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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.
1) A set of symptoms or conditions that occur together and suggest the presence of a certain disease or an increased chance of developing the disease.
2) The group or recognizable pattern of symptoms or abnormalities that indicate a particular trait or disease.
3) A group of signs and symptoms that occur together and characterize a particular abnormality.
4) A syndrome is a collection of recognizable traits or abnormalities that tend to occur together and are associated with a specific disease.
Industry:Health care
1) A severe emotional disorder of psychotic depth characteristically marked by a retreat from reality with delusion formation, hallucinations, emotional disharmony, and regressive behavior.
2) A psychotic disorder characterized by loss of contact with the environment, by noticeable deterioration in the level of functioning in everyday life, and by disintegration of personality expressed as disorder of feeling, thought (as in delusions), perception (as in hallucinations), and behavior -- called also dementia praecox.
Industry:Health care
1) A severe emotional disorder of psychotic depth characteristically marked by a retreat from reality with delusion formation, hallucinations, emotional disharmony, and regressive behavior.
2) A psychotic disorder characterized by loss of contact with the environment, by noticeable deterioration in the level of functioning in everyday life, and by disintegration of personality expressed as disorder of feeling, thought (as in delusions), perception (as in hallucinations), and behavior -- called also dementia praecox.
Industry:Health care
1) A short usually highly conserved DNA sequence in various genes and especially homeotic genes that encodes a homeodomain.
2) A short stretch of nucleotides whose base sequence is virtually identical in all the genes that contain it. Homeoboxes have been found in many organisms from fruit flies to human beings. In the fruit fly, a homeobox appears to determine when particular groups of genes are expressed during development.
Industry:Health care
1) A single base pair substitution that prematurely codes for a stop in amino acid translation (stop codon)
2) A nonsense mutation is the substitution of a single base pair that leads to the appearance of a stop codon where previously there was a codon specifying an amino acid. The presence of this premature stop codon results in the production of a shortened, and likely nonfunctional, protein.
Industry:Health care
1) A single base pair substitution that results in the translation of a different amino acid at that position.
2) A missense mutation is when the change of a single base pair causes the substitution of a different amino acid in the resulting protein. This amino acid substitution may have no effect, or it may render the protein nonfunctional.
Industry:Health care
1) A single disorder, trait, or pattern of traits caused by genetic factors in some cases and non-genetic factors in others.
2) The production of identical or similar phenotypes by different genetic mechanisms.
Industry:Health care
1) A single nucleotide variation in a genetic sequence that occurs at appreciable frequency in the population.
2) A variant DNA sequence in which the purine or pyrimidine base (as cytosine) of a single nucleotide has been replaced by another such base (as thymine).
3) Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are a type of polymorphism involving variation of a single base pair. Scientists are studying how single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs (pronounced "snips"), in the human genome correlate with disease, drug response, and other phenotypes.
Industry:Health care
1) A small fossa.
2) A small rodless area of the retina that affords acute vision.
Industry:Health care
1) A small nodular mass of specialized muscle fibers located in the interatrial septum near the opening of the coronary sinus. It gives rise to the atrioventricular bundle of the conduction system of the heart.
2) A small mass of tissue that is situated in the wall of the right atrium adjacent to the septum between the atria, passes impulses received from the sinoatrial node to the ventricles by way of the bundle of His, and in some pathological states replaces the sinoatrial node as pacemaker of the heart.
Industry:Health care
