- 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. Science dealing with the cause or origin of disease.
2. In individuals, the cause or origin of disease.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Science of using DNA and RNA based technologies to demonstrate alterations in genes expression.
2. (in toxicology) Method providing information on the consequences for genes expression of interactions of the organism with environmental stress, xenobiotics, etc.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Stage in the developing mammal at which the characteristic organs and organ systems are being formed: for humans, this involves the stages of development from the second to the eighth week (inclusive post conception).
2. In birds, the stage of development from the fertilization of the ovum up to hatching.
3. In plants, the stage of development within the seed.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. State of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
2. State of dynamic balance in which an individual's or a group's capacity to cope with the circumstances of living is at an optimal level.
3. State characterized by anatomical, physiological and psychological integrity, ability to perform personally valued family, work and community roles; ability to deal with physical, biological, psychological and social stress; a feeling of wellbeing; and freedom from the risk of disease and untimely death.
4. In ecology, a sustainable steady state in which humans and other living organisms can coexist indefinitely.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
1. Unduly rapid or throbbing heartbeat that is noted by a patient; it may be regular or irregular.
2. Undue awareness by a patient of a heartbeat that is otherwise normal.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
2-(1H-imidazol-4-yl)ethan-1-amine, an amine derived from histidine by decarboxylation and released from cells in the immune system as part of an allergic reaction: it is a powerful stimulant of gastric secretion, constrictor of bronchial smooth muscle, and vasodilator.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
A substance intended to kill pests.
Note: In common usage, any substance used for controlling, preventing, or destroying animal, microbiological or plant pests.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Ability to conceive and to produce offspring: for litter-bearing species the number of offspring per litter is used as a measure of fertility.
Note: Reduced fertility is sometimes referred to as subfertility.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Able to produce chemically an adverse effect on the nervous system: such effects may be subdivided into two types.
# Central nervous system effects (including transient effects on mood or performance and pre-senile dementia such as Alzheimer's disease).
# Peripheral nervous system effects (such as the inhibitory effects of organophosphorus compounds on synaptic transmission).
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
