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United States Department of Health and Human Services, Radiation Emergency Medical Management
Cambios de los químicos que tienen lugar en una célula o un organismo. Estos cambios hacen que las células de materiales y energía y los organismos necesitan para crecer, reproducirse y mantenerse saludable. Metabolismo también ayuda a deshacerse de sustancias tóxicas.
Industry:Health care
A type of cell that receives and sends messages from the body to the brain and back to the body. The messages are sent by a weak electrical current. Also called nerve cell.
Industry:Health care
A condition in children in which bones become soft and deformed because they don’t have enough calcium and phosphorus. It is caused by not having enough vitamin D in the diet or by not getting enough sunlight. In adults, this condition is called osteomalacia. Also called infantile rickets, juvenile rickets, and rickets.
Industry:Health care
Un examen utilizado para medir la cantidad de ácido gástrico por el estómago. El paciente recibe una inyección de la hormona gastrina o de insulina. Se introduce un tubo a través de la nariz o la garganta hasta el estómago y las muestras son tomadas desde el estómago y envía a un laboratorio para la prueba. También se llama la secreción ácida gástrica y prueba de estimulación de ácido estomacal.
Industry:Health care
A symptom or medical condition that makes a particular treatment or procedure inadvisable because a person is likely to have a bad reaction. For example, having a bleeding disorder is a contraindication for taking aspirin because treatment with aspirin may cause excess bleeding.
Industry:Health care
A virus that has an outer wrapping or envelope. This envelope comes from the infected cell, or host, in a process called "budding off." During the budding process, newly formed virus particles become "enveloped" or wrapped in an outer coat that is made from a small piece of the cell's plasma membrane. The envelope may play a role in helping a virus survive and infect other cells.
Industry:Health care
