- Industry: Library & information science
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The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care.
A subjective sensation (as of voices or colored lights or crawling and numbness) experienced before an attack of some nervous disorders (as epilepsy or migraine).
Industry:Medical
An antibody active against a tissue constituent of the individual producing it.
Industry:Medical
Riferito al cuore e ai vasi sanguigni attraverso i quali il sangue viene pompato e fatto circolare attraverso il corpo.
Industry:Medical
1) The smallest units of living structure capable of independent existence, composed of a membrane-enclosed mass of protoplasm and containing a nucleus or nucleoid. Cells are highly variable and specialized in both structure and function, though all must at some stage replicate proteins and nucleic acids, utilize energy, and reproduce themselves.
2) A cell is the basic building block of living things. All cells can be sorted into one of two groups: eukaryotes and prokaryotes. A eukaryote has a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles, while a prokaryote does not. Plants and animals are made of numerous eukaryotic cells, while many microbes, such as bacteria, consist of single cells. An adult human body is estimated to contain between 10 and 100 trillion cells.
Industry:Medical
Una misura del grasso corporeo data dal rapporto tra il peso del corpo in chilogrammi e il quadrato dell'altezza espressa in metri (un indice di massa corporea negli adulti compreso tra 25 e 29,9 è considerato indicazione di sovrappeso e quello di 30 o superiore è indice di obesità); abbreviato IMC e chiamato anche indice di Quételet.
Industry:Medical
1) Body of knowledge related to the use of organisms, cells or cell-derived constituents for the purpose of developing products which are technically, scientifically and clinically useful; alteration of biologic function at the molecular level (i.e., genetic engineering) is a central focus.
2) Applied biological science (as bioengineering or recombinant DNA technology).
3) A set of biological techniques developed through basic research and now applied to research and product development. In particular, biotechnology refers to the use by industry of recombinant DNA, cell fusion, and new bioprocessing techniques.
Industry:Medical
A cross between an animal that is heterozygous for alleles obtained from two parental strains and a second animal from one of those parental strains. Also used to describe the breeding protocol of an outcross followed by a backcross.
Industry:Medical
1) The shell-like structure projects like a little wing (pinna) from the side of the head. Ear auricles collect sound from the environment.
2) The largely cartilaginous projecting portion of the external ear.
Industry:Medical
1) An abnormal concretion occurring mostly in the urinary and biliary tracts, usually composed of mineral salts. Also called stones.
2) A concretion usually of mineral salts around organic material found especially in hollow organs or ducts.
3) A concretion on teeth: tartar.
Industry:Medical
