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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) A benign (noncancerous) growth made up of an abnormal mixture of cells and tissues normally found in the area of the body where the growth occurs.
2) A mass resembling a tumor that represents anomalous development of tissue natural to a part or organ rather than a true tumor.
Industry:Medical
A domain in a protein that is encoded for by a homeobox, that consists of about 60 amino acid residues which are usually similar from one such domain to another, and that recognizes and binds to specific DNA sequences in genes regulated by the homeotic gene.
Industry:Medical
1) The separation of substances in solution by means of their unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes; especially: such a separation of colloids from soluble substances.
2) Either of two medical procedures to remove wastes or toxins from the blood and adjust fluid and electrolyte imbalances by utilizing rates at which substances diffuse through a semipermeable membrane: a: the process of removing blood from an artery (as of a kidney patient), purifying it by dialysis, adding vital substances, and returning it to a vein--called also hemodialysis b: a procedure performed in the peritoneal cavity in which the peritoneum acts as the semipermeable membrane--called also peritoneal dialysis.
Industry:Medical
A tube-like invagination of the epidermis from which the hair shaft develops and into which sebaceous glands open. The hair follicle is lined by a cellular inner and outer root sheath of epidermal origin and is invested with a fibrous sheath derived from the dermis. Follicles of very long hairs extend into the subcutaneous layer of tissue under the skin.
Industry:Medical
An increase in the range of movement of which a bodily part and especially a joint is capable (hypermobility of the left temporomandibular joint due to the looseness of the capsular ligaments).
Industry:Medical
A common form of hyperthyroidism characterized by goiter and often a slight protrusion of the eyeballs -- called also Basedow's disease, exophthalmic goiter. Graves, Robert James (1796-1853), British physician. Graves was one of the founders of the Irish school of medicine. He is remembered especially for his reforms in clinical teaching, such as giving advanced medical students actual clinical experience. His description in 1835 of the form of hyperthyroidism that now bears his name was not the first, but it is generally considered to be the first accurate account.
Industry:Medical
Formazione di vasi sanguigni quando nuovi vasi nascono dalla proliferazione di vasi sanguigni preesistenti.
Industry:Medical
Химическое вещество, продуцируемое железами организма и циркулирующее в кровеносной системе. Гормоны управляют деятельностью определенных клеток или органов.
Industry:Medical
1) Потребление количества пищи значительно больше оптимального.
2) Аномально высокий аппетит, появление которого зачастую связанос травмой гипоталамуса.
Industry:Medical
