- 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. Fluid component of blood in which the blood cells and platelets are suspended.
2. Fluid component of semen produced by the accessory glands, the seminal vesicles, the prostate, and the bulbo-urethral glands.
3. Cell substance outside the nucleus, i.e. the cytoplasm.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Formation of a placenta in the uterus.
2. Type or structure of a placenta.
3. In botany, arrangement of placentas within the plant ovary.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Generally, the overall process of the absorption (uptake) of potentially toxic substances by the body, the distribution of the substances and their metabolites in tissues and organs, their metabolism (biotransformation), and the elimination of the substances and their metabolites from the body.
2. In validating a toxicological study, the collection of toxicokinetic data, either as an integral component in the conduct of non-clinical toxicity studies or in specially designed supportive studies, in order to assess systemic exposure.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Giving a remedy.
2. Removal of pollution or contaminants from environmental media such as soil, groundwater, sediment, or surface water for the general protection of human health and the environment.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Group of individuals often taken at random from a population for research purposes.
2. One or more items taken from a population or a process and intended to provide information on the population or process.
3. Portion of material selected from a larger quantity so as to be representative of the whole.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. In biological systematics, group of organisms of common ancestry that are able to reproduce only among themselves and that are usually geographically distinct.
2. See chemical species
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. In cell biology, small bladder-like, membrane-bound sac containing aqueous solution or fat.
2. In pathology, blisterlike elevation on the skin containing serous fluid.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. In toxicology, evaluation of the therapeutic and potentially toxic effects of substances by their application through relevant routes of exposure with appropriate organisms or biological systems so as to relate effects to dose following application.
2. In chemistry, qualitative or quantitative analysis by the application of one or more fixed methods and comparison of the results with established standards.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Intensity, where the detection threshold level is defined as the lower limit of the perceived intensity range (by convention the lowest concentration that can be detected in 50% of the cases in which it is present).
2. Quality, where the recognition threshold level is defined as the lowest concentration at which the sensory effect can be recognized correctly in 50% of the cases.
3. Acceptability and annoyance, where the nuisance threshold level is defined as the concentration at which not more than a small proportion of the population, less than 5%, experiences annoyance for a small part of the time, less than 2%.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Making any substance, drug or other preparation conform to type or precisely defined characteristics.
2. Establishment of precisely defined characteristics, or precisely defined methods, for future reference.
3. Definition of precise procedures for administering, scoring and evaluating the results of a new method that is under development.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
