- 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.
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:Health care
1) An abnormal elevation of body temperature, usually as a result of a pathologic process.
2) Abnormal high body temperature.
3) The elevation of the body's temperature above the upper limit of normal, usually taken as 37.7 degrees C.
Industry:Health care
1) An accumulation of air or gas in the pleural space, which may occur spontaneously or as a result of trauma or a pathological process, or be introduced deliberately ( = pneumothorax, artificial). (Dorland, 27th ed)
2) A condition in which air or other gas is present in the pleural cavity and which occurs spontaneously as a result of disease or injury of lung tissue, rupture of air-filled pulmonary cysts, or puncture of the chest wall or is induced as a therapeutic measure to collapse the lung.
Industry:Health care
Variation de base unique à un locus chromosomique qui existe de façon stable au sein des populations (généralement définies comme chaque variante étant présent chez au moins 1-2 % des personnes).
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1) An act or process of forming fibers or fibrils.
2) A muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination.
3) Very rapid irregular contractions of the muscle fibers of the heart resulting in a lack of synchronism between heartbeat and pulse.
Industry:Health care
1) An agent that causes the production of physical defects in the developing embryo.
2) Drugs or other agents that cause developmental malformations.
3) Any agent that raises the incidence of congenital malformations.
4) Substances such as chemicals or radiation that cause abnormal development of a embryo.
Industry:Health care
1) An agent that causes the production of physical defects in the developing embryo.
2) Drugs or other agents that cause developmental malformations.
3) Any agent that raises the incidence of congenital malformations.
4) Substances such as chemicals or radiation that cause abnormal development of a embryo.
Industry:Health care
1) An alteration in DNA sequence caused by a single nucleotide base change, insertion, or deletion.
2) A gene mutation involving the substitution, addition, or deletion of a single nucleotide base.
3) A point mutation is when a single base pair is altered. Point mutations can have one of three effects. First, the base substitution can be a silent mutation where the altered codon corresponds to the same amino acid. Second, the base substitution can be a missense mutation where the altered codon corresponds to a different amino acid. Or third, the base substitution can be a nonsense mutation where the altered codon corresponds to a stop signal.
Industry:Health care
1) An alteration in the normal sequence of a gene, the significance of which is unclear until further study of the genotype and corresponding phenotype in a sufficiently large population; complete gene sequencing often identifies numerous (sometimes hundreds) allelic variants for a given gene.
2) A variation in a genetic sequence whose association with disease risk is unknown. Also called variant of uncertain significance, unclassified variant, and VUS.
Industry:Health care
1) An anchoring junction of the cell to a non-cellular substrate, similar in morphology to halves of desmosomes. They are composed of specialized areas of the plasma membrane where intermediate filaments bind on the cytoplasmic face to the transmembrane linkers, integrins, via intracellular attachment proteins, while the extracellular domain of the integrins binds to extracellular matrix proteins.
2) A specialization of the plasma membrane of an epithelial cell that is similar to half a desmosome and serves to connect the basal surface of the cell to the basement membrane.
Industry:Health care
