Plaque may refer to:
Commemorations or awards
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Commemorative plaque
A commemorative plaque, or simply plaque, or in other places referred to as a historical marker, historic marker, or historic plaque, is a plate of metal, ceramic, stone, wood, or other material, typically attached to a wall, stone, or other ...
, a plate or tablet fixed to a wall to mark an event, person, etc.
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Memorial Plaque (medallion), issued to next-of-kin of dead British military personnel after World War I
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Plaquette, a small plaque in bronze or other materials
Science and healthcare
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Amyloid
Amyloids are aggregates of proteins characterised by a fibrillar morphology of 7–13 nm in diameter, a beta sheet (β-sheet) secondary structure (known as cross-β) and ability to be stained by particular dyes, such as Congo red. In the hum ...
plaque
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Atheroma
An atheroma, or atheromatous plaque, is an abnormal and reversible accumulation of material in the inner layer of an arterial wall.
The material consists of mostly macrophage cells, or debris, containing lipids, calcium and a variable amount o ...
or atheromatous plaque, a buildup of deposits within the wall of an artery
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Dental plaque, a biofilm that builds up on teeth
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papule, a type of cutaneous condition
* Pleural plaque, associated with
mesothelioma, cancer often caused by exposure to asbestos
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Senile plaques, an extracellular protein deposit in the brain implicated in Alzheimer's disease
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Skin plaque, a plateau-like lesion that is greater in its diameter than in its depth
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Viral plaque, a visible structure formed by virus propagation within a cell culture
Other uses
* Plaque, a rectangular
casino token
Casino tokens (also known as casino or gaming chips, checks, cheques or poker chips) are small discs used in terms of currency in casinos. Colored metal, injection-molded plastic or compression molded clay tokens of various denominations are us ...
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Builder's plate
A builder's plate is usually a metal plate that is attached to railway locomotives and rolling stock, bogies, construction equipment, trucks, automobiles, large household appliances, bridges, ships and more. It gives such information as the name of ...
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Plac (disambiguation)
Plac may refer to:
* Pro-Life Amendment Campaign (PLAC), anti-abortion campaigners in Ireland, 1983
* Plač, village in northeastern Slovenia
* ''Plac'', Polish for town square, see List of city squares#Poland
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* Klonownica-Plac, a vi ...
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Placard A placard is a notice installed in a public place, like a small :wikt:card, card, Signage, sign, or :wikt:plaque, plaque. It can be attached to or hung from a vehicle or building to indicate information about the vehicle operator or contents of a ve ...
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Plack (disambiguation)
Plack may refer to:
* Plack (coin), an ancient Scottish coin
* Plack (software), a set of tools for running Perl-based Web applications and frameworks
* Plack (horse)
People with the surname
* Adam Plack, Australian musician, composer and produc ...
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Plague (disambiguation)
Plague or The Plague may refer to:
Agriculture, fauna, and medicine
*Plague (disease), a disease caused by ''Yersinia pestis''
* An epidemic of infectious disease (medical or agricultural)
* A pandemic caused by such a disease
* A swarm of pes ...
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