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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 group of glycolipids in which the sugar group is galactose. They are distinguished from glycosphingolipids in lacking nitrogen. They constitute the majority of membrane lipids in plants.
Industry:Medical
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:Medical
The condition of accelerated and excessive growth in children or adolescents who are exposed to excess human growth hormone before the closure of epiphyses. It is usually caused by somatotroph hyperplasia or a growth-hormone secreting pituitary adenoma. These patients are of abnormally tall stature, more than 3 standard deviations above normal mean height for age.
Industry:Medical
1) An act or process of forming fibers or fibrils.
2) A muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination.
3) Very rapid irregular contractions of the muscle fibers of the heart resulting in a lack of synchronism between heartbeat and pulse.
Industry:Medical
1) A protein derived from fibrinogen in the presence of thrombin, which forms part of the blood clot.
2) A white insoluble fibrous protein formed from fibrinogen by the action of thrombin especially in the clotting of blood.
Industry:Medical
1) A condition occurring in a fetus or newborn due to in utero ethanol exposure when the mother consumed alcohol during pregnancy. It is characterized by a cluster of irreversible birth defects including abnormalities in physical, mental, and behavior development (such as fetal growth retardation; mental retardation; attention deficit and disruptive behavior disorders) with varied degree of severity in an individual.
2) A disorder occurring in children born to alcoholic women who continue to drink heavily during pregnancy; common abnormalities are growth deficiency (prenatal and postnatal), altered morphogenesis, mental deficiency, and characteristic facies - small eyes and flattened nasal bridge; fine motor dysfunction and tremulousness are observed in the newborn.
3) Developmental abnormalities in infants born to alcoholic mothers, including characteristic facial appearance (microcephaly, maxillary hypoplasia, short palpebral fissures, and short upturned nose), growth deficiency, delayed intellectual development, motor retardation, joint abnormalities, poor coordination, and irritability. The pattern of abnormalities varies and may include additional oral, ocular, cardiac, urogenital, cutaneous, and other abnormalities.
Industry:Medical
1) Abstaining from all food.
2) To abstain from food.
3) To eat sparingly or abstain from some foods.
Industry:Medical
A connecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain a part (as the tongue).
Industry:Medical
