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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.
Presence of abnormally large amounts of fluid in intercellular spaces of body tissues.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Present in a community or among a group of animals; said of a disease prevailing continually in a region.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Present in a community or among a group of people; said of a disease prevailing continually in a region.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Probability that an agent produces an observed response, as distinguished from the probability that the response is caused by a spontaneous event unrelated to the agent.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Probability that an individual person will experience an adverse effect.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Procedure for evaluating the dietary intake of a large number of people.
Note 1: The accuracy of the method depends on the accuracy with which records of the food consumption can be established and the accuracy of the nutritional tables specifying the concentration of various nutrients, vitamins, essential, and non-essential substances including pesticide residues.
Note 2: For each record of quantity of food consumed during a certain time period, the daily intake of the substance in question is calculated by multiplying the substance concentration in the food item (as obtained from the nutritional table) by the quantity of food consumed and dividing by the time of observation.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Process by which particulate material is endocytosed by a cell.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Process of classification of an analyte or a group of analytes from a sample according to physical (e.g. size, solubility) or chemical (e.g. bonding, reactivity) properties.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Process of extrapolating from the doses of one animal species to another, for example from rodent dose to human equivalent.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Process of formation of the ovum (plural ova), the female gamete.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
