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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) Subjectively experienced sensations in the absence of an appropriate stimulus, but which are regarded by the individual as real. They may be of organic origin or associated with mental disorders.
2) Perceptions through any sense modality in the absence of an appropriate stimulus. (Usually indicative of abnormality but may be experienced occasionally by normal persons).
3) A hallucination is a false sensory perception in the absence of an external stimulus, as distinct from an illusion which is a misperception of an external stimulus. (from Wikipedia)
4) A perception of something (as a visual image or a sound) with no external cause usually arising from a disorder of the nervous system (as in delirium tremens or in functional psychosis without known neurological disease) or in response to drugs (as LSD).
5) The object of a hallucinatory perception.
Industry:Medical
1) Presence of blood in the urine.
2) A condition in which free hemoglobin is found in the urine.
3) Blood in the urine. Which may be a clinical finding or a laboratory finding (microscopic hematuria).
Industry:Medical
An energy-rich nucleotide analogous to ATP that is composed of guanine linked to ribose and three phosphate groups and is necessary for peptide bond formation during protein synthesis.
Industry:Medical
1) A heteropolysaccharide that is similar in structure to heparin. It accumulates in individuals with mucopolysaccharidosis.
2) Similar to heparin but with some L-iduronic acid residues.
3) Heparitin Sulfate. A glycosaminoglycan, structurally similar to heparin but with more N-acetyl groups and fewer O- and N-sulfate groups. Occurs in the liver, aorta, and lung. Accumulates in several mucopolysaccharidoses.
Industry:Medical
Mechanoreceptors located in the organ of Corti that are sensitive to auditory stimuli and in the vestibular apparatus that are sensitive to movement of the head. In each case the accessory sensory structures are arranged so that appropriate stimuli cause movement of the hair-like projections (stereocilia and kinocilia) which relay the information centrally in the nervous system.
Industry:Medical
1) The substance inside red blood cells that carries oxygen molecules.
2) The substance inside red blood cells that binds to oxygen and carries it from the lungs to the tissues.
Industry:Medical
Metabolic disorder characterized by elevated level of ammonia in blood.
Industry:Medical
Describes an individual who has only one member of a chromosome pair or chromosome segment rather than the usual two; refers in particular to X-linked genes in males who under usual circumstances have only one X chromosome.
Industry:Medical
