- 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.
1. Amount of a substance that is left from the total absorbed after a certain time following exposure.
2. Holding back within the body or within an organ, tissue or cell of matter that is normally eliminated.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Any abnormal swelling or growth of tissue, whether benign or malignant.
2. An abnormal growth, in rate and structure, that arises from normal tissue, but serves no physiological function.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Any abnormal swelling or growth of tissue, whether benign or malignant.
2. An abnormal growth, in rate and structure, that arises from normal tissue, but serves no physiological function.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Capacity to cause injury to a living organism defined with reference to the quantity of substance administered or absorbed, the way in which the substance is administered and distributed in time (single or repeated doses), the type and severity of injury, the time needed to produce the injury, the nature of the organism(s) affected and other relevant conditions.
2. Adverse effects of a substance on a living organism defined as in 1.
3. Measure of incompatibility of a substance with life: this quantity may be expressed as the reciprocal of the absolute value of median lethal dose (1/LD50) or concentration (1/LC50).
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Carrying out of a test or tests, examination(s) or procedure(s) in order to expose undetected abnormalities, unrecognized (incipient) diseases, or defects: examples are mass X-rays and cervical smears.
2. Pharmacological or toxicological screening consists of a specified set of procedures to which a series of compounds is subjected to characterize pharmacological and toxicological properties and to establish dose-effect and dose-response relationships.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Cell such as a fertilized egg resulting from the fusion of two gametes.
2. Cell obtained as a result of complete or partial fusion of cells produced by meiosis.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Characterized by tension, especially muscular tension.
2. Medical preparation that increases or restores normal muscular tension.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Collection of individuals, items, measurements, etc. about which inferences are required: the term is sometimes used to indicate the population from which a sample is drawn and sometimes to denote any reference population about which inferences are needed.
2. Group of persons for whom an intervention is planned.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Condition in which the blood contains toxins produced by body cells at a local source of infection or derived from the growth of microorganisms.
2. Pregnancy-related condition characterized by high blood pressure, swelling and fluid retention, and proteins in the urine.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Duplicated or repeated performance of an experiment under similar (controlled) conditions to reduce to a minimum the error, and to estimate the variations and thus obtain a more precise result: each determination, including the first is called a replicate.
2. Process whereby the genetic material is duplicated.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
