Category: C

Any one of a group of antibodies to various bacteria in the feces. They are of the IgA type. Their ability to protect the host has not been shown. An erotic satisfaction at the sight or odor of excreta.  

The vomiting of fecal material.  

A poisonous snake, Agkistrodon contortrix, common in the southern, eastern, and central U.S.  

A state in which a usually supportive primary person (family member or close friend [significant other]) provides insufficient, ineffective, or compromised support, comfort, assistance, or encouragement that may be needed by the patient to manage or master adaptive tasks related to the his or her health challenge.  

Supportive fibrous structures throughout the breast that partially sheathe the lobes shaping the breast. These ligaments affect the image of the glandular tissue on a mammogram.  

Anazolene sodium, a stain used to demonstrate proteins, e.g., in protein electrophoretic gels.  

A kind of hot-cathode tube that is so highly exhausted that the residual gas plays no part in the production of the cathode stream, and that is regulated by variable heating of the cathode filament. Wm. D. Coolidge, in 1913, ingeniously crafted a cutting-edge x-ray tube known as the hot cathode variant. This remarkable invention…

A convulsion with intermittent contractions, the muscles being alternately contracted and relaxed. Within the realm of neurological disturbances, clonic convulsions emerge as a manifestation of seizure activity characterized by uncontrollable and spasmodic jerking motions of the limbs and body. These convulsive episodes, akin to clonus, often manifest as a telltale sign of specific forms of…

One of two small convolutions on the lower surface of the temporal lobe.  

A scientific study of two or more treatments that tries to gauge the effect of switching from one form of therapy to another.