- Industry: Library & information science
- Number of terms: 152252
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
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.
Pertaining to the layer of flat cells lining the inner surface of blood and lymphatic vessels, and the surface lining of serous and synovial membranes.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Pesticide (herbicide) used for the control of weedy grasses (Gramineae).
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Phrase applied to data generated and analysed using computer modeling and information technology.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Phrase used to describe the U.S. FDA philosophy that justifies approval of food additives that may not meet the usual test criteria for safety but have been used extensively and have not demonstrated to cause any harm to consumers.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Physiologically based reproducible, unpleasant (adverse) reaction to a specific food or food ingredient that is not immunologically based.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Point mutation involving either the deletion or insertion of one or two nucleotides in a gene: by the frame shift mutation, the normal reading frame used when decoding nucleotide triplets in the gene is altered.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Portion of a conjugated metabolite that is derived from the parent molecule.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Portion of a conjugated metabolite which is derived from a natural product (such as a sugar, amino acid or other organic acid) of the metabolizing organism.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Practical control measures used to improve the basic environmental conditions affecting human health, for example clean water supply, human and animal waste disposal, protection of food from biological contamination, and housing conditions, all of which are concerned with the quality of the human environment.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
