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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) Involuntary, forcible, rapid, jerky movements that may be subtle or become confluent, markedly altering normal patterns of movement. Hypotonia and pendular reflexes are often associated. Conditions which feature recurrent or persistent episodes of chorea as a primary manifestation of disease are referred to as choreatic disorders. Chorea is also a frequent manifestation of basal ganglia diseases.
2) Ceaseless occurrence of rapid, highly complex jerky movements that appear to be well coordinated but are performed involuntarily.
Industry:Health care
1) Involves lesions of the external and middle ear resulting in malconduction of airborne sound.
2) Hearing loss due to interference with the mechanical reception or amplification of sound to the cochlea. The interference is in the outer or middle ear involving the ear canal; tympanic membrane; or ear ossicles (otosclerosis).
Industry:Health care
1) Kidney containing one or more cysts, including polycystic disease, solitary cyst, multiple simple cysts, and retention cysts.
2) Abnormal fluid filled sac within the kidney, either acquired or congenital.
Industry:Health care
1) Likeness in structure between parts of different organisms due to evolutionary differentiation from the same or a corresponding part of a remote ancestor.
2) Similarity in DNA or protein sequences between individuals of the same species or among different species.
Industry:Health care
1) Linear arrangement of multiple copies of short repeated DNA sequences that vary in length and are highly polymorphic, making them useful as markers in linkage analysis.
2) A tandem repeat from a single genetic locus in which the number of repeated DNA segments varies from individual to individual and is used for identification purposes (as in DNA fingerprinting).
Industry:Health care
1) Linear arrangement of multiple copies of short repeated DNA sequences that vary in length and are highly polymorphic, making them useful as markers in linkage analysis.
2) A tandem repeat from a single genetic locus in which the number of repeated DNA segments varies from individual to individual and is used for identification purposes (as in DNA fingerprinting).
Industry:Health care
1) Lipid infiltration of the hepatic parenchymal cells resulting in a yellow-colored liver. The abnormal lipid accumulation is usually in the form of triglycerides, either as a single large droplet or multiple small droplets. Fatty liver is caused by an imbalance in the metabolism of fatty acids.
2) An abnormal condition of the liver that is characterized by lipid accumulation in the hepatocytes to the extent that lipids account for more than five percent of liver weight and that is caused especially by injury, malnutrition, or hepatotoxins.
3) A liver affected with fatty liver.
Industry:Health care
1) Lipid-containing polysaccharides which are endotoxins and important group-specific antigens. They are often derived from the cell wall of gram-negative bacteria and induce immunoglobulin secretion. The lipopolysaccharide molecule consists of three parts: LIPID A, core polysaccharide, and O-specific chains (O antigens). When derived from Escherichia coli, lipopolysaccharides serve as polyclonal B-cell mitogens commonly used in laboratory immunology. (From Dorland, 28th ed)
2) A large molecule consisting of lipids and sugars joined by chemical bonds -- abbreviation LPS
Industry:Health care
1) Location of the heart in the right hemithorax, with the apex directed to the right.
2) An abnormal condition in which the heart is situated on the right side and the great blood vessels of the right and left sides are reversed.
Industry:Health care
