Category: C
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Criminal behavior
Antisocial actions that violate some law. A person manifesting criminal behavior may or may not have a psychiatric condition.
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Criminal action
In law, a proceeding by which a party charged with a crime is brought to trial, convicted, and punished.
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Criminal abortion
Deliberately precipitated abortion. A term pertaining to abortion by persons untrained, unlicensed, who perform the procedure purely for profit. An abortion which is carried out illegally.
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Crime
An act that violates a law.
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Cricothyrotome
A surgical instrument used to make an opening into the trachea through the crico-thyroid membrane.
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Crico-thyroidotomy
An incision into the lower airway through the crico-thyroid membrane.
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Crico-thyroid membrane
The fibrous portion of the larynx.
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Cricoid cartilage
The lowermost of the laryngeal cartilages. Ring-shaped cartilage in the lower part of the larynx. The cartilage, shaped like a signet ring, that forms part of the anterior and lateral walls and most of the posterior wall of the larynx.
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Cricoid
Ring-shaped, cricoid cartilage. Relating to the lowest part of the cartilage of the larynx. A cartilage in the larynx that has a ring-like shape.
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Cribiform hymen
A hymen in which there are three or more openings. A sieve-like covering of the vaginal opening, annular hymen; imperforate hymen.