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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 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
1) An anemic condition which results from a lack hemoglobin within erythrocytes.
2) Deficiency of color or pigmentation.
3) Deficiency of hemoglobin in the red blood cells (as in nutritional anemia)
Industry:Health care
1) An anticoagulant that acts by inhibiting the synthesis of vitamin K-dependent coagulation factors. Warfarin is indicated for the prophylaxis and/or treatment of venous thrombosis and its extension, pulmonary embolism, and atrial fibrillation with embolization. It is also used as an adjunct in the prophylaxis of systemic embolism after myocardial infarction. Warfarin is also used as a rodenticide.
2) A drug that prevents blood from clotting. It belongs to the family of drugs called anticoagulants (blood thinners).
Industry:Health care
1) An anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent, persistent obsessions or compulsions. Obsessions are the intrusive ideas, thoughts, or images that are experienced as senseless or repugnant. Compulsions are repetitive and seemingly purposeful behavior which the individual generally recognizes as senseless and from which the individual does not derive pleasure although it may provide a release from tension.
2) Disorder characterized by recurrent obsessions or compulsions that may interfere with the individual's daily functioning or serve as a source of distress.
Industry:Health care
1) An appreciable lateral deviation in the normally straight vertical line of the spine. (Dorland, 27th ed)
2) A lateral curvature of the spine.
Industry:Health care
1) An area of abnormal tissue. A lesion may be benign (noncancerous) or malignant (cancerous).
2) An abnormal change in structure of an organ or part due to injury or disease ; especially : one that is circumscribed and well defined.
Industry:Health care
1) An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, or inborn or inherited characteristic, which, on the basis of epidemiologic evidence, is known to be associated with a health-related condition considered important to prevent.
2) Something which increases risk or susceptibility <a fatty diet is a risk factor for heart disease>.
3) Something that may increase the chance of developing a disease. Some examples of risk factors for cancer include age, a family history of certain cancers, use of tobacco products, certain eating habits, obesity, lack of exercise, exposure to radiation or other cancer-causing agents, and certain genetic changes.
Industry:Health care
1) An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, or inborn or inherited characteristic, which, on the basis of epidemiologic evidence, is known to be associated with a health-related condition considered important to prevent.
2) Something which increases risk or susceptibility <a fatty diet is a risk factor for heart disease>.
3) Something that may increase the chance of developing a disease. Some examples of risk factors for cancer include age, a family history of certain cancers, use of tobacco products, certain eating habits, obesity, lack of exercise, exposure to radiation or other cancer-causing agents, and certain genetic changes.
Industry:Health care
1) An atom or group of atoms that have a positive or negative electric charge due to a gain (negative charge) or loss (positive charge) of one or more electrons. Atoms with a positive charge are known as cations; those with a negative charge are anions.
2) An atom or group of atoms that carries a positive or negative electric charge as a result of having lost or gained one or more electrons.
3) A charged subatomic particle (as a free electron).
Industry:Health care
1) An atom or group of atoms that have a positive or negative electric charge due to a gain (negative charge) or loss (positive charge) of one or more electrons. Atoms with a positive charge are known as cations; those with a negative charge are anions.
2) An atom or group of atoms that carries a positive or negative electric charge as a result of having lost or gained one or more electrons.
3) A charged subatomic particle (as a free electron).
Industry:Health care
