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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.
The lower right and left chambers of the heart. The right ventricle pumps venous blood into the lungs and the left ventricle pumps oxygenated blood into the systemic arterial circulation.
Industry:Medical
A genetic condition where an individual inherits the same alleles for a particular gene from both parents.
Industry:Medical
The longest bone of the upper arm or forelimb extending from the shoulder to the elbow, articulating above by a rounded head with the glenoid fossa, having below a broad articular surface divided by a ridge into a medial pulley-shaped portion and a lateral rounded eminence that articulate with the ulna and radius respectively, and providing various processes and modified surfaces for the attachment of muscles.
Industry:Medical
1) Exhibiting excessive tone or tension (a hypertonic baby, a hypertonic bladder).
2) Having a higher osmotic pressure than a surrounding medium or a fluid under comparison (animals that produce urine which is hypertonic to their blood. )
Industry:Medical
Hypertrophy of one half of an organ or part or of one side of the whole body (facial hemihypertrophy. )
Industry:Medical
1) Excessive functional activity of the thyroid gland.
2) Too much thyroid hormone. Symptoms include weight loss, chest pain, cramps, diarrhea, and nervousness. Also called overactive thyroid.
Industry:Medical
1) Excessive development of the male mammary glands, even to the functional state.
2) Excessive development of the breast in the male.
Industry:Medical
Flaps of tissue that prevent regurgitation of blood from the ventricles to the atria or from the pulmonary arteries or aorta to the ventricles.
Industry:Medical
