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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) Protrusion of a loop or knuckle of an organ or tissue through an abnormal opening.
2) A protrusion of an organ or part through connective tissue or through a wall of the cavity in which it is normally enclosed -- called also rupture.
Industry:Health care
1) Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.
2) Broad class of abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior, resulting in distress or impairment.
3) A mental or bodily condition marked primarily by sufficient disorganization of personality, mind, and emotions to seriously impair the normal psychological functioning of the individual.
Industry:Health care
1) Radiographic examination of the breast.
2) The use of x-rays to create a picture of the breast.
Industry:Health care
1) Recurring thoracic pain or discomfort which occurs when a part of the heart does not receive enough blood; usually caused by exertion or excitement.
2) A disease marked by brief paroxysmal attacks of chest pain precipitated by deficient oxygenation of the heart muscles.
Industry:Health care
1) Red blood cells. Mature erythrocytes are non-nucleated, biconcave disks containing hemoglobin whose function is to transport oxygen.
2) RBC. A cell that carries oxygen to all parts of the body. Also called an erythrocyte.
Industry:Health care
1) Reduction in the number of lymphocytes.
2) A decrease in the proportion of lymphocytes in the blood.
3) An abnormally small number of lymphocytes in the circulating blood.
Industry:Health care
1) Reduction in the number of lymphocytes.
2) A decrease in the proportion of lymphocytes in the blood.
3) An abnormally small number of lymphocytes in the circulating blood.
Industry:Health care
1) Reduction of bone mass without alteration in the composition of bone, leading to fractures. Primary osteoporosis can be of two major types: postmenopausal osteoporosis (osteoporosis, postmenopausal) and age-related or senile osteoporosis.
2) Loss of bone mass and strength due to nutritional, metabolic, or other factors, usually resulting in deformity or fracture; a major public health problem of the elderly, especially women.
3) RAEB: A condition of reduced bone mass, with decreased cortical thickness and a decrease in the number and size of the trabeculae of cancellous bone (but normal chemical composition), resulting in increased fracture incidence. Osteoporosis is classified as primary (Type 1, postmenopausal osteoporosis; Type 2, age-associated osteoporosis; and idiopathic, which can affect juveniles, premenopausal women, and middle-aged men) and secondary osteoporosis (which results from an identifiable cause of bone mass loss).
4) A condition that is characterized by a decrease in bone mass and density, causing bones to become fragile.
Industry:Health care
1) Refers to the liver.
2) Of, relating to, affecting, or associated with the liver <hepatic injury> <hepatic insufficiency>.
Industry:Health care
1) Refers to the liver.
2) Of, relating to, affecting, or associated with the liver <hepatic injury> <hepatic insufficiency>.
Industry:Health care
