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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.
The longest part of the large intestine, which is a tube-like organ connected to the small intestine at one end and the anus at the other. The colon removes water and some nutrients and electrolytes from partially digested food. The remaining material, solid waste called stool, moves through the colon to the rectum and leaves the body through the anus.
Industry:Medical
La parte più grande dell'intestino crasso che è un organo a forma di tubo collegato all'intestino tenue da una parte e all'ano dall'altra. Il colon assorbe l'acqua e alcuni nutrienti ed elettroliti dal cibo parzialmente digerito. Il materiale di scarto solido che rimane, chiamato feci, si muove attraverso il colon verso il retto e lascia il corpo attraverso l'ano.
Industry:Medical
1) Intellectual or mental process whereby an organism becomes aware of or obtains knowledge.
2) The act or process of knowing, perceiving, or remembering.
3) Act or process of knowing which includes awareness and judgment, perceiving, reasoning, and conceiving.
Industry:Medical
A minute short hairlike process often forming part of a fringe; especially: one of a cell that is capable of lashing movement and serves especially in free unicellular organisms to produce locomotion or in higher forms a current of fluid.
Industry:Medical
A slowly progressing type of myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative disease in which too many myelomonocytes (a type of white blood cell) are in the bone marrow, crowding out other normal blood cells, such as other white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets.
Industry:Medical
1) An identical copy of a DNA sequence or entire gene; one or more cells derived from and identical to a single ancestor cell; to isolate a gene or specific sequence of DNA
2) An exact copy made of biological material such as a DNA segment (e.g., a gene or other region), a whole cell, or a complete organism.
Industry:Medical
1) The thin layer of gray matter on the surface of the cerebral hemisphere that develops from the telencephalon and folds into gyri. It reaches its highest development in man and is responsible for intellectual faculties and higher mental functions.
2) The convoluted surface layer of gray matter of the cerebrum that functions chiefly in coordination of sensory and motor information -- called also pallium.
Industry:Medical
1) The cell center, consisting of a pair of centrioles surrounded by a cloud of amorphous material called the pericentriolar region. During interphase, the centrosome nucleates microtubule outgrowth. The centrosome duplicates and, during mitosis, separates to form the two poles of the mitotic spindle (mitotic spindle apparatus).
2) A centrosome is a cellular structure involved in the process of cell division. Before cell division, the centrosome duplicates and then, as division begins, the two centrosomes move to opposite ends of the cell. Proteins called microtubules assemble into a spindle between the two centrosomes and help separate the replicated chromosomes into the daughter cells.
Industry:Medical
1) Negatively charged chlorine atom, Cl-.
2) A chlorine anion that forms the negatively charged part of certain salts, including sodium and hydrogen chloride salts, and is an essential electrolyte located in all body fluids responsible for maintaining acid/base balance, transmitting nerve impulses and regulating fluid in and out of cells.
Industry:Medical
1) Structure found in the nucleus of a cell, which contains the genes. Chromosomes come in pairs, and a normal human cell contains 46 chromosomes.
2) Physical structure consisting of DNA and supporting proteins called chromatin. Human cells normally contain 46 chromosomes identified as 23 pairs; 22 pairs are autosomes and one pair are the sex chromosomes
3) A chromosome is an organized package of DNA found in the nucleus of the cell. Different organisms have different numbers of chromosomes. Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes--22 pairs of numbered chromosomes, called autosomes, and one pair of sex chromosomes, X and Y. Each parent contributes one chromosome to each pair so that offspring get half of their chromosomes from their mother and half from their father.
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