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A measurement of the time needed for FIBRINOLYSIS to occur.

The natural enzymatic dissolution of FIBRIN.

A highly conserved immunoglobulin-like protein domain of about 100 amino acids that forms a beta sandwich structure.

A perceptual phenomenon used by Gestalt psychologists to demonstrate that events in one part of the perceptual field may affect perception in another…

A process of separating particulate matter from a fluid, such as air or a liquid, by passing the fluid carrier through a medium that will not pass th…

A flour made of pulverized, dried fish or fish parts.

Food products manufactured from fish (e.g., FISH FLOUR, fish meal).

Positioning and accommodation of eyes that allows the image to be brought into place on the FOVEA CENTRALIS of each eye.

Substances added to foods and medicine to improve the taste.

The maximum MECHANICAL STRESS that a heterogeneous material, subject to a bending load or flexure, can withstand before fracturing.

The use of wings or wing-like appendages to remain aloft and move through the air.

The aggregation of suspended solids into larger clumps.

Sudden onset water phenomena with different speed of occurrence. These include flash floods, seasonal river floods, and coastal floods, associated wi…

A powdery meal obtained from ground up starchy foodstuff, such as seeds of WHEAT; RICE and other EDIBLE GRAIN; LEGUMES; and NUTS; or ground up PLANT …

Translocation of body fluids from one compartment to another, such as from the vascular to the interstitial compartments. Fluid shifts are associated…

The property of emitting radiation while being irradiated. The radiation emitted is usually of longer wavelength than that incident or absorbed, e.g.…

A type of FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY using two FLUORESCENT DYES with overlapping emission and absorption spectra, which is used to indicate proximity …

A type of elimination diet restricting from foods with fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols, to help determine i…

The degeneration and resorption of an OVARIAN FOLLICLE before it reaches maturity and ruptures.

The period of the MENSTRUAL CYCLE representing follicular growth, increase in ovarian estrogen (ESTROGENS) production, and epithelial proliferation o…

Substances taken in by the body to provide nourishment.

Substances used in the processing or storage of foods or animal feed including ANTIOXIDANTS; FOOD PRESERVATIVES; FOOD COLORING AGENTS; FLAVORING AGEN…

The sequence of transfers of matter and energy from organism to organism in the form of FOOD. Food chains intertwine locally into a food web because …

Substances included in prepared foods and beverages.

The selection of one food over another.

Substances capable of inhibiting, retarding or arresting the process of fermentation, acidification or other deterioration of foods.

The pharmacological result, either desirable or undesirable, of drugs interacting with components of the diet. (From Stedman, 25th ed)

Food and dietary formulations including elemental (chemically defined formula) diets, synthetic and semisynthetic diets, space diets, weight-reductio…

Any food that has been supplemented with essential NUTRIENTS either in quantities that are greater than those normally present, or which are not foun…

Food derived from genetically modified organisms (ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED).