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n.

The fraction of a substance removed from blood flowing through the kidney, calculated using the ratio of the concentrations of the substance in arterial and renal venous plasma.

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Let’s start with some etymology: What are the origins of the typographical word “bracket”?

First appeared around 1750, and is related to the French word “braguette” for the name of codpiece armor.

First appeared in 1610, based on the French word “baguette” for the long loaf of bread.

First appeared in 1555, and is related to the French word “raquette” for a netted bat.

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Carlisle writes that the Air Force would want a crew ratio of 10 to one for each drone orbit during normal everyday operations.
Exclusive: U.S. Drone Fleet at ‘Breaking Point,’ Air Force Says|Dave Majumdar|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
During an emergency that ratio could be allowed to drop to 8.5 people per orbit.
Exclusive: U.S. Drone Fleet at ‘Breaking Point,’ Air Force Says|Dave Majumdar|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
However, the Air Force is so strapped for people that the ratio has dropped below even that reduced level.
Exclusive: U.S. Drone Fleet at ‘Breaking Point,’ Air Force Says|Dave Majumdar|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The Italian navy tweeted regular updates of the saved-to-stranded passenger ratio.
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From that, they extracted the ratio of the number of deuterium atoms to the number of hydrogen atoms.
Are Comets the Origin of Earth’s Oceans?|Matthew R. Francis|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The fervor of an Englishman's loyalty is usually in a direct ratio with the extent of his material possessions.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
This ratio constitutes one of the most important points in diagnosis, since it is practically unknown in other diseases.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The cost of extraction varies in different localities, depending mainly on the mass of barren rock to be encountered and removed.
Asbestos|Robert H. Jones
The service is practically the same, but the ratio of charges is from two to three times higher in the coffee room.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car|Thomas D. Murphy
Four hundred thousand pounds probably bore as great a ratio to the wealth of Scotland then as forty millions would bear now.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay

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