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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) This is a rare insulin secreting neuroendocrine tumor. The majority of insulinomas are small, non-metastatic and occur as solitary tumors. They are most often confined to the pancreas. Diagnostic examinations include: patient history for related hypoglycemic symptoms and fasting tests with repeated glucose and insulin levels. The treatment of choice is tumor resection. - 2002
2) A usually benign insulin-secreting tumor of the islets of Langerhans.
Industry:Health care
1) Thymine (T) is one of four chemical bases in DNA, the other three being adenine (A), cytosine (C), and guanine (G). Within the DNA molecule, thymine bases located on one strand form chemical bonds with adenine bases on the opposite strand. The sequence of four DNA bases encodes the cell's genetic instructions.
2) A pyrimidine base (C5H6N2O2) that is one of the four bases coding genetic information in the polynucleotide chain of DNA.
Industry:Health care
1) Tiny air sacs at the end of the bronchioles in the lungs.
2) A small cavity or pit: as a) a socket in the jaw for a tooth; b) any of the small thin-walled air-containing compartments of the lung that are typically arranged in saclike clusters into which an alveolar duct terminates and from which respiratory gases are exchanged with the pulmonary capillaries; c) an acinus of a compound gland; d) any of the pits in the wall of the stomach into which the glands open.
Industry:Health care
1) Tiny air sacs at the end of the bronchioles in the lungs.
2) A small cavity or pit: as a) a socket in the jaw for a tooth; b) any of the small thin-walled air-containing compartments of the lung that are typically arranged in saclike clusters into which an alveolar duct terminates and from which respiratory gases are exchanged with the pulmonary capillaries; c) an acinus of a compound gland; d) any of the pits in the wall of the stomach into which the glands open.
Industry:Health care
1) Tissue that supports and binds other tissues. It consists of connective tissue cells embedded in a large amount of extracellular matrix.
2) Supporting tissue that surrounds other tissues and organs. Specialized connective tissue includes bone, cartilage, blood, and fat.
Industry:Health care
1) Transmitted through genes that have been passed from parents to their offspring (children).
2) The reception of genetic qualities by transmission from parent to offspring.
3) All of the genetic characters or qualities transmitted from parent to offspring.
Industry:Health care
1) Transmitted through genes that have been passed from parents to their offspring (children).
2) The reception of genetic qualities by transmission from parent to offspring.
3) All of the genetic characters or qualities transmitted from parent to offspring.
Industry:Health care
1) Transparent gel filling the inner portion of the eyeball between the lens and the retina.
2) The clear colorless transparent jelly that fills the eyeball posterior to the lens, is enclosed by a delicate hyaloid membrane, and in the adult is nearly homogeneous but in the fetus is pervaded by fibers with minute nuclei at their points of junction.
Industry:Health care
1) Treatment of disease by the administration of substances which produce a biological reaction in the organism. It includes the use of sera, antitoxins, vaccines, cells, tissues, and organs. (From Dorland, 28th ed)
2) Treatment to stimulate or restore the ability of the immune system to fight infection and disease. Also used to lessen side effects that may be caused by some cancer treatments. Also known as immunotherapy, biotherapy, or biological response modifier (BRM) therapy.
Industry:Health care
1) Treatment that is given to help a primary (original) treatment keep working. Maintenance therapy is often given to help keep cancer in remission.
2) Treatment or therapy that is designed to maintain patients in a stable condition and to promote either gradual healing or to prevent the relapse of a disorder or condition. Used primarily, but not exclusively, in drug therapy settings.
Industry:Health care
