Category: C

  • Cystoscope

    An instrument used for visually examining the internal surface of the urinary bladder. An instrument made of a long tube with a light at the end, used to inspect the inside of the bladder. An instrument for viewing the interior of the urinary bladder. It consists of a narrow tube carrying a small electric lamp…

  • Cystogenics

    The science of dealing with the study of the structure and function of genes and chromosomes.  

  • Cystogenic

    Forming cells.  

  • Cystochromes

    Hemoproteins that contain iron. Their principle biological function is electron and hydrogen transport.  

  • Cystocele

    In women, a hernia protrusion of the urinary bladder through the vaginal wall. Condition, sometimes occurring after childbirth, in which the urinary bladder bulges through the wall of the vagina. Herniation or protrusion of the urinary bladder into the vagina. A protrusion of the bladder into the vagina. A cystocele, which is sometimes called a…

  • Cystic mastitis

    Fibrocystic disease characterized by fluid-filled lesions that are tender and that are related to estrogen stimulation. Mastitis resulting in formation of cysts that give the breast a nodular feeling upon palpation.  

  • Cysticercus

    Encysted intermediate stage of a tape-worm formed in the alternate host. The larva of a tapeworm of the genus Taenia, found in pork, which is enclosed in a cyst. A larval stage of some tapeworms in which the scolex and neck are invaginated into a large fluid-filled cyst. The cysts develop in the muscles or…

  • Cyclert

    A commercial preparation of pemoline.  

  • Cyclothymic personality

    A person characterized by frequently alternating moods of elation and sadness stimulated by internal rather than external events, cyclothymic; cycloid.  

  • Cyclothymic

    A temperament identified by Kretschmer characterized by a person who is jolly, genial, and good-natured but who would fluctuate between elated and depressed moods, schizothymic cyclothymic personality.