- Industri: 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.
Interpretation and communication of risk assessments in terms that are comprehensible to the general public or to others without specialist knowledge.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Intracellular effector substance increasing or decreasing as a result of the stimulation of a receptor by an agonist, considered as the ‘first messenger’.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Introduction of pollutants into a solid, liquid, or gaseous environmental medium, the presence of pollutants in a solid, liquid, or gaseous environmental medium, or any undesirable modification of the composition of a solid, liquid or gaseous environmental medium.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Irregular heartbeat characterized by uncoordinated contractions of the ventricle.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Kinetics of a reaction in which the rate is independent of the concentration(s) of the reactants.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Linear, usually single stranded, polymer of ribonucleotides, each containing the sugar ribose in association with a phosphate group and one of 4 nitrogenous bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, or uracil.
Note: RNA encodes the information for the sequence of amino-acids in proteins synthesized using it as a template.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Malignant tumor arising in a connective tissue and composed primarily of anaplastic cells resembling supportive tissue (see anaplasia).
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Map showing how much DNA, measured in base pairs, separates two genes.
Note: Not to be confused with a genetic map which shows the position of genes in relation to each other, based on the frequency of crossing overs.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Mass fraction of dust (particles) that penetrates to the unciliated airways of the lung (the alveolar region).
Note: This fraction is represented by a cumulative log-normal curve having a median aerodynamic diameter of 4 μm, standard deviation 2 μm (values for humans).
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
