- Industry: Library & information science
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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 diminution of the skeletal muscle tone marked by a diminished resistance to passive stretching.
Industry:Health care
A disease in which the function or structure of the affected tissues or organs changes for the worse over time. Osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer's disease are examples.
Industry:Health care
A disease in which the function or structure of the affected tissues or organs changes for the worse over time. Osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer's disease are examples.
Industry:Health care
A disease of adults that is characterized by softening of the bones and is analogous to rickets in the young.
Industry:Health care
A disease or condition that persists or progresses over a long period of time.
Industry:Health care
A disease that occurs especially in middle-aged women, that is characterized by red raised often painful patches on the skin, fever, and neutrophilia in the peripheral blood, that responds to treatment with corticosteroids but not antibiotics, and that is of unknown cause but is sometimes associated with an underlying malignant disorder -- called also acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis.
Industry:Health care
A disorder caused by a dominant mutation in a gene on the X chromosome that is observed almost exclusively in females because it is almost always lethal in males who inherit the gene mutation.
Industry:Health care
A disorder of reabsorption in the proximal convoluted tubules of the kidney characterized especially by the presence of glucose, amino acids, and phosphates in the urine.
Industry:Health care
A disorder of the skin caused by inflammation of the skin glands and hair follicles; specifically: a form found chiefly in adolescents and marked by pimples especially on the face.
Industry:Health care
