- Industria: 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.
Any radiation consisting of directly or indirectly ionizing particles or a mixture of both or photons with energy higher than the energy of photons of ultraviolet light or a mixture of both such particles and photons.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Any substance (such as thiouracil) that induces the formation of a goiter.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Any substance or mixture of substances found in man or animals or in food and water following use of a pesticide: the term includes any specified derivatives, such as degradation and conversion products, metabolites, reaction products and impurities considered to be of toxicological significance.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Any substance which when absorbed into a living organism may modify one or more of its functions.
Note: The term is generally accepted for a substance taken for a therapeutic purpose, but is also commonly used for abused substances.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Any substance, not normally consumed as a food by itself and not normally used as a typical ingredient of a given food, whether or not it has nutritive value, that is added intentionally to food for a technological (including organoleptic) purpose in the manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packing, packaging, transport or holding of the food. Addition results, or may be reasonably expected to result (directly or indirectly), in the substance or its byproducts becoming a component of, or otherwise affecting, the characteristics of the food to which it is added.
Note: The term does not include “contaminants” or substances added to food for maintaining or improving nutritional qualities.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Appraisal of the possible environmental consequences of a past, ongoing, or planned action, resulting in the production of an environmental impact statement or ‘finding of no significant impact (FONSI)’.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Aqueous solution filling the narrow spaces between cells.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Associated with a hospital or infirmary, especially used of diseases that may result from treatment in such an institution.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Association between dose and the incidence of a defined biological effect in an exposed population usually expressed as percentage.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
