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1) The condition that results from excessive loss of water from a living organism.
2) State of excessively reduced body water or water deficit.
3) The process of dehydrating; especially: an abnormal depletion of body fluids.
Industry:Health care
1) The constituent purine or pyrimidine bases of DNA or RNA with their corresponding deoxyribose or ribose sugars.
2) A compound (as guanosine or adenosine) that consists of a purine or pyrimidine base combined with deoxyribose or ribose and is found especially in DNA or RNA.
Industry:Health care
1) The convoluted cordlike structure attached to the posterior of the testis. Epididymis consists of the head (caput), the body (corpus), and the tail (cauda). A network of ducts leaving the testis joins into a common epididymal tubule proper which provides the transport, storage, and maturation of spermatozoa.
2) A system of ductules that emerges posteriorly from the testis, holds sperm during maturation, and forms a tangled mass before uniting into a single coiled duct which comprises the highly convoluted body and tail of the system and is continuous with the vas deferens.
Industry:Health care
1) The convoluted cordlike structure attached to the posterior of the testis. Epididymis consists of the head (caput), the body (corpus), and the tail (cauda). A network of ducts leaving the testis joins into a common epididymal tubule proper which provides the transport, storage, and maturation of spermatozoa.
2) A system of ductules that emerges posteriorly from the testis, holds sperm during maturation, and forms a tangled mass before uniting into a single coiled duct which comprises the highly convoluted body and tail of the system and is continuous with the vas deferens.
Industry:Health care
1) The cytoplasmic changes accompanying mitosis.
2) Cleavage of the cytoplasm into daughter cells following nuclear division.
Industry:Health care
1) The distal segment of the large intestine, between the sigmoid colon and the anus.
2) The last 6 inches of the large intestine.
Industry:Health care
1) The engulfing of liquids by cells by a process of invagination and closure of the cell membrane to form fluid-filled vacuoles.
2) The process whereby cells take in liquid material from their external environment; literally 'cell drinking'. Liquid is enclosed in vesicles, formed by invagination of the plasma membrane. These vesicles then move into the cell and pass their contents to endosomes.
Industry:Health care
1) The entire nerve apparatus, composed of a central part, the brain and spinal cord, and a peripheral part, the cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia, and plexuses. (Stedman, 26th ed)
2) The bodily system that in vertebrates is made up of the brain and spinal cord, nerves, ganglia, and parts of the receptor organs and that receives and interprets stimuli and transmits impulses to the effector organs.
Industry:Health care
1) The enzymatic addition of a sequence of adenylyl residues at the 3' end of an RNA molecule.
2) The addition of a tail of polyadenylic acid (poly A) to the 3' end of mRNA. Polyadenylation involves recognizing the processing site signal, (AAUAAA), and cleaving of the mRNA to create a 3' OH terminal end to which poly A polymerase adds 60-200 adenylate residues. The 3' end processing of some messenger RNAs, such as histone mRNA, is carried out by a different process that does not include the addition of poly A as described here.
Industry:Health care
1) The enzymatic addition of a sequence of adenylyl residues at the 3' end of an RNA molecule.
2) The addition of a tail of polyadenylic acid (poly A) to the 3' end of mRNA. Polyadenylation involves recognizing the processing site signal, (AAUAAA), and cleaving of the mRNA to create a 3' OH terminal end to which poly A polymerase adds 60-200 adenylate residues. The 3' end processing of some messenger RNAs, such as histone mRNA, is carried out by a different process that does not include the addition of poly A as described here.
Industry:Health care
