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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.
Literally, dis-ease, lack of ease; pathological condition that presents a group of symptoms peculiar to it and which establishes the condition as an abnormal entity different from other normal or pathological body states.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Living tissue removed from its normal environment and transferred to an artificial medium for growth.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Local deficiency of blood supply and hence oxygen to an organ or tissue owing to constriction of the blood vessels or to obstruction.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Localized accumulation of blood, usually clotted, in an organ, space, or tissue, due to a failure of the wall of a blood vessel.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Logarithm to the base 10 of the partition coefficient of a substance between octan-1-ol and water.
Note: This is used as an empirical measure for lipophilicity in calculating bioaccumulation, fish toxicity, membrane adsorption and penetration etc.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Loosening or detachment of the nail from the nail bed following some destructive process.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Lowest concentration of an air pollutant that can be considered objectionable.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Lowest concentration or amount of a substance (dose), found by experiment or observation, that causes any alteration in morphology, functional capacity, growth, development, or life span of target organisms distinguishable from normal (control) organisms of the same species and strain under the same defined conditions of exposure.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Lowest concentration or amount of a substance (dose), found by experiment or observation, which causes an adverse effect on morphology, functional capacity, growth, development, or life span of a target organism distinguishable from normal (control) organisms of the same species and strain under defined conditions of exposure.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Lowest dose of a chemical inducing a specified effect in a specified fraction of exposed individuals.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
