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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) 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
1) Inflammation of the lungs.
2) A disease of the lungs that is characterized especially by inflammation and consolidation of lung tissue followed by resolution, is accompanied by fever, chills, cough, and difficulty in breathing, and is caused chiefly by infection.
Industry:Health care
1) Inflammation of the lungs.
2) A disease of the lungs that is characterized especially by inflammation and consolidation of lung tissue followed by resolution, is accompanied by fever, chills, cough, and difficulty in breathing, and is caused chiefly by infection.
Industry:Health care
1) Inflammation of the middle ear.
2) Acute or chronic inflammation of the middle ear; especially: an acute inflammation, especially in infants or young children, that is caused by a virus or bacterium, usually occurs as a complication of an upper respiratory infection, and is marked by earache, fever, hearing loss, and sometimes rupture of the tympanic membrane.
Industry:Health care
1) Inflammatory disease characterized by small lumps or granulomas in lymph nodes and other organs.
2) A chronic disease of unknown cause that is characterized by the formation of nodules resembling true tubercles especially in the lymph nodes, lungs, bones, and skin -- called also Boeck's disease, Boeck's sarcoid, lupus pernio.
3) An inflammatory disease marked by the formation of granulomas (small nodules of immune cells) in the lungs, lymph nodes, and other organs. Sarcoidosis may be acute and go away by itself, or it may be chronic and progressive. Also called sarcoid.
Industry:Health care
1) Ingestion of a greater than optimal quantity of food.
2) Abnormally increased appetite for food frequently associated with injury to the hypothalamus.
Industry:Health care
1) Intracellular fluid from the cytoplasm after removal of organelles and other insoluble cytoplasmic components.
2) That part of the cytoplasm that does not contain membranous or particulate subcellular components.
3) Cell substance which fills the cell compartment between the plasma membrane and the nuclear membrane.
Industry:Health care
1) Involuntary ("parrot-like"), meaningless repetition of a recently heard word, phrase, or song. This condition may be associated with transcortical aphasia; schizophrenia; or other disorders.
2) The often pathological repetition of what is said by other people as if echoing them.
Industry:Health care
1) Involuntary contraction of the muscle fibers innervated by a motor unit. Fasciculations can often by visualized and take the form of a muscle twitch or dimpling under the skin, but usually do not generate sufficient force to move a limb. They may represent a benign condition or occur as a manifestation of motor neuron disease or peripheral nervous system diseases. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1294)
2) Muscular twitching involving the simultaneous contraction of contiguous groups of muscle fibers.
Industry:Health care
1) Involuntary contraction of the muscle fibers innervated by a motor unit. Fasciculations can often by visualized and take the form of a muscle twitch or dimpling under the skin, but usually do not generate sufficient force to move a limb. They may represent a benign condition or occur as a manifestation of motor neuron disease or peripheral nervous system diseases. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1294)
2) Muscular twitching involving the simultaneous contraction of contiguous groups of muscle fibers.
Industry:Health care
