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Available at an institution. Many medical or surgical services are available in specialized or tertiary care facilities but not in smaller, rural, or less technologically developed hospitals or clinics.  

The time between the administration of a medication or other form of treatment and the first evidence of its effect.  

Any library of information accessible via linked computers, e.g., via the World Wide Web.  

A graft applied to the surface of a tissue, esp. a bone graft applied to bone.  

The scientific study of dreams.  

Resembling, relating to, or accompanied by dreams.  

Primary alveolar hypoventilation caused by reduced responsiveness of the respiratory center to carbon dioxide.  

A group of RNA viruses that can cause cancer in humans or animals.  

An antigen found on the surface of cancer cells that closely resembles antigens found on nerve cells. Antibodies formed by immune cells against onconeural antigens cause paraneoplastic syndromes.  

The measurement of variations in size of internal organs.