| research | systematic investigation to establish facts |
| operations research | research designed to determine most efficient way to do something |
| biological research | scientific research conducted by biologists |
| stemell research | research on stem cells and their use in medicine |
| embryonic stemell research | biological research on stem cells derived from embryos and on their use in medicine |
marketing research
market research | research that gathers and analyzes information about the moving of good or services from producer to consumer |
| product research | marketing research that yields information about desired characteristics of the product or service |
| consumer research | marketing research that yields information about the motives and needs of different classes of consumers |
scientific research
research project | research into questions posed by scientific theories and hypotheses |
Air Force Research Laboratory
AFRL | a United States Air Force defense laboratory responsible for discovering and developing and integrating fighting technologies for aerospace forces |
Army High Performance Computing Research Center
AHPCRC | a United States defense laboratory to conduct research in high-performance computing for defense technology applications, a partnership of government and university and industry |
| auxiliary research submarine | a submarine for research purposes |
lab
laboratory
research lab
research laboratory
science lab
science laboratory | a workplace for the conduct of scientific research |
Naval Research Laboratory
NRL | the United States Navy's defense laboratory that conducts basic and applied research for the Navy in a variety of scientific and technical disciplines |
research center
research facility | a center where research is done |
test rocket
research rocket
test instrument vehicle | a rocket fired for test purposes |
inquiry enquiry
research | a search for knowledge, their pottery deserves more research than it has received |
| empirical research | an empirical search for knowledge |
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DARPA | the central research and development organization for the United States Department of Defense, responsible for developing new surveillance technologies since
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Bureau of Intelligence and Research
INR | an agency that is the primary source in the State Department for interpretive analyses of global developments and focal point for policy issues and activities of the Intelligence Community |
| research colloquium | a colloquium at which the results of (scientific) research are reported |
Advanced Research and Development Activity
ARDA | an agency of the Intelligence Community that conducts advanced research and development related to information technology |
| research staff | a group of associated research workers in a university or library or laboratory |
Casualty Care Research Center
CCRC | an agency in the Department of Defense that is a national center for research on all aspects of injury control and casualty care |
research director
director of research | a supervisor in a research center |
research worker
researcher
investigator | a scientist who devotes himself to doing research |
| diabetes | a polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood, any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst |
diabetes mellitus
DM | diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria, when doctors say `diabetes' they usually mean `diabetes mellitus' |
type I diabetes
insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
IDDM
juvenile-onset diabetes
juvenile diabetes
growth-onset diabetes
ketosis-prone diabetes
ketoacidosis-prone diabetes
autoimmune diabetes | severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset, characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis, diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease |
d type II diabetes
non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
NIDDM
non-insulin-dependent diabetes
ketosisesistant diabetes mellitus
ketosisesistant diabetes
ketoacidosisesistant diabetes mellitus
ketoacidosisesistant diabetes
adult-onset diabetes mellitus
adult-onset diabetes
maturity-onset diabetes mellitus
maturity-onset diabetes
mature-onset diabetes | mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults, can be precipitated by obesity or severe stress or menopause or other factors, can usually be controlled by diet and hypoglycemic agents without injections of insulin |
| nephrogenic diabetes insipidus | diabetes insipidus caused by a failure of the kidney to respond to normal levels of vasopressin |
| diabetes insipidus | a rare form of diabetes resulting from a deficiency of vasopressin (the pituitary hormone that regulates the kidneys), characterized by the chronic excretion of large amounts of pale dilute urine which results in dehydration and extreme thirst |
latent diabetes
chemical diabetes | a mild form of diabetes mellitus in which there are no overt symptoms but there are abnormal responses to some diagnostic procedures |
hemochromatosis
iron-storage disease
iron overload
bronzed diabetes | pathology in which iron accumulates in the tissues, characterized by bronzed skin and enlarged liver and diabetes mellitus and abnormalities of the pancreas and the joints |
research
search
explore | inquire into, the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project, He searched for information on his relatives on the web, Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness |
| research | attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner, The student researched the history of that word |