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  • Curvature of the spine

    An unusual bending of the spine forwards or sideways.  

  • Curvature

    The way in which something bends from a straight line. Outline of a part or structure, especially the spinal column, that is not m a straight line.  

  • Curling’s ulcer

    An ulcer of the duodenum following severe injury to the body. A peptic ulcer that sometimes occurs following severe burns to the body; a form of stress ulcer. Curling’s ulcer is a specific type of stress ulcer that develops in individuals who have experienced severe burns on their skin. This particular ulceration occurs as a…

  • Curie

    A former unit of measurement of radioactivity, replaced by the becquerel. The unit of radioactivity prior to adoption of the becquerel. One curie is defined as 3.7 X 10¹º disintegrations per second. Marie, the Polish-born Fr. chemist, 1867-1934, who discovered the radioactivity of thorium, discovered polonium and radium, and isolated radium from pitchblende. She was…

  • Cure

    A particular way of making someone well or of stopping an illness. In medicine, to treat so as to achieve total disappearance of a disease’s signs and symptoms, restoring the patient to normal health. A temporary halt in the advance of a progressive disease or the spontaneous temporary lessening or disappearance of symptoms (remission) is…

  • Curable

    Able to be cured.  

  • Cupola

    A dome-shaped structure. A piece of cartilage in a semicircular canal which is moved by the fluid in the canal and connects with the vestibular nerve. The small dome at the end of the cochlea.  

  • Cumulative action

    An effect of a drug which is given more often than it can be excreted and so accumulates in the tissues. The toxic effects of a drug produced by repeated administration of small doses at intervals that are not long enough for it to be either broken down or excreted by the body.  

  • Culdoscopy

    An examination of the interior of a woman’s pelvis using a culdoscope. Technique for visually examining the pelvic organs of a woman by insertion of a culdoscope (special instrument) through the vagina; compare laparoscopy. A procedure in which an endoscope is passed through the posterior vaginal wall to permit visualization of the female pelvic structures.…

  • Culdoscope

    An instrument used to inspect the interior of a woman’s pelvis, introduced through the vagina. A tubular instrument with lenses and a light source, used for direct observation of the womb, ovaries, and fallopian tubes (culdoscopy). The instrument is passed through the wall of the vagina behind to the neck of the womb. An endoscope…

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