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The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia 10-01-1996 mechanism, 1. an instrument of process by which something is done, results, or comes into being. 2. a machine or machinelike system. 3. a stimulus-response system. 4. a habit or drive. The ideas, procedures and suggestions contained in this encyclopedia are ...
October 1, 1996; The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia

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