Custom Search. Jicama, also known as yam bean, is a round, fleshy taproot vegetable of bean family plants. Its underground starchy root is one of the popular edible tuber-vegetables grown in many parts of Central American, South Asian, Caribbean, and some Andean South American regions.
Medical diagnosis (abbreviated DS or Dx) is the process of determining which disease or condition explains a person's symptoms and signs.
The velocity gradient, dv/dx, is a measure of the change in speed at which the layers move with respect to one another. This describes the shearing a liquid goes through and is referred to as the shear rate (S) which is reported in reciprocal second (sec-1). The term F/A indicates the force per unit area required to produce the shearing action. It is referred to as shear stress and will be symbolized by FÌ. Its unit of measurement is dynes per square centimeter (dynes/cm2).