- 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.
Irrigation or washing out of a hollow organ or cavity such as the stomach, intestine or the lungs.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Kinetic model, where the whole body is thought of as a single compartment in which the substance distributes rapidly, achieving an equilibrium between blood and tissue immediately.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Laboratory column of selected representative soil or a protected monolith of undisturbed field soil with which it is possible to sample and monitor the movement of water and substances.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Layer of flattened epithelial cells external to an organ or tissue.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Layer of flattened epithelial cells lining the heart, blood vessels and lymphatic vessels.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Length of DNA that encodes a functional product, which may be a polypeptide or a ribonucleic acid.
Note: A gene is the fundamental unit of heredity
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Level (concentration or amount or a time integral of either) of a substance to which an organism or other component of the environment is exposed in its natural surroundings.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Ligand-binding assay that uses a specific antigen or antibody, capable of binding to the analyte, to identify and quantify substances. The antibody can be linked to a radioisotope (radioimmunoassay, RIA) or to an enzyme which catalyses an easily monitored reaction (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, ELISA), or to a highly fluorescent compound by which the location of an antigen can be visualized (immunofluorescence).
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Limit concentration at or below which Member States of the European Community must set their environmental quality standard and emission standard for a particular substance according to Community Directives.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
List of all substances supplied either singly or as components in preparations to persons in a Member State of the European Community on any occasion between 1 January 1971 and 18 September 1981.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
