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  1. acclimation, or acclimatization
  2. The physiological changes induced in an
  3. organism by exposure to new environmental
  4. conditions. When humans move to higher
  5. altitudes, for example, the number of red
  6. blood cells rises to increase the
  7. oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood in
  8. order to compensate for the lower levels of
  9. oxygen in the air.
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  11. Subject by: Russell Webb
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