- 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. Means by which something may be followed; for example a radioactive isotope may replace a stable chemical element in a toxic compound enabling the toxicokinetics to be followed.
2. Labeled member of a population used to measure certain properties of that population.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Operational techniques and activities that are used to fulfill requirements for quality.
2. In toxicology, procedures incorporated in experimental protocols to reduce the possibility of error, especially human error.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Pertaining to the body as opposed to the mind.
2. Pertaining to nonreproductive cells or tissues.
3. Pertaining to the framework of the body as opposed to the viscera.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Pneumoconiosis resulting from the inhalation of iron dust.
2. Excess of iron in the urine, blood or tissues, characterized by hemosiderin granules in urine and iron deposits in tissues.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Potential to cause the production of nonheritable structural malformations or defects in offspring.
2. Production of nonheritable structural malformations or defects in offspring.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Probability of adverse effects caused under specified circumstances by an agent in an organism, a population or an ecological system.
2. Probability of a hazard causing an adverse effect.
3. Expected frequency of occurrence of a harmful event arising from such an exposure.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Process by which a substance such as a hormone or enzyme produced in a cell is passed through a plasma membrane No Entry to the outside, for example the intestinal lumen or the blood (internal secretion).
2. Solid, liquid or gaseous material passed from the inside of a cell through a plasma membrane to the outside as a result of cell activity.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Process for sorting people into groups based on their need for or likely benefit from immediate medical treatment.
2. System used to allocate a scarce commodity, such as food, to those most likely to benefit from it.
3. Process in which things are ranked in terms of importance or priority.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Process leading to partial or complete restoration of a cell, tissue, organ or organism following its damage from exposure to a harmful substance or agent.
2. Term used in analytical and preparative chemistry to denote the fraction of the total quantity of a substance recoverable following a chemical procedure.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Process of supplying a building or room with fresh air.
2. Process of exchange of air between the ambient atmosphere and the lungs.
3. In physiology, the amount of air inhaled per day.
4. Oxygenation of blood.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
