Category: C

The unfounded conviction that one’s spouse is unfaithful.  

Joined together as characterized in Siamese twins.  

Evidence that an effect occurred agrees with the explanation advance for the cause-and-effect relationship; a condition strengthening the inference of causation.  

Apartment houses or group accommodations that provide health care and support services to functionally impaired older persons who do not need routine nursing care. A group residence, usually for older persons, which encourages independence and community living. The tenants may need some medical or social assistance, but not enough to require hospitalization or nursing home…

An African term for marijuana.  

A heaviness and aching sensation in the abdomen accompanied by nausea, edema, constipation, headache, backaches, discomfort in the breasts, and psychological uneasiness during menstruation.  

Syphilis resulting in the transmission of the spirochete from the mother to her unborn baby before or during birth. Incorrectly referred to as hereditary syphilis since syphilis is not caused by any genetic anomaly. Syphilis which is passed on from a mother to her unborn child. Congenital syphilis is a form of syphilis diagnosed in…

Infant defects resulting from a women’s infection with the rubella virus during the fist trimester of pregnancy. Transplacental transmission of the rubella virus to a fetus, resulting in spontaneous abortion, stillbirth, or major birth defects of the heart, eyes, or central nervous system, including deafness. Women who become pregnant and have not received rubella immunization…

A congenital defect in which a number of polyps grow in the colon and rectum.  

An unerect penis at birth less than three-quarters of an inch long. This condition may require medical attention.