Science and Medicine
- Elimination reaction, an organic reaction in which two functional groups split to form an organic product
- Elimination, clearance of a drug or other foreign agent from the body
- Elimination, the destruction of an infectious disease in one region of the world as opposed to its eradication from the entire world
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