Category: C
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Caruncula hymenales
Small irregular nodules representing remains of the hymen.
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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.
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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.
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Carrier-free
Not attached to a carrier; said of radioactive isotopes.
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Carriage
The harboring, holding, or transporting of a chemical, gene, infection, or other material.
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Carphologia
Involuntary picking at bedclothes, seen especially in febrile delirium.
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Carpectomy
Excision of the carpus or a portion of it.
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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.
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Carotenase
An enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of beta-carotene to retinaldehyde.
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Carnosity
An excrescence resembling flesh; a fleshy growth.