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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 involuntary movement accompanying a volitional movement. It often refers to facial movements that accompany facial paralysis.
2) Involuntary movement in one part when another part is moved: an associated movement.
Industry:Health care
1) An involuntary movement accompanying a volitional movement. It often refers to facial movements that accompany facial paralysis.
2) Involuntary movement in one part when another part is moved: an associated movement.
Industry:Health care
1) An iodine-containing protein of the thyroid gland that on proteolysis yields thyroxine and triiodothyronine.
2) The form that thyroid hormone takes when stored in the cells of the thyroid.
Industry:Health care
1) An ocular disease, occurring in many forms, having as its primary characteristics an unstable or a sustained increase in the intraocular pressure which the eye cannot withstand without damage to its structure or impairment of its function. The consequences of the increased pressure may be manifested in a variety of symptoms, depending upon type and severity, such as excavation of the optic disk, hardness of the eyeball, corneal anesthesia, reduced visual acuity, seeing of colored halos around lights, disturbed dark adaptation, visual field defects, and headaches.
2) A disease of the eye marked by increased pressure within the eyeball that can result in damage to the optic disk and gradual loss of vision.
Industry:Health care
1) An ocular disease, occurring in many forms, having as its primary characteristics an unstable or a sustained increase in the intraocular pressure which the eye cannot withstand without damage to its structure or impairment of its function. The consequences of the increased pressure may be manifested in a variety of symptoms, depending upon type and severity, such as excavation of the optic disk, hardness of the eyeball, corneal anesthesia, reduced visual acuity, seeing of colored halos around lights, disturbed dark adaptation, visual field defects, and headaches.
2) A disease of the eye marked by increased pressure within the eyeball that can result in damage to the optic disk and gradual loss of vision.
Industry:Health care
1) An organism having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs.
2) An abnormal individual especially among the higher vertebrates having both male and female reproductive organs -- called also androgyne.
3) A plant or animal (as a hydra) that normally has both male and female reproductive organs.
Industry:Health care
1) An organism having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs.
2) An abnormal individual especially among the higher vertebrates having both male and female reproductive organs -- called also androgyne.
3) A plant or animal (as a hydra) that normally has both male and female reproductive organs.
Industry:Health care
1) An oxyacid of chlorine (HClO) containing monovalent chlorine that acts as an oxidizing or reducing agent.
2) An unstable strongly oxidizing but weak acid HClO obtained in solution along with hydrochloric acid by reaction of chlorine with water and used especially in the form of salts as an oxidizing agent, bleaching agent, disinfectant, and chlorinating agent.
Industry:Health care
1) An unwanted effect caused by a drug or therapy. Such effects can be drug related, dose related, route related, patient related, caused by an interaction with another drug, or caused by opioid initiation or dose escalation.
2) A secondary and usually adverse effect (as of a drug) <toxic side effects> <a side effect of drowsiness caused by antihistamines> -- called also side reaction.
Industry:Health care
1) Anabolic formation of lipid compounds in organisms or living cells; this includes fats, long-chain fatty acids, and oils.
2) De novo fat synthesis in the body. This includes the synthetic processes of fatty acids and subsequent triglycerides in the liver and the adipose tissue. Lipogenesis is regulated by numerous factors, including nutritional, hormonal, and genetic elements.
3) Formation of fat in the living body especially when excessive or abnormal.
4) The formation of fatty acids from acetyl coenzyme A in the living body.
Industry:Health care
