Biology GCSE
collateral damage
What collateral damage means in Biology GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of collateral damage
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Reference: OCR
Attempting surgical excision of tumours or repair of severed pathways risks causing irreversible damage to adjacent healthy neural tracts.
Topics that use collateral damage
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