis of valencene
- Chromous-Volatile Sulfide, used in environmental chemistry as the volatile part of natural sulfide after their oxidation by Cr2+
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“We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.”
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (b. 1926)
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—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
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