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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 single disorder, trait, or pattern of traits caused by mutations in genes at different chromosomal loci.
Industry:Health care
A skin disease characterized by small warty elevations or telangiectasias and epidermal thickening.
Industry:Health care
A slow-growing type of tumor usually found in the gastrointestinal system (most often in the appendix), and sometimes in the lungs or other sites. Carcinoid tumors may spread to the liver or other sites in the body, and they may secrete substances such as serotonin or prostaglandins, causing carcinoid syndrome.
Industry:Health care
A small bone or bony structure ; especially : any of three small bones of the middle ear including the malleus, incus, and stapes.
Industry:Health care
A small bony canal linking the vestibule of the inner ear to the posterior part of the internal surface of the petrous temporal bone. It surrounds the endolymphatic duct.
Industry:Health care
A small chromosome containing a centromere occasionally seen in tissue culture, often in a mosaic state (present in some cells but not in others). A marker chromosome may be of little clinical significance or, if it contains material from one or both arms of another chromosome, may create an imbalance for whatever genes are present; assessment to establish clinical significance, particularly if found in a fetal karyotype, is often difficult.
Industry:Health care
A small chromosome containing a centromere occasionally seen in tissue culture, often in a mosaic state (present in some cells but not in others). A marker chromosome may be of little clinical significance or, if it contains material from one or both arms of another chromosome, may create an imbalance for whatever genes are present; assessment to establish clinical significance, particularly if found in a fetal karyotype, is often difficult.
Industry:Health care
A small filament or fiber: as a: one of the fine threads into which a striated muscle fiber can be longitudinally split, b: neurofibril.
Industry:Health care
A small mass of tissue that is made up of Purkinje fibers, ganglion cells, and nerve fibers, that is embedded in the musculature of the right atrium of higher vertebrates, and that originates the impulses stimulating the heartbeat--called also S-A node, sinus node.
Industry:Health care
A small molecule that activates a particular genetic repressor by combining with it.
Industry:Health care
