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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 cluster of convoluted capillaries beginning at each nephric tubule in the kidney and held together by connective tissue.
Industry:Health care
A cobalt-containing coordination compound produced by intestinal micro-organisms and found also in soil and water. Higher plants do not concentrate vitamin B 12 from the soil and so are a poor source of the substance as compared with animal tissues.
Industry:Health care
A coenzyme (C21H36N7O16P3S) that occurs in all living cells and is essential to the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats, and some amino acids.
Industry:Health care
A colorless crystalline peptide C16H28N4O4S occurring naturally (as in yeast) and yielding biotin and lysine on hydrolysis.
Industry:Health care
A common form of hyperthyroidism characterized by goiter and often a slight protrusion of the eyeballs -- called also Basedow's disease, exophthalmic goiter. Graves, Robert James (1796-1853) , British physician. Graves was one of the founders of the Irish school of medicine. He is remembered especially for his reforms in clinical teaching, such as giving advanced medical students actual clinical experience. His description in 1835 of the form of hyperthyroidism that now bears his name was not the first, but it is generally considered to be the first accurate account.
Industry:Health care
A complex sense concerned with the perception of bodily position and motion, mediated by end organs in the vestibular system and the semicircular canals, and stimulated by alterations in the pull of gravity and by head movements.
Industry:Health care
A condensed mass of chromatin that represents an inactivated X chromosome.
Industry:Health care
A condensed mass of chromatin that represents an inactivated X chromosome.
Industry:Health care
A condition caused by compression of the median nerve in the carpal tunnel and characterized especially by weakness, pain, and disturbances of sensation in the hand and fingers -- abbreviation CTS.
Industry:Health care
