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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) Relating to or functioning in digestion (digestive processes).
2) Having the power to cause or promote digestion (digestive enzymes).
Industry:Health care
1) Relating to the lungs.
2) Relating to, functioning like, associated with, or carried on by the lungs.
Industry:Health care
1) Relative intelligence of an individual expressed as a score on a standardized test of intelligence. Consider also intelligence.
2) A number used to express the apparent relative intelligence of a person: as A: the ratio of the mental age (as reported on a standardized test) to the chronological age multiplied by 100. B: a score determined by one's performance on a standardized intelligence test relative to the average performance of others of the same age.
Industry:Health care
1) Removal and pathologic examination of specimens in the form of small pieces of tissue from the living body.
2) The removal of cells or tissues for examination under a microscope. When only a sample of tissue is removed, the procedure is called an incisional biopsy or core biopsy. When an entire lump or suspicious area is removed, the procedure is called an excisional biopsy. When a sample of tissue or fluid is removed with a needle, the procedure is called a needle biopsy or fine-needle aspiration.
Industry:Health care
1) Repetitive segments of DNA two to five nucleotides in length (dinucleotide/trinucleotide/tetranucleotide repeats), scattered throughout the genome in the non-coding regions between genes or within genes (introns), often used as markers for linkage analysis because of high variability in repeat number between individuals. These regions are inherently unstable and susceptible to mutations.
2) Microsatellite sequences are repetitive DNA sequences usually several base pairs in length. Microsatellite sequences are composed of non-coding DNA and are not parts of genes. They are used as genetic markers to follow the inheritance of genes in families.
3) Any of numerous short segments of DNA that are distributed throughout the genome, that consist of repeated sequences of usually two to five nucleotides, and that are often useful markers in studies of genetic linkage because they tend to vary from one individual to another.
Industry:Health care
1) Repetitive segments of DNA two to five nucleotides in length (dinucleotide/trinucleotide/tetranucleotide repeats), scattered throughout the genome in the non-coding regions between genes or within genes (introns), often used as markers for linkage analysis because of high variability in repeat number between individuals. These regions are inherently unstable and susceptible to mutations.
2) Microsatellite sequences are repetitive DNA sequences usually several base pairs in length. Microsatellite sequences are composed of non-coding DNA and are not parts of genes. They are used as genetic markers to follow the inheritance of genes in families.
3) Any of numerous short segments of DNA that are distributed throughout the genome, that consist of repeated sequences of usually two to five nucleotides, and that are often useful markers in studies of genetic linkage because they tend to vary from one individual to another.
Industry:Health care
1) Retinol and its derivatives; C(20) polyunsaturated, cyclic, lipid soluble alcohol; deficiency results in night blindness and certain epithelial disorders.
2) A group of tetraterpenes, with four terpene units joined head-to-tail. Biologically active members of this class are used clinically in the treatment of severe cystic acne; psoriasis; and other disorders of keratinization.
3) Vitamin A or a vitamin A-like compound.
Industry:Health care
1) Retrotransposons are transposable DNA elements (transposons) that employ retroviral-like reverse transcription during the process of transposition: retrotransposon DNA is first transcribed into an RNA template, then reverse transcribed into DNA, and then inserted into a new genomic site.
2) A transposable element that undergoes transposition from one place to another in the genome of a cell by forming an intermediate RNA transcript from which a copy of the DNA of the transposable element is made using a reverse transcriptase and inserted into the genome at a new location -- called also retroposon.
Industry:Health care
1) Retrotransposons are transposable DNA elements (transposons) that employ retroviral-like reverse transcription during the process of transposition: retrotransposon DNA is first transcribed into an RNA template, then reverse transcribed into DNA, and then inserted into a new genomic site.
2) A transposable element that undergoes transposition from one place to another in the genome of a cell by forming an intermediate RNA transcript from which a copy of the DNA of the transposable element is made using a reverse transcriptase and inserted into the genome at a new location -- called also retroposon.
Industry:Health care
1) Return to a former state; a subsidence of the symptoms of a disease process; in cancer, a decrease in the size of a tumor or in the extent of cancer in the body.
2) A decrease in the size of a tumor or in the extent of cancer in the body.
Industry:Health care
