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Caenis
Antonia Caenis or Cenide, a former slave and secretary of Antonia Minor (mother of the emperor Claudius), was the mistress or concubine of the Roman emperor Vespasian.
Caen stone
Caen stone , is a light creamy-yellow Jurassic limestone quarried in north-western France near the city of Caen. The limestone is a fine grained oolitic limestone formed in shallow water lagoons in the Bathonian Age about 167 million years ago.
Caen Hill Locks
Caen Hill Locks () are a flight of 29 locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Rowde and Devizes in Wiltshire, England.
Caen – Carpiquet Airport
Caen – Carpiquet Airport (IATA: CFR, ICAO: LFRK) is an international airport located in Carpiquet, 6 km west of Caen, both communes of the Calvados département in the Normandy (formerly Lower Normandy) region of France. Chalair Aviation has its head offices at the airport.
Caenidae
Caenidae, or the Small Squaregill Mayflies, is a family of insects consisting of 5 genera comprising 26 individual species. They are found throughout the world in lotic, depostional environments, and they are sprawlers.
Caenis (mayfly)
Caenis is a genus of mayflies. They are very small in size, sometimes with a body of only an 1/8 of an inch .
Caenisomopsis
Caenisomopsis is a genus of bristle flies in the family Tachinidae. There is at least one described species in Caenisomopsis, C. paraensis.
Caenimonas
Caenimonas is a genus from the family of Comamonadaceae.
Caenimonas koreensis
Caenimonas koreensis is a Gram-negative, strictly aerobic, rod-shaped and non-motile bacterium from the genus of Caenimonas which has been isolated from activated sludge in Pohang on Korea.
Caenispirillum
Caenispirillum is a bacterial genus from the family of Rhodospirillaceae.
Vitreous enamel
Vitreous enamel, also called porcelain enamel, is a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between 750 and 850 °C . The powder melts, flows, and then hardens to a smooth, durable vitreous coating.
Vitreous body
The vitreous body is the clear gel that fills the space between the lens and the retina of the eyeball of humans and other vertebrates. It is often referred to as the vitreous humor or simply "the vitreous".
Vitrectomy
Vitrectomy is surgery to remove some or all of the vitreous humor from the eye. Anterior vitrectomy entails removing small portions of the vitreous humor from the front structures of the eye—often because these are tangled in an intraocular lens or other structures.