- Industria: 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.
Decision-making process involving considerations of political, social, economic, and engineering factors with relevant risk assessments relating to a potential hazard so as to develop, analyse, and compare regulatory options and to select the optimal regulatory response for safety from that hazard.
Note: Essentially risk management is the combination of three steps: risk evaluation; emission and exposure control; risk monitoring.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Decrease in the number of blood platelets (thrombocytes).
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Decrease of the caliber of the blood vessels leading to a decreased blood flow.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Decrease of the caliber of the blood vessels leading to a decreased blood flow.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Defect, often associated with inflammation, occurring locally or at the surface of an organ or tissue owing to sloughing of necrotic (see necrosis) tissue.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Degree to which the inferences drawn, especially generalizations extending beyond the study sample, are warranted when account is taken of the study methods, the representativeness of the study sample, and the nature of the population from which it is drawn.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Deliberate inhalation (or drinking) of volatile solvents, in order to become intoxicated.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Deliberate inhalation (or drinking) of volatile solvents, in order to become intoxicated.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Dependent action in which a substance or physical agent at a concentration or dose that does not itself have an adverse effect enhances the harm done by another substance or physical agent.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Describing a condition that can be expressed only as occurring or not occurring, such as death.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
