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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) Glycoproteins present in the blood (antibodies) and in other tissue. They are classified by structure and activity into five classes (immunoglobulin A; immunoglobulin D; immunoglobulin E; immunoglobulin G; immunoglobulin M).
2) A protein that acts as an antibody.
Industry:Health care
1) Glycoproteins present in the blood (antibodies) and in other tissue. They are classified by structure and activity into five classes (immunoglobulin A; immunoglobulin D; immunoglobulin E; immunoglobulin G; immunoglobulin M).
2) A protein that acts as an antibody.
Industry:Health care
1) Glycoproteins which have a very high polysaccharide content.
2) Any of a class of glycoproteins of high molecular weight that are found in the extracellular matrix of connective tissue, are made up mostly of carbohydrate consisting of various polysaccharide side chains linked to a protein, and resemble polysaccharides rather than proteins in their properties.
Industry:Health care
1) Gradual bilateral hearing loss associated with aging that is due to progressive degeneration of cochlear structures and central auditory pathways. Hearing loss usually begins with the high frequencies then progresses to sounds of middle and low frequencies.
2) Progressive bilateral loss of hearing that occurs in the aged.
Industry:Health care
1) Granular leukocytes having a nucleus with three to five lobes connected by slender threads of chromatin, and cytoplasm containing fine inconspicuous granules and stainable by neutral dyes.
2) A granulocyte that is the chief phagocytic white blood cell.
Industry:Health care
1) Granular leukocytes with a nucleus that usually has two lobes connected by a slender thread of chromatin, and cytoplasm containing coarse, round granules that are uniform in size and stainable by eosin.
2) A white blood cell or other granulocyte with cytoplasmic inclusions readily stained by eosin.
Industry:Health care
1) Greatly exaggerated width of the mouth, resulting from failure of union of the maxillary and mandibular processes, with extension of the oral orifice toward the ear. The defect may be unilateral or bilateral. (Dorland, 27th ed)
2) The condition of having an abnormally large mouth.
3) An abnormally large mouth.
Industry:Health care
1) Growing from or on the outside (as in exogenous spores).
2) Caused by factors (as food or a traumatic factor) or an agent (as a disease-producing organism) from outside the organism or system (as in exogenous obesity, exogenous psychic depression).
3) Introduced from or produced outside the organism or system; specifically: not synthesized within the organism or system.
Industry:Health care
1) Guanine (G) is one of four chemical bases in DNA, with the other three being adenine (A), cytosine (C), and thymine (T). Within the DNA molecule, guanine bases located on one strand form chemical bonds with cytosine bases on the opposite strand. The sequence of four DNA bases encodes the cell's genetic instructions.
2) A purine base (C5H5N5O) that codes genetic information in the polynucleotide chain of DNA or RNA.
Industry:Health care
1) Guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection, such as prophylactic therapy.
2) Tending to prevent or ward off.
3) In medicine, something that prevents or protects.
Industry:Health care
