Category: C

A catheter inserted into a central vein or artery for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.  

Catgut treated with chromium trioxide. This enhances the strength of the suture material and delays its absorption.  

To protozoan colonies whose individuals are joined end to end.  

To a disease that is linked with another.  

The increased excitability produced in a nerve or muscle in the region near the cathode during the passage of an electric current.  

A condition in which both eyes are turned downward.  

A condition in which the pulse shows a third impulse in the descending stroke of a pulse tracing.  

Manifesting a third impulse in the descending stroke of the sphygmogram of the pulse.  

Exaggerated focus on perceived failures in one’s past, present, or future; associated with mood disorders, especially depression, and chronic pain.  

The tendency of visual axes to incline below the horizontal plane. The state where the line of sight for each eye tends to angle downward, deviating from a horizontal level.