Category: C

Cardiac ischemia that presents with nausea, bloating, indigestion, or other upper abdominal symptoms.  

A hereditary disease marked by ocular hypertelorism, exophthalmos, strabismus, widening of the skull, high forehead, beaked nose, and hypoplasia of the maxilla.  

The automated design and testing of new chemical compounds for therapeutic use. Commonly, CADD involves using computerized algorithms to build molecules with specific sizes, shapes, or combining characteristics and assessing the biological activity of the molecules in various solutions.  

Any drug that has been adulterated, contaminated, diluted, or falsely labeled.  

A medication used to treat acute, life-threatening emergencies including dysrhythmias, cardiac arrest, pulmonary edema, and shock. Code drugs include atropine, epinephrine, morphine, and vasopressin.  

A bacterial culture in a drop of culture medium.  

A sterile tube draining a body site, such as the abdominal cavity or pleural space, that is designed to prevent the entry of air and bacteria into the tubing or the area being drained.  

Drainage of a wound or body space into a self-contained, sealed collecting system.  

Placement of a drainage tube in the chest cavity, usually in the pleural space. The tube is used to drain air, fluid, or blood from the pleural space so the compressed and collapsed lung can expand. The tube is connected to a system that produces suction. This helps to remove the material from the pleural…

Drainage by means of capillary attraction.