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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) The genetic relationships and medical history of a family; when represented in diagram form using standardized symbols and terminology, usually referred to as a pedigree.
2) A record of a person's current and past illnesses, and those of his or her parents, brothers, sisters, children, and other family members. A family history shows the pattern of certain diseases in a family, and helps to determine risk factors for those and other diseases.
3) A family history is a record of medical information about an individual and their biological family. Human genetic data is becoming more prevalent and easy to obtain. Increasingly, this data is being used to identify individuals who are at increased risk for developing genetic disorders that run in families.
Industry:Health care
1) The Human Genome Project was an international project that mapped and sequenced the entire human genome. Completed in April 2003, data from the project are freely available to researchers and others interested in genetics and human health.
2) Collective name for several projects begun in 1986 by DOE to create an ordered set of DNA segments from known chromosomal locations, develop new computational methods for analyzing genetic map and DNA sequence data, and develop new techniques and instruments for detecting and analyzing DNA. This DOE initiative is now known as the Human Genome Program. The joint national effort, led by DOE and NIH, is known as the Human Genome Project.
Industry:Health care
1) The Human Genome Project was an international project that mapped and sequenced the entire human genome. Completed in April 2003, data from the project are freely available to researchers and others interested in genetics and human health.
2) Collective name for several projects begun in 1986 by DOE to create an ordered set of DNA segments from known chromosomal locations, develop new computational methods for analyzing genetic map and DNA sequence data, and develop new techniques and instruments for detecting and analyzing DNA. This DOE initiative is now known as the Human Genome Program. The joint national effort, led by DOE and NIH, is known as the Human Genome Project.
Industry:Health care
1) the hydrogen ion concentration or pH.
2) The quality, state, or degree of being sour or chemically acid <the acidity of lemon juice>.
3) The quality or state of being excessively or abnormally acid.
Industry:Health care
1) the hydrogen ion concentration or pH.
2) The quality, state, or degree of being sour or chemically acid <the acidity of lemon juice>.
3) The quality or state of being excessively or abnormally acid.
Industry:Health care
1) The inability to produce children.
2) Not fertile; especially : incapable of or unsuccessful in achieving pregnancy over a considerable period of time (as a year) in spite of determined attempts by heterosexual intercourse without contraception <infertile couples> <an infertile male with a low sperm count> <an infertile female with blocked fallopian tubes>.
Industry:Health care
1) The interval between two successive cell divisions during which the chromosomes are not individually distinguishable. Interphase is considered the resting stage of the cell.
2) The period in the cell cycle when DNA is replicated in the nucleus; followed by mitosis.
3) The interval between the end of one mitotic or meiotic division and the beginning of another -- called also resting stage.
Industry:Health care
1) The interval between two successive cell divisions during which the chromosomes are not individually distinguishable. Interphase is considered the resting stage of the cell.
2) The period in the cell cycle when DNA is replicated in the nucleus; followed by mitosis.
3) The interval between the end of one mitotic or meiotic division and the beginning of another -- called also resting stage.
Industry:Health care
1) The junction between the axon of a motor neuron and a muscle fiber. In response to the arrival of action potentials, the presynaptic button releases molecules of neurotransmitters into the synaptic cleft. These diffuse across the cleft and transmit the signal to the postsynaptic membrane of the muscle fiber, leading to a post-synaptic potential responsible of the muscle contraction.
2) The synapse between a neuron and a muscle.
Industry:Health care
1) The large arterial trunk that carries blood from the heart to be distributed by branch arteries through the body.
2) The largest artery in the body. It carries oxygen-rich blood away from the heart to vessels that reach the rest of the body.
Industry:Health care
