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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.
A benign condition in which there is a higher-than-normal level of a protein called M protein in the blood. Patients with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance are at an increased risk of developing cancer. Also called MGUS.
Industry:Health care
A benign growth on the skin (usually tan, brown, or flesh-colored) that contains a cluster of melanocytes and surrounding supportive tissue.
Industry:Health care
A benign tumor (as a wart or condyloma) resulting from an overgrowth of epithelial tissue on papillae of vascularized connective tissue (as of the skin).
Industry:Health care
A benign tumor composed of bone tissue or a hard tumor of bonelike structure developing on a bone (homoplastic osteoma) or on other structures (heteroplastic osteoma). (From Dorland, 27th ed)
Industry:Health care
A broad category of enzymes that are involved in the process of genetic recombination.
Industry:Health care
A brown or greenish brown ring of copper deposits around the cornea that is characteristic of Wilson's disease. Kayser, Bernhard (1869-1954) , and Fleischer, Bruno Otto (1874-1965) , German ophthalmologists. Kayser described the corneal ring that is a diagnostic symptom of Wilson's disease in 1902. Fleischer published his own description.
Industry:Health care
A bulbous anterior projection of the olfactory lobe that is the place of termination of the olfactory nerves.
Industry:Health care
A bulbous anterior projection of the olfactory lobe that is the place of termination of the olfactory nerves.
Industry:Health care
