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United States National Library of Medicine
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.
Absolute number or incidence rate of cases occurring in a group of people.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Absorption by a living organism of a substance which it has previously absorbed and then released, e.g., the uptake of a substance from the proximal renal tubule following glomerular filtration.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Accepted maximum level of a pollutant (or its indicator) in the target organism, or some part thereof, or an accepted maximum intake of a pollutant or nuisance into the target under specified circumstances.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
According to the USEPA's Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment, sufficient evidence is a collection of facts and scientific references that is definite enough to establish that an adverse effect is caused by the agent in question.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Act of taking multiple samples concurrently under comparable conditions. Note: Replicate sampling may be accomplished by taking samples adjacent in time or space.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Action of a drug other than that desired for beneficial pharmacological effect.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Distribution of an element amongst defined chemical species in a system.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Disturbance of porphyrin metabolism characterized by increased formation, accumulation, and excretion of porphyrins and their precursors.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Dizziness; an illusion of movement as if the external world were revolving around an individual or as if the individual were revolving in space.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
DNA made by transplanting or splicing DNA into the DNA of host cells in such a way that the modified DNA can be replicated in the host cells in a normal fashion.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry