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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 daughter cell of an organism that reproduces by budding; formed by pinching off part of the parent cell.
Industry:Health care
A deficiency of blood coagulation factor V (known as proaccelerin or accelerator globulin or labile factor) leading to a rare hemorrhagic tendency known as Owren's disease or parahemophilia. It varies greatly in severity. Factor V deficiency is an autosomal recessive trait. (Dorland, 27th ed)
Industry:Health care
A deformed claw-shaped toe and especially the second that results from permanent angular flexion between one or both phalangeal joints--called also claw toe.
Industry:Health care
A deformed claw-shaped toe and especially the second that results from permanent angular flexion between one or both phalangeal joints--called also claw toe.
Industry:Health care
A deformed hip joint in which the neck of the femur is bent downward.
Industry:Health care
A deformity of the hand marked by deviation or deflection of the fingers.
Industry:Health care
A deformity of the hand marked by deviation or deflection of the fingers.
Industry:Health care
A depression of the anterior wall of the chest produced by a sinking in of the sternum.
Industry:Health care
A diffuse system of cells of varying lineage that include especially the macrophages and the phagocytic endothelial cells lining blood sinuses and that were originally grouped together because of their supposed phagocytic properties based on their ability to take up the vital dye trypan blue.
Industry:Health care
