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VAI [4 records]

Record 1 2021-09-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optical Instruments
  • Target Acquisition
  • Small Arms
OBS

individual weapon sight; IWS: designations officially approved by the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments d'optique
  • Acquisition d'objectif
  • Armes légères
OBS

viseur d'arme individuelle; VAI : désignations uniformisées par le ministère de la Défense nationale et les Forces canadiennes.

Spanish

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Record 2 - external organization data 2017-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
Key term(s)
  • International Administrative Travels

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC)

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Respiratory System
  • Non-Surgical Treatment
DEF

Mechanical ventilation in which the patient breathes spontaneously while the ventilator delivers a positive-pressure breath at intervals that are predetermined but synchronized with the patient's breathing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareil respiratoire
  • Traitements non chirurgicaux
DEF

[Mode ventilatoire] associant cycles spontanés et cycles assistés, afin que les cycles du respirateur ne surviennent pas à contre-temps des cycles spontanés.

DEF

Association obligatoire d'une ventilation assistée contrôlée périodique et d'une ventilation spontanée du malade entre les cycles assistés.

CONT

On parte de ventilation obligatoire intermittente synchronisée, quand le système est pourvu d'un dispositif permettant de délivrer le volume courant obligatoire en phase avec une inspiration spontanée du malade.

OBS

respiration [ou ventilation] contrôlée : terme impropre, mais consacré par l'usage.

Spanish

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Record 4 1996-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

A language of the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo family spoken by the Vai, an ethnic group inhabiting the eastern part of Liberia and contiguous parts of Sierra Leone.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue du groupe mandé de la famille nigéro-congolaise parlée par les Vaï, peuple habitant le Liberia et les régions adjacentes de la Sierra Leone.

Spanish

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