| NIGMS | National Institute of General Medical Sciences |
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| NIHS | National Institute of Hypertension Studies |
| NIIS | National Institute of Infant Services |
| NIMH | National Institute of Mental Health |
| NINCDS | National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke |
| dried human albumin | A sterile preparation of serum albumin obtained by fractionating blood plasma proteins from healthy persons; used as a transfusion material and to treat oedema due to hypoproteinaemia. Synonym: dried human albumin. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| dried human plasma protein fraction | Freeze-dried human plasma protein fraction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dried human serum | Serum prepared by drying liquid human serum by freeze-drying or by any other method that will avoid denaturation of the proteins and will yield a product readily soluble in a quantity of water equal to the volume of liquid human serum from which it was prepared. (05 Mar 2000) |
| influenza a virus, human | Strains of influenza a virus causing influenza and sometimes pneumonia in humans. Transmission is by aerosol. (12 Dec 1998) |
| iodinated 131I human serum albumin | A sterile, buffered, isotonic solution prepared to contain not less than 10 mg of radioiodinated normal human serum albumin per ml, and adjusted to provide not more than 1 mCi of radioactivity per ml; used as a diagnostic aid in the measurement of blood volume and cardiac output. (05 Mar 2000) |
| enteric cytopathogenic human orphan virus | eCHO virus |
| united states dept. Of health and human services | A department of the united states government concerned with administering those agencies and offices having programs pertaining to health and human services. (12 Dec 1998) |
| forefoot, human | The forepart of the foot including the metatarsals and the toes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| liquid human serum | The pool of fluids separated from blood withdrawn from human subjects and allowed to clot in the absence of any anticoagulant; not more than 10 separate donations are pooled; the contributions from donors of A, O, and either B or AB groups are represented in approximately the ratio 9:9:2. (05 Mar 2000) |