- Industry: Library & information science
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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.
People (or other organisms) who have been exposed to a supposed cause of a disease or health state of interest, or possess a characteristic that is a determinant of the health outcome of interest.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Period from fertilization to the end of major organogenesis.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Period taken for the plasma concentration of a substance to decrease by half.
Note: May also be applied to other body compartments such as blood, specific organs, or tissues.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Periodic medico-physiological examinations of exposed workers with the objective of protecting health and preventing occupationally related disease.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Persistently high blood pressure in the arteries or in a circuit, for example pulmonary hypertension or hepatic portal hypertension.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Pertaining or communicating with the stomach and intestine.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Pertaining to a tuft or cluster, as of a plexus of capillary blood vessels or nerve fibers, especially referring to the capillaries of the glomerular of the kidney.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Pertaining to an abnormally decreased volume of circulating fluid (plasma) in the body.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Pertaining to effects on sex glands and on the systems that regulate them.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Pertaining to hormones or to the glands that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
