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1) Sensory nerves bring impulses toward the central nervous system.
2) A peripheral nerve cell (as an olfactory cell) located at a sensory receiving surface and being the primary receptor of a sensory impulse.
3) A nerve cell (as a spinal ganglion cell) transmitting sensory impulses.
Industry:Health care
1) Sequencing method that involves randomly sequenced cloned pieces of the genome, with no foreknowledge of where the piece originally came from. This can be contrasted with "directed" strategies, in which pieces of DNA from known chromosomal locations are sequenced. Because there are advantages to both strategies, researchers use both random (or shotgun) and directed strategies in combination to sequence the human genome.
2) Shotgun sequencing is a laboratory technique for determining the DNA sequence of an organism's genome. The method involves breaking the genome into a collection of small DNA fragments that are sequenced individually. A computer program looks for overlaps in the DNA sequences and uses them to place the individual fragments in their correct order to reconstitute the genome.
Industry:Health care
1) Serum beta-globulin that binds and transports iron. (From Dorland, 28th ed)
2) A beta globulin in blood plasma capable of combining with ferric ions and transporting iron in the body -- called also siderophilin.
Industry:Health care
1) Severe inability of the liver to function normally, as evidenced by severe jaundice and abnormal levels of ammonia, bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase, lactic dehydrogenase, and reversal of the albumin/globulin ratio.
2) The failure of the liver to detoxify chemicals in the body leading to a clinical disease.
Industry:Health care
1) Severe inability of the liver to function normally, as evidenced by severe jaundice and abnormal levels of ammonia, bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase, lactic dehydrogenase, and reversal of the albumin/globulin ratio.
2) The failure of the liver to detoxify chemicals in the body leading to a clinical disease.
Industry:Health care
1) Severe or complete loss of motor function in the lower extremities and lower portions of the trunk. This condition is most often associated with SPINAL CORD DISEASES, although BRAIN DISEASES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; and MUSCULAR DISEASES may also cause bilateral leg weakness.
2) severe or complete loss of motor function in the lower extremities and lower portions of the trunk.
3) Paralysis of the legs and lower part of the body.
4) Complete paralysis of the lower half of the body including both legs, often caused by damage to the spinal cord.
5) Paralysis of the lower limbs and trunk.
Industry:Health care
1) Severe or complete loss of motor function on one side of the body; this condition is usually caused by brain diseases that are localized to the cerebral hemisphere opposite to the side of weakness; less frequently, brain stem lesions; cervical spinal cord diseases, peripheral nervous system diseases, and other conditions may manifest as hemiplegia.
2) Paralysis of one side of the body resulting from disease or injury to the brain or spinal cord.
3) Total or partial paralysis of one side of the body that results from disease of or injury to the motor centers of the brain.
Industry:Health care
1) Severely deficient color perception, typically with monochromacy and reduced visual acuity. The atypical form can include normal visual acuity with pseudomonochromacy.
2) A visual defect marked by total color blindness in which the colors of the spectrum are seen as tones of white-gray-black.
Industry:Health care
1) Severest class of psychological disorders, characterized by one or more of severe affective disturbances, profound introspection, withdrawal from reality, hallucinations, or regression.
2) A serious mental disorder (as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions.
Industry:Health care
1) Shock-like contraction of a portion of a muscle, an entire muscle, or a group of muscles; may be part of a disease process or a normal physiological response.
2) Irregular involuntary contraction of a muscle usually resulting from functional disorder of controlling motor neurons; also: a condition characterized by myoclonus.
Industry:Health care
