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Care over an extended period, usually for a chronic condition or disability, requiring periodic, intermittent, or continuous care. The medical and social care given to persons who have severe, chronic impairments can consist of care in the home, by family members, assistance through voluntary or employed help, or care in institutions. Various types of facilities…

Movement or the ability to move from one place or another. It can refer to humans, vertebrate or invertebrate animals, and microorganisms. Movement from one location to another by means of walking, crawling, running, etc. The fact of being able to move. Mobility; self-propelled movement. Movement or the capacity to move from one place to…

Cancer which has not metastasized yet. Limited to a specific region or body part.  

The process of determining or marking the location or site of a lesion or disease. May also refer to the process of keeping a lesion or disease in a specific location or site. The ability to identify where a sound is coming from; a kind of auditory skill. Limiting of a condition, effect, or finding…

An element in the alkali metals family. It has the atomic symbol Li, atomic number 3, and atomic weight 6.94. Salts of lithium are used in treating manic-depressive disorders. An element used for the treatment of gout and, more recently, for the treatment of mania. It was approved for this latter use by the Food…

A drug preparation that contains the active drug in very tiny fat particles. This fat-encapsulated drug is absorbed better, and its distribution to the tumor site is improved.  

Peroxidase catalyzed oxidation of lipids using hydrogen peroxide as an electron acceptor.  

Lipid A is the biologically active component of lipopolysaccharides. It shows strong endotoxic activity and exhibits immunogenic properties.  

A general term for fats and oils. A family of compounds that are soluble in organic solvents but not in water. Fatty acids, including natural oils, waxes, and steroids. A general term for fats and oils (chemically triacylglycerols), waxes, phospholipids, steroids, and terpenes. Their common property is insolubility in water and solubility in hydrocarbons, chloroform,…

The tendency of two or more genes in the same chromosome to remain together from one generation to the next more frequently than expected according to the law of independent assortment. A phenomenon discovered by Thomas Hunt Morgan in the early 1900s via his experiments with fruit flies. This term describes the tendency of genes…