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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.
The situation in which both members of a chromosome pair or segments of a chromosome pair are inherited from one parent and neither is inherited from the other parent. Uniparental disomy can result in an abnormal phenotype in some cases.
Industry:Health care
1 ) Obsessive or uncontrollable use of obscene language.
2 ) The use of obscene (as scatological) language as sexual gratification.
Industry:Health care
1 ) Obsessive or uncontrollable use of obscene language.
2 ) The use of obscene (as scatological) language as sexual gratification.
Industry:Health care
1) Refers to the cells that line the internal and external surfaces of the body.
2) Of or relating to epithelium.
Industry:Health care
1) Glands that help produce semen.
2) One of the two paired glands in the male genitourinary system, posterior to the bladder and superior to the prostate gland, that produces fructose-rich seminal fluid which is a component of semen. These glands join the ipsilateral ductus deferens to form the ejaculatory duct.
Industry:Health care
1) A vertebrate at any stage of development prior to birth or hatching.
2) An animal in the early stages of growth and differentiation that are characterized by cleavage, the laying down of fundamental tissues, and the formation of primitive organs and organ systems; especially: the developing human individual from the time of implantation to the end of the eighth week after conception.
Industry:Health care
1) A basic element found in nearly all organized tissues. It is a member of the alkaline earth family of metals with the atomic symbol Ca, atomic number 20, and atomic weight 40. Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the body and combines with phosphorus to form calcium phosphate in the bones and teeth. It is essential for the normal functioning of nerves and muscles and plays a role in blood coagulation (as factor IV) and in many enzymatic processes.
2) A silver-white bivalent metallic element that is an alkaline earth metal, occurs only in combination, and is an essential constituent of most plants and animals -- symbol Ca.
Industry:Health care
1) A benign (noncancerous) growth made up of an abnormal mixture of cells and tissues normally found in the area of the body where the growth occurs.
2) A mass resembling a tumor that represents anomalous development of tissue natural to a part or organ rather than a true tumor.
Industry:Health care
1) A benign (noncancerous) growth made up of an abnormal mixture of cells and tissues normally found in the area of the body where the growth occurs.
2) A mass resembling a tumor that represents anomalous development of tissue natural to a part or organ rather than a true tumor.
Industry:Health care
1) A benign epithelial tumor with a glandular organization.
2) A noncancerous tumor.
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