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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 condition characterized by abnormally small and imperfectly developed extremities.
Industry:Health care
A condition characterized by an abnormally elevated concentration of ketone bodies in the body tissues and fluids. It is a complication of diabetes mellitus and starvation. (Dorland, 27th ed)
Industry:Health care
A condition in which the body recognizes its own tissues as foreign and directs an immune response against them.
Industry:Health care
A condition in which the visual images come to a focus in front of the retina of the eye because of defects in the refractive media of the eye or of abnormal length of the eyeball resulting especially in defective vision of distant objects--called also nearsightedness.
Industry:Health care
A condition of arrested development in which an organ or part remains below the normal size or in an immature state.
Industry:Health care
A congenital abnormality characterized by the persistence of the anal membrane, resulting in a thin membrane covering the normal anal canal. Imperforation is not always complete and is treated by surgery in infancy. This defect is often associated with neural tube defects; mental retardation; and Down syndrome.
Industry:Health care
A congenital abnormality of the central nervous system marked by failure of the midline structures of the cerebellum to develop, dilation of the fourth ventricle, and upward displacement of the transverse sinuses, tentorium, and torcula. Clinical features include occipital bossing, progressive head enlargement, bulging of anterior fontanelle, papilledema, ataxia, gait disturbances, nystagmus, and intellectual compromise.
Industry:Health care
A congenital abnormality of the heart characterized by pulmonary stenosis, an opening in the interventricular septum, malposition of the aorta over both ventricles, and hypertrophy of the right ventricle. Fallot, �tienne-Louis-Arthur (1850-1911), French physician. Fallot published in 1888 an article on cardiac anomalies in which he described the form of congenital heart disease producing cyanosis that now bears his name. His description was not the first but an improvement that analyzed and correlated the clinical with postmortem observations and gave all four of the identifying characteristics.
Industry:Health care
A congenital deformity in which the limbs are extremely shortened so that the feet and hands arise close to the trunk.
Industry:Health care
