Category: C

Surgical puncture of the colon to relieve distention.  

Surgical joining of the colon to the cecum.  

The consistent presence of two molecules at a single cellular site, as evidenced by digital or fluorescent imaging techniques.  

Silver particles suspended in liquid. It is marketed as a dietary supplement. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has determined that this product has no safe or effective use. Silver preparations in which the particles of silver or silver proteinate are suspended in the solution rather than being dissolved in it.  

To a liquid and excessive discharge, as a colliquative diarrhea.  

Abnormal discharge of a body fluid.  

An oval enlargement on the crista urethralis, an elevation in the floor of the prostatic portion of the urethra. On its sides are the openings of the ejaculatory ducts and numerous ducts of the prostate gland.  

Inflammation of the colliculus seminalis.  

Soluble, collagen-like proteins secreted into the blood of animals. They bind carbohydrate and fatty molecules on the surface of disease-causing microorganisms and help the body agglutinate, neutralize, or opsonize them so that they may be consumed and destroyed by white blood cells. Collectins are one component of the innate immune system.  

A plasma protein that binds carbohydrate molecules in the cell walls of microorganisms and facilitates phagocytosis.