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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) Return to the normal structure and/or function, e.g. the subsidence of a pathologic process, as the subsidence of an inflammatory lesion or new growth; also, the size of the smallest element that can be separated from neighboring elements. The term is used in optics, to describe imaging systems, in genetics and molecular biology, to define the degree of molecular detail on a physical map of DNA, ranging from low to high.
2) The separating of a chemical compound or mixture into its constituents. 2: The process or capability of making distinguishable the individual parts of an object, closely adjacent optical images, or sources of light.
3) The subsidence of a pathological state (as inflammation).
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1) Ribonucleic acid. One of the two types of nucleic acids found in all cells. The other is deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). RNA transmits genetic information from DNA to proteins produced by the cell.
2) Any of various nucleic acids that contain ribose and uracil as structural components and are associated with the control of cellular chemical activities -- called also ribonucleic acid.
3) Ribonucleic acid, a chemical similar to DNA. The several classes of RNA molecules play important roles in protein synthesis and other cell activities.
4) Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a molecule similar to DNA. Unlike DNA, RNA is single-stranded. An RNA strand has a backbone made of alternating sugar (ribose) and phosphate groups. Attached to each sugar is one of four bases--adenine (A), uracil (U), cytosine (C), or guanine (G). Different types of RNA exist in the cell: messenger RNA (mRNA), ribosomal RNA (rRNA), and transfer RNA (tRNA). More recently, some small RNAs have been found to be involved in regulating gene expression.
Industry:Health care
1) Right and left arteries supplying blood to the heart muscle.
2) Either of two arteries that arise one from the left and one from the right side of the aorta immediately above the semilunar valves and supply the tissues of the heart itself.
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1) RNA that serves as a template for protein synthesis.
2) Messenger RNA (mRNA) is a single-stranded RNA molecule that is complementary to one of the DNA strands of a gene. The mRNA is an RNA version of the gene that leaves the cell nucleus and moves to the cytoplasm where proteins are made. During protein synthesis, an organelle called a ribosome moves along the mRNA, reads its base sequence, and uses the genetic code to translate each three-base triplet, or codon, into its corresponding amino acid.
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1) Salts or esters of lactic acid.
2) Metabolic intermediate involved in many biochemical processes; the end product of glycolysis, which provides energy anaerobically in skeletal muscle during heavy exercise; can be oxidized aerobically in the heart for energy production or can be converted back to glucose in the liver; also the end product of fermentation in several bacterial species.
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1) Salts or esters of lactic acid.
2) Metabolic intermediate involved in many biochemical processes; the end product of glycolysis, which provides energy anaerobically in skeletal muscle during heavy exercise; can be oxidized aerobically in the heart for energy production or can be converted back to glucose in the liver; also the end product of fermentation in several bacterial species.
Industry:Health care
1) Scientific discipline dealing with the anatomy, physiology, and organic diseases of the nervous system. Used for the scientific discipline or the neurological findings themselves.
2) The scientific study of the nervous system especially in respect to its structure, functions, and abnormalities.
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1) Self-replicating, short, fibrous, rod-shaped organelles. Each centriole is a short cylinder containing nine pairs of peripheral microtubules, arranged so as to form the wall of the cylinder.
2) One of a pair of cellular organelles that occur especially in animals, are adjacent to the nucleus, function in the formation of the spindle apparatus during cell division, and consist of a cylinder with nine microtubules arranged peripherally in a circle.
3) Centrioles are paired barrel-shaped organelles located in the cytoplasm of animal cells near the nuclear envelope. Centrioles play a role in organizing microtubules that serve as the cell's skeletal system. They help determine the locations of the nucleus and other organelles within the cell.
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1) Sensitive or sensitized to the action of radiant energy (photosensitive paper).
2) Being or caused by an abnormal reaction to sunlight (photosensitive rashes).
Industry:Health care
1) Sensitive or sensitized to the action of radiant energy (photosensitive paper).
2) Being or caused by an abnormal reaction to sunlight (photosensitive rashes).
Industry:Health care
