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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 layer of deeply pigmented gray matter situated in the midbrain and containing the cell bodies of a tract of dopamine-producing nerve cells whose secretion tends to be deficient in Parkinson's disease.
Industry:Health care
A malignant tumor composed of cells showing differentiation toward sebaceous epithelium. The tumor is solitary, firm, somewhat raised, more or less translucent, and covered with normal or slightly verrucose epidermis. It may be yellow or orange. The face and scalp are the commonest sites. The growth can be slow or rapid but metastasis is uncommon. Surgery cures most of the cases. (From Rook et al., Textbook of Dermatology, 4th ed, pp2403-4)
Industry:Health care
A malignant tumor of the central nervous system and usually of a cerebral hemisphere -- called also spongioblastoma.
Industry:Health care
A malignant tumor of the central nervous system and usually of a cerebral hemisphere -- called also spongioblastoma.
Industry:Health care
A map depicting the relative order of a linked library of overlapping clones representing a complete chromosomal segment.
Industry:Health care
A measure of acidity and alkalinity of a solution that is a number on a scale on which a value of 7 represents neutrality and lower numbers indicate increasing acidity and higher numbers increasing alkalinity and on which each unit of change represents a tenfold change in acidity or alkalinity and that is the negative logarithm of the effective hydrogen-ion concentration or hydrogen-ion activity in gram equivalents per liter of the solution (instead of saying that the concentration of hydrogen ion in pure water is 1.00 x 10-7, it is customary to say that the pH of pure water is 7--Linus Pauling); also: the condition represented by such a number.
Industry:Health care
A measure of body fat that is the ratio of the weight of the body in kilograms to the square of its height in meters (a body mass index in adults of 25 to 29.9 is considered an indication of overweight, and 30 or more an indication of obesity)-- abbreviation BMI; called also Quetelet index.
Industry:Health care
A measure of body fat that is the ratio of the weight of the body in kilograms to the square of its height in meters (a body mass index in adults of 25 to 29.9 is considered an indication of overweight, and 30 or more an indication of obesity)-- abbreviation BMI; called also Quetelet index.
Industry:Health care
A membranous cellular tissue that covers a free surface or lines a tube or cavity of an animal body and serves especially to enclose and protect the other parts of the body, to produce secretions and excretions, and to function in assimilation.
Industry:Health care
