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Subjects term Scope note Archival description count Authority record count
Immunogenetics 1 0
Transplants

Use for: Cell Transplants, Grafts, Organ Grafts, Organ Transplants, Tissue Grafts, Tissue Transplants

  • Annotation: use for the transplant itself: use TRANSPLANTATION for the surgical procedure; specifics; coordinate IM with organ / transpl (IM) or precoordinated organ / transplantation term (IM) Scope Note
  • Scope Note: Organs, tissues, or cells taken from the body for grafting into another area of the same body or into another individual.
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Scientists 1 0
Health Science Librarians 1 0
Grave Robbing

Use for: Grave Robbery

  • Stealing of corpses after burial, especially for medical dissection. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in the absence of laws governing the acquisition of dissecting material for the study of anatomy, the needs of anatomy classes were met by surreptitious methods: body-snatching and grave robbing. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed; from Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine, 4th ed, p447; from Castiglioni, A History of Medicine, 2d ed, p676)
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Dissection
  • The separation and isolation of tissues for surgical purposes, or for the analysis or study of their structures.
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History, 18th century 4 0
Libraries, Medical

Use for: Libraries, Biomedical, Library, Medical, Medical Libraries, Medical Library, Libraries, Health Science

  • Annotation: private & public libraries; includes private collections of books; specify geographic or other site
  • Scope Note: Collection of information resources relevant to MEDICINE.
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Medical librarianship

Use for: Health sciences librarianship

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Insulin

Use for: Iletin, Insulin A Chain, Insulin B Chain, Insulin, Regular, Novolin, Sodium Insulin, Soluble Insulin

  • A 51-amino acid pancreatic hormone that plays a major role in the regulation of glucose metabolism, directly by suppressing endogenous glucose production (GLYCOGENOLYSIS; GLUCONEOGENESIS) and indirectly by suppressing GLUCAGON secretion and LIPOLYSIS. Native insulin is a globular protein comprised of a zinc-coordinated hexamer. Each insulin monomer containing two chains, A (21 residues) and B (30 residues), linked by two disulfide bonds. Insulin is used as a drug to control insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1).
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American Civil War

Use for: U. S. Civil War, 1861-1865, War Between the States, War of Secession, War of the Rebellion

  • 1861-1865 conflict between the Union (Northern states) and the 11 Southern states that seceded and were organized as the Confederate States of America.
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Gustav Baumgarten House (Saint Louis, Mo.) 1 0
Frederick Ernst Baumgarten House (Saint Louis, Mo.) 1 0
Dwellings 1 0
Bone and Bones

Use for: Bone, Bone Tissue, Bones, Bones and Bone, Bones and Bone Tissue, Bony Apophyses, Bony Apophysis, Condyle

  • Scope Note A specialized CONNECTIVE TISSUE that is the main constituent of the SKELETON. The principal cellular component of bone is comprised of OSTEOBLASTS; OSTEOCYTES; and OSTEOCLASTS, while FIBRILLAR COLLAGENS and hydroxyapatite crystals form the BONE MATRIX.
  • Annotation /cytol: consider also OSTEOBLASTS; OSTEOCLASTS; OSTEOCYTES; /‌embryol: consider also OSTEOGENESIS; /‌surg: consider also OSTEOTOMY or ARTHRODESIS or FRACTURE FIXATION & its specifics; differentiate from SKELETON which is almost never used: restrict SKELETON to bone arrangement as a whole & not for
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Cells

Use for: Cell

  • Scope Note The fundamental, structural, and functional units or subunits of living organisms. They are composed of CYTOPLASM containing various ORGANELLES and a CELL MEMBRANE boundary.
  • Annotation general; prefer specific cell or specific anatomical term or organism with /‌cytol; cell stages = CELL CYCLE
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Cell 0 0
Griffins

Use for: Griffons, Gryphons

  • Merriam-Webster unabridged, via WWW, May 7, 2012 (griffin; also griffon or gryphon: a fabulous animal typically having head, forepart, and wings like those of an eagle but with visible usually erect ears, forelegs like the legs of an eagle, and body, hind legs, and tail like those of a lion; any of various fantastic animals in art that resemble the griffin or are considered to be ancestral or related to the typical griffin)
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Animals, Mythical (1)

Use for: Creatures, Fabled, Fabled creatures, Fabulous animals, Fabulous creatures, Fantastic animals, Fictitious animals, Imaginary animals, Legendary animals, Mythical animals, Zoological mythology

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Geniculate bodies

Use for: Bodies, Geniculate, Corpus geniculatum, Corps géniculés , Corpus Geniculatum Mediale, Geniculate Nucleus, Lateral Geniculate Body, Lateral Geniculate Nucleus, Medial Geniculate Body, Medial Geniculate Complex, Medial Geniculate Nucleus, Metathalamus, Nucleus Geniculatus Lateralis Dorsalis, Nucleus Geniculatus Lateralis Pars Dorsalis

  • Part of the DIENCEPHALON inferior to the caudal end of the dorsal THALAMUS. Includes the lateral geniculate body which relays visual impulses from the OPTIC TRACT to the calcarine cortex, and the medial geniculate body which relays auditory impulses from the lateral lemniscus to the AUDITORY CORTEX.
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