- Industry: Library & information science
- Number of terms: 152252
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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.
Practical control measures used to improve the basic environmental conditions affecting human health, for example clean water supply, human and animal waste disposal, protection of food from biological contamination, and housing conditions, all of which are concerned with the quality of the human environment.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Predicted concentration of a substance, typically a pesticide, within an environmental compartment based on estimates of quantities released, discharge patterns and inherent disposition of the substance (fate and distribution) as well as the nature of the specific receiving ecosystems.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Prediction of the daily intake of a residue of a potentially harmful agent based on the most realistic estimation of the residue levels in food and the best available food consumption data for a specific population: residue levels are estimated taking into account known uses of the agent, the range of contaminated commodities, the proportion of a commodity treated, and the quantity of home-grown or imported commodities.
Note: The EDI is expressed in mg residue per person.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Prediction of the maximum daily intake of a residue of a potentially harmful agent based on assumptions of average food consumption per person and maximum residues in the edible portion of a commodity, corrected for the reduction or increase in residues resulting from preparation, cooking, or commercial processing.
Note: The EMDI is expressed in mg residue per person.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Predisposition to a particular disease or sensitivity to a substance due to the presence of a specific allele or combination of alleles in an individual’s genome.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Prefix meaning above or excessive: when used with the suffix “-emia” refers to blood and with the suffix “-uria” refers to urine, for example “hyperbilirubinemia”.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Prefix meaning above or excessive: when used with the suffix “-emia” refers to blood and with the suffix “-uria” refers to urine, for example “hyperbilirubinemia”.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Prefix meaning under, deficient: when used with the suffix “-emia” refers to blood and with the suffix “-uria” refers to urine, for example “hypocalcemia”.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Presence of a substance in nature, as distinct from presence resulting from inputs from human activities.
Note: The contamination of the natural environment by some man-made compounds may be so widespread that it is practically impossible to get access to biota with a truly natural level; only ‘normal’ levels can be measured, those which are usually prevalent in places where there is no obvious local contamination.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Presence of abnormally large amounts of fluid in intercellular spaces of body tissues.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
