| CE | California encephalitis; cardiac enlargement; cardioesophageal; carotid endarterectomy; catamenial e... |
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| NPA-NIHHDP | National Pituitary Agency-National Institutes of Health Hormone Distribution Program |
| CME | cervical mediastinal exploration; continuing medical education; Council on Medical Education; crude ... |
| DNE | Director of Nursing Education; Doctor of Nursing Education |
| CEARP | Continuing Education Approval and Recognition Program |
| NTP | National Toxicology Program |
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| HDL cholesterol | High density lipoprotein cholesterol |
| LDL-cholesterol | Low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol |
| LDL-C | lipoprotein cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol |
| ACGME | Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education |
| national health planning information centre | A centre in the health resources administration division of planning methods and technology which provides access to current information on health planning and resources development. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| national health programs | Components of a national health care system which administer specific services, e.g., national health insurance. (12 Dec 1998) |
| national institute for occupational safety and health | An institute of the centres for disease control and prevention which is responsible for assuring safe and healthful working conditions and for developing standards of safety and health. Research activities are carried out pertinent to these goals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| national institute of mental health | A component of the national institutes of health concerned with research, overall planning, promoting, and administering mental health programs and research. (12 Dec 1998) |
| National Institutes of Health | <organisation> A nonregulatory U.S. Federal agency which has oversight of research activities that the agency funds. (09 Oct 1997) |
| national library of medicine | An agency of the national institutes of health concerned with overall planning, promoting, and administering programs pertaining to various aspects of documentation and library services in the field of medicine. (12 Dec 1998) |
| national practitioner data bank | A databank established by the health care quality improvement act of 1986 authorizing the department of health and human services to collect and release information on the professional competence and conduct of physicians, dentists, nurses, and other health care practitioners. The data include adverse actions on physicians' malpractice, licensure, hospital privileges, concealing of pertinent information, and the like. (12 Dec 1998) |
| National Science Foundation | <organisation> A nonregulatory U.S. Federal agency which has oversight of biotechnology research activities that the agency funds. (09 Oct 1997) |
| united states national aeronautics and space administration | An independent federal agency established in 1958. It conducts research for the solution of problems of flight within and outside the earth's atmosphere and develops, constructs, tests, and operates aeronautical and space vehicles. (12 Dec 1998) |
| los alamos national laboratory | <radiobiology> Major DOE research facility, located in Los Alamos, new Mexico, about an hour west of Santa Fe. Former home of a frozen-deuterium-fibre Z-pinch device, which was dismantled. Home to an active theory division, including the Numerical Tokamak Grand Challenge (being performed on the CM-5 massively-parallel supercomputer). Also home to former alternative-concepts experimental devices like Scyllac, FRX-A, FRX-B, FRX-C/LSM, ZT40, and the aborted CPRF which was killed in 1991 when it was almost complete (budget cuts). Currently there are some small in-house experiments, including one on electrostatic confinement as a possible fusion device, and/or a compact neutron source. They also do theory and experimental collaboration with other labs worldwide. (09 Oct 1997) |
| acid cholesterol ester synthetase | <enzyme> Aortal enzyme, does not require exogenous ATP or CoA; reverse reaction of cholesterol esterase Registry number: EC 3.1.1.- Synonym: cholesterol ester synthetase (26 Jun 1999) |
| good cholesterol | High-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cholesterol | 1. <biochemistry> A pearly, fatlike steroid alcohol, C27H45OH, crystallizing in the form of leaflets or plates from dilute alcohol and found in animal fats and oils, in bile, blood, brain tissue, milk, yolk of egg, myelin sheaths of nerve fibres, the liver, kidneys and adrenal glands. It constitutes a large part of the most frequently occurring type of gallstones and occurs in atheroma of the arteries, in various cysts and in carcinomatous tissue. Most of the bodys cholesterol is synthesised in the liver, but some is absorbed from the diet. It is a precursor of bile acids and is important in the synthesis of steroid hormones. 2. <chemical> A commercial preparation of cholesterol is used as a pharmaceutic aid. Synonym: cholesterin. Origin: Gr. Stereos = solid (15 Jan 1998) |
| cholesterol 26-hydroxylase | <enzyme> Cyt p-450 dependent, ferredoxin involved Registry number: EC 1.14.15.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| cholesterol-5 alpha,6 alpha-epoxide hydrase | <enzyme> Aspect of epoxide hydrolase, EC 3.3.2.3 Pharmacological action: carcinogen Registry number: EC 3.3.2.- Synonym: cholesterol epoxide hydrase, cholesterol epoxide hydrolase (26 Jun 1999) |