Category: C

  • Clamp connections

    In botany, structures found on basidiomycete mycelium which function at the time of cell division to reestablish the dikaryotic condition.  

  • Clammy

    Damp and unusually cool.  

  • Civil rights movement

    A social movement that sought equal rights for minority groups.  

  • Civil rights

    In law, the freedoms and rights that a person has as a citizen that are protected by law and custom.  

  • Civil commitment

    In law, a procedure whereby a person can be legally certified as mentally ill and hospitalized, even against his or her will.  

  • Civil action

    In law, an action brought to recover some civil right to obtain redress for some wrong.  

  • Citations

    In law, references to law books.  

  • Cis form

    A term indicating that certain atoms or groups of atoms, relative to a double bond between two carbon atoms, are on the same side of a molecule.  

  • Cis configuration

    Configuration involving two pairs of linked genes when dominant alleles are on the same homologue and recessive alleles are on the other.  

  • Circumcision

    Surgical removal of the foreskin of the penis superincision; excision. The surgical removal of the foreskin of the penis. Removal of the foreskin, a loose fold of skin that covers the head, or glans, of the penis; a brief operation generally performed on newborns. Long performed for religious reasons by Jews and Moslems, circumcision became…