- 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.
That which is established as a measure or model to which others of a similar nature should conform.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
The radiant power at wavelength lambda (λ) per unit wavelength interval.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Throat, the part of the digestive tract between the esophagus below and the mouth and nasal cavities above and in front.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Time required for the amount of a substance in a formulation to decrease, for any reason, by one-half (50%).
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Total messenger RNA expressed in a cell or tissue at a given point in time.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Total number of individuals who have an attribute or disease at a particular time (or during a particular period) divided by the population at risk of having the attribute or disease at this point in time or midway through the period.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Total probability of harm to a human population including the probability of adverse effects to health of descendants and the probability of disruption resulting from loss of services such as industrial plant or loss of material goods and electricity.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Totality of related items under consideration.
Note 1: A clearly defined part of a population is called a subpopulation. The term ‘population segment’ is sometimes used as a synonym for subpopulation.
Note 2: In the case of a random variable, the probability distribution is considered as defining the population of that variable.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Transfer of solutes from the renal tubule lumen to the tubular epithelial cell and normally from there to the peritubular fluid.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
