Category: C

  • Caruncula hymenales

    Small irregular nodules representing remains of the hymen.  

  • Cuneiform cartilage

    One of two small pieces of elastic cartilage that lie in the aryepiglottic fold of the larynx immediately anterior to the arytenoid cartilage.  

  • Carry-over

    The portion of analyte brought from one reaction segment to the next. The accuracy of laboratory test results may be altered by contaminants that are transferred from one reaction to the following one.  

  • Carrier-free

    Not attached to a carrier; said of radioactive isotopes.  

  • Carriage

    The harboring, holding, or transporting of a chemical, gene, infection, or other material.  

  • Carphologia

    Involuntary picking at bedclothes, seen especially in febrile delirium.  

  • Carpectomy

    Excision of the carpus or a portion of it.  

  • Carotidynia,

    Pain in the face, neck, or jaw. It may be produced in persons with atypical facial neuralgia by pressure on the common carotid artery. The pain is dull and referred to the same side to which pressure was applied. Treatment is with analgesics.  

  • Carotenase

    An enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of beta-carotene to retinaldehyde.  

  • Carnosity

    An excrescence resembling flesh; a fleshy growth.