VirileMail/Contents/Glossary

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 * Badhesion - a type of protein used to make neurons attach efficiently to nanobots (Chapter 11).
 * Badhesion virus - a virus that can infect human brains and cause neurons to make Badhesins (Chapter 11).
 * biologicals - term used to refer to biological life forms, in contrast to artificial robotic life forms (Chapter 9.
 * comscree - Term used on Mars to refer to a portable communications and computing device with a flexible data display (Chapter 11).
 * Conceptions Organiques - Nf23 and NAO bioengineering project (Chapter 13)
 * LBC - Slang term for "Lockback chip". (Chapter 6) The term "lockback" is related to backpropagation. The Lockback microchips provide a computational process similar to that of the cerebral cortex.
 * Maldi district - adjacent to the Prosco district; where Joe lives while on Mars (Chapter 11).
 * nanobot - short form of "nanorobot".
 * NAO - the nodal adapter organelle that was designed to allow nanobots to interface with human brains; Conceptions Organiques bioengineering project (Chapter 13).
 * Nf23 - the strain of Naegleria fowleri, a type of amoeba capable of invading and surviving in the human brain, used by the Conceptions Organiques bioengineering project (Chapter 13).
 * Prosco district - location of the Varna software project(Mars underground city) (Chapter 11).
 * Tamia district - where the space port is located (Mars underground city) (Chapter 11).
 * Vavilov viral engineering project - source of the Badhesion virus (Chapter 11)
 * Varna software project - where the VirileMail software was developed (Chapter 12)
 * VirileMail - the "intelligent email" software Chapter 2