- 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) Individuals classified according to their sex, racial origin, religion, common place of living, financial or social status, or some other cultural or behavioral attribute. (UMLS, 2003)
2) A group of individuals united by a common factor (e.g., geographic location, ethnicity, disease, age, gender)
3) The whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region.
4) A body of persons or individuals having a quality or characteristic in common.
5) The organisms inhabiting a particular locality.
6) A group of interbreeding organisms that represents the level of organization at which speciation begins.
7) A group of individual persons, objects, or items from which samples are taken for statistical measurement.
Industry:Health care
1) Infection with a fungus of the genus Candida. It is usually a superficial infection of the moist areas of the body and is generally caused by Candida albicans.
2) A condition in which Candida albicans, a type of yeast, grows out of control in moist skin areas of the body. It is usually a result of a weakened immune system, but can be a side effect of chemotherapy or treatment with antibiotics. Thrush usually affects the mouth (oral thrush); however, rarely, it spreads throughout the entire body.
Industry:Health care
1) Infections with fungi of the genus Aspergillus.
2) An infectious fungal disease that occurs most often in the skin, ears, nasal sinuses, and lungs of people with suppressed immune systems.
Industry:Health care
1) Inflammation of joints due to infectious, metabolic, or constitutional causes; also: a specific arthritic condition (as gouty arthritis or psoriatic arthritis).
2) A disease that causes inflammation and pain in the joints.
Industry:Health care
1) Inflammation of part or all of the uvea, the middle (vascular) tunic of the eye, and commonly involving the other tunics (sclera and cornea, and the retina).
2) Inflammation of the uvea.
Industry:Health care
1) Inflammation of the bone marrow and adjacent bone caused by a pyogenic organism; it may remain localized or may spread through the bone to involve the marrow, cortex, cancellous tissue, and periosteum.
2) An infectious usually painful inflammatory disease of bone that is often of bacterial origin and may result in death of bone tissue.
Industry:Health care
1) Inflammation of the bone marrow and adjacent bone caused by a pyogenic organism; it may remain localized or may spread through the bone to involve the marrow, cortex, cancellous tissue, and periosteum.
2) An infectious usually painful inflammatory disease of bone that is often of bacterial origin and may result in death of bone tissue.
Industry:Health care
1) Inflammation of the colon section of the large intestine, usually with symptoms such as diarrhea (often with blood and mucus), abdominal pain, and fever.
2) Inflammation of the colon.
Industry:Health care
1) Inflammation of the kidney. It is a focal or diffuse proliferative or destructive process which may involve the glomerulus, tubule, or interstitial renal tissue.
2) Acute or chronic inflammation of the kidney affecting the structure (as of the glomerulus or parenchyma) and caused by infection, a degenerative process, or vascular disease.
Industry:Health care
1) Inflammation of the liver and liver disease involving degenerative or necrotic alterations of hepatocytes.
2) Disease of the liver causing inflammation. Symptoms include an enlarged liver, fever, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and dark urine.
Industry:Health care
