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• Pathological conditions involving the CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM including the HEART; the BLOOD VESSELS; or the PERICARDIUM.

Use for: Cardiac Diseases , Cardiac Disorders , Heart Disorders

• Pathological conditions involving the HEART including its structural and functional abnormalities.

• Pathological processes involving any of the BLOOD VESSELS in the cardiac or peripheral circulation. They include diseases of ARTERIES; VEINS; and rest of the vasculature system in the body.

Use for: Varices, Varix

• Enlarged and tortuous VEINS.

Use for: Environmental Pollutants, Noxae, and Pesticides , Toxic Action

• A broad category of chemical actions with harmful or deadly effect on living organisms.

Use for: Environmental Pollutant , Pollutant, Pollutants, Pollutants, Environmental

• Substances or energies, for example heat or light, which when introduced into the air, water, or land threaten life or health of individuals or ECOSYSTEMS.

Use for: Fire Retardant , Fire Retardants , Fireproofing Agent , Fireproofing Agents , Flame Retardant

• Materials applied to fabrics, bedding, furniture, plastics, etc. to retard their burning; many may leach out and cause allergies or other harm.

• Substances used in biomedicine or dentistry predominantly for their physical, as opposed to chemical, properties.

• Compounds formed by the joining of smaller, usually repeating, units linked by covalent bonds. These compounds often form large macromolecules (e.g., BIOPOLYMERS; PLASTICS).

Use for: Polystyrol

• Polymerized forms of styrene used as a biocompatible material, especially in dentistry. They are thermoplastic and are used as insulators, for injection molding and casting, as sheets, plates, rods, rigid forms and beads.

• Amino acids and chains of amino acids connected by peptide linkages.

Use for: Growth Factor, Growth Factors, Paracrine Peptide Factors, Paracrine Protein Factors

• Regulatory proteins and peptides that are signaling molecules involved in the process of PARACRINE COMMUNICATION. They are generally considered factors that are expressed by one cell and are responded to by receptors on another nearby cell. They are distinguished from HORMONES in that their actions are local rather than distal.

Use for: Adipocytokine, Adipocytokines, Adipokine

• Polypeptides produced by the ADIPOCYTES. They include LEPTIN; ADIPONECTIN; RESISTIN; and many cytokines of the immune system, such as TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN-6; and COMPLEMENT FACTOR D (also known as ADIPSIN). They have potent autocrine, paracrine, and endocrine functions.

Use for: Bank, Biological Specimen , Bank, Biological Substance , Banks, Biological Specimen , Banks, Biological Substance , Biological Specimen Bank , Biological Substance Bank , Biological Substance Banks, Specimen Bank, Biological , Specimen Banks, Biological , Substance Bank, Biological , Substance Banks, Biological

• Facilities that collect, store, and distribute tissues, e.g., cell lines, microorganisms, blood, sperm, milk, breast tissue, for use by others. Other uses may include transplantation and comparison of diseased tissues in the identification of cancer.

Use for: Blood Banking

• Centers for collecting, characterizing and storing blood or plasma.

Use for: Private Rooms , Rooms, Patient , Semi-Private Rooms , Wards, General

• Rooms occupied by one or more individuals during a stay in a health facility. The concept includes aspects of environment, design, care, or economics.

Use for: Ambulatory Care Facilities, Hospital , Hospital Outpatient Clinics

Use for: Hospital Nursing Service, Service, Hospital Nursing

• The hospital department which is responsible for the organization and administration of nursing activities.

Use for: Hospital Occupational Therapy Department, Occupational Therapy Departments, Hospital

• Hospital department responsible for the administration and provision of any occupational or work activity for remedial purposes.