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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.
For an air pollutant, this is the additional lifetime cancer risk occurring in a hypothetical population in which all individuals are exposed continuously from birth throughout their lifetimes to a concentration of 1 microgram per cubic meter (μg m-3) of the pollutant in the air they breathe.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Form of confidence limit given as a stated probability, for example P = 0.95.
Note: In toxicology the terms fiducial limits and confidence limits are generally considered to be synonymous.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Formation of an ultrafiltrate of the blood occurring in the glomerulus of the kidney.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Fundamental rules incorporated in national regulations concerned with the process of effective organization of production and ensuring standards of defined quality at all stages of production, distribution and marketing.
Note: Minimization of waste and its proper disposal are part of this process.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Fundamental rules incorporated in OECD guidelines and national regulations concerned with the process of effective organization and the conditions under which laboratory studies are properly planned, performed, monitored, recorded, and reported.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Gene that can cause neoplastic (see neoplasia) transformation of a cell; oncogenes are slightly changed equivalents of normal genes known as proto-oncogenes.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
General term comprising tumors and conditions allied to tumors arising from some or all of the cells of lymphoid tissue.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
General term defining an administrative substance concentration or intensity of exposure that should not be exceeded.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Generalizability of the results of a particular study, beyond the limits of the population actually studied.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Generic value of exposure to a substance, or a group of substances falling within a defined structural class, below which there is expected to be no appreciable risk to human health.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
