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  • Fever

    Also known as pyrexia, a body temperature above the human normal 98.6ºF (37ºC).

  • FF

    Furan Formaldehyde

  • FF&E

    Furniture, Fixtures, and Equipment

  • FFU

    Fan-Filter Unit

  • FG

    Finished Goods

  • FHA

    Filamentous Haemaglutinin

  • FHA

    Federal Housing Administration

  • FIBC

    Flexible Intermediate-Bulk Container

  • Fiber

    Particle having an aspect (length to width) ratio of 10 or more. ISO 14644-1, ISO 14644-5.

  • Fiber Optics

    Communications systems that use optical fibers for transmission.

  • Fibrin

    A plasma protein that, in its aggregated state, is the major component of a blood clot. It is produced from fibrinogen, a soluble precursor, by the action of the proteolytic enzyme, thrombin.

  • Fibrinogen

    In the clotting of blood it is known as Factor I. The plasma protein that becomes converted to a clot at the end of the coagulation process. Present in plasma; absent in serum.

  • Fibroblasts

    A type of cell found just underneath the surface of the skin. Fibroblasts are part of the support structure for tissues and organs.

  • Fichier de documents originaux (Master document file)

  • FIDIC

    Fédération Internationale Des Ingénieurs-Conseils

  • Field

    (ISO) On a data medium or in storage, a specified area used for a particular class of data; e.g., a group of character positions used to enter or display wage rates on a screen.

  • Field

    Defined logical data that is part of a record.

  • Field

    The elementary unit of a record that may contain a data item, a data aggregate, a pointer, or a link.

  • Field

    A discrete location in a database that contains an unique piece of information. A field is a component of a record. A record is a component of a database.

  • FIFO

    First-In-First-Out

  • FIFRA

    Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (EPA Regulations)

  • FIH

    First in Human

  • File

    (ISO) A set of related records treated as a unit; e.g., in stock control, a file could consists of a set of invoices.

  • File

    The largest unit of storage structure that consists of a named collection of all occurrences in a database of records of a particular record type. Synonym: Data Set.

  • File Maintenance

    (ANSI) The activity of keeping a file up to date by adding, changing, or deleting data.