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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) Testing used to identify usually asymptomatic individuals who have a gene mutation for an autosomal recessive or X-linked recessive disorder.
2) Carrier screening is a type of genetic testing performed on people who display no symptoms for a genetic disorder but may be at risk for passing it on to their children. A carrier for a genetic disorder has inherited one normal and one abnormal allele for a gene associated with the disorder. A child must inherit two abnormal alleles in order for symptoms to appear. Prospective parents with a family history of a genetic disorders are candidates for carrier screening.
Industry:Health care
1) The act or process of adapting: the state of being adapted (his ingenious adaptation of the electric cautery knife to...surgery -- George Blumer).
2) Adjustment to environmental conditions: as a) adjustment of a sense organ to the intensity or quality of stimulation b) modification of an organism or its parts that makes it more fit for existence under the conditions of its environment.
Industry:Health care
1) The act or process of excreting.
2) Something eliminated by the process of excretion that is composed chiefly of urine or sweat in mammals including humans and of comparable materials in other animals, characteristically includes products of protein degradation (as urea or uric acid), usually differs from ordinary bodily secretions by lacking any further utility to the organism that produces it, and is distinguished from waste materials (as feces) that have merely passed into or through the alimentary canal without being incorporated into the body proper.
3) A waste product (as urine, feces, or vomit) eliminated from an animal body: excrement--not used technically.
Industry:Health care
1) The act or process of sticking together tightly.
2) The molecular attraction by which the particles of a body are united throughout the mass.
Industry:Health care
1) The action or process of contracting: the state of being contracted (contraction of hepatitis, lung expansion and contraction in breathing--P. G. Donohue).
2) The action of a functioning muscle or muscle fiber in which force is generated accompanied especially by shortening and thickening of the muscle or muscle fiber or sometimes by its lengthening (isometric contraction, isotonic contraction); especially: the shortening and thickening of a functioning muscle or muscle fiber.
3) One of usually a series of rhythmic tightening actions of the uterine muscles (as during menstruation or labor).
Industry:Health care
1) The affected individual through whom a family with a genetic disorder is ascertained; may or may not be the consultand (the individual presenting for genetic counseling)
2) A proband is an individual being studied or reported on. A proband is usually the first affected individual in a family who brings a genetic disorder to the attention of the medical community.
Industry:Health care
1) The basic cellular units of nervous tissue. Each neuron consists of a body, an axon, and dendrites. Their purpose is to receive, conduct, and transmit impulses in the nervous system.
2) A type of cell that receives and sends messages from the body to the brain and back to the body. The messages are sent by a weak electrical current. Also called a nerve cell.
Industry:Health care
1) The basin-like area outlined by the hip bones and the vertebral column (SPINE).
2) The lower part of the abdomen, located between the hip bones.
Industry:Health care
1) The body's defense mechanism against foreign organisms or substances and deviant native cells. It includes the humoral immune response and the cell-mediated response and consists of a complex of interrelated cellular, molecular, and genetic components.
2) The complex group of organs and cells that defends the body against infections and other diseases.
Industry:Health care
1) The bonelike rigid connective tissue covering the root of a tooth from the cementoenamel junction to the apex and lining the apex of the root canal, also assisting in tooth support by serving as attachment structures for the periodontal ligament.
2) Substance of tooth produced by cementoblasts; surrounds the dentine of the root of the tooth.
Industry:Health care
