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Biogeochemical province

The biogeochemical province (Greek bios – life, belonging to life, to vital processes + Greek ge – the earth + Greek chymeia, from chymos – juice) – the territory differing in the lowered or increased content in water or the soil and also in organisms inhabiting this territory of plants and animal one or several chemical elements; at the person within the biogeochemical province the certain local diseases directly depending on redundancy or insufficiency of these elements and also the infectious diseases caused by features of development of biogeocenoses can be noted.

 
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