| cabbage goiter | Goiter due to ingestion of cabbage or other goitrogenic foodstuff. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| cabbage tree | The bark of Andira inermis, a leguminous tree of tropical America, used as an emetic, purgative, and anthelmintic. Synonym: cabbage tree, worm bark. Origin: West Indian native name (05 Mar 2000) |
| CABG | A surgical procedure, known as a coronary artery bypass graft, which involves replacing diseased (narrowed) coronary arteries with veins obtained from the patients lower extremities (autologous graft). During this procedure the patient is placed on a heart bypass machine (heart-lung machine) to allow the surgeon adequate time to perform surgery on the resting (nonbeating) heart. This procedure has proven to extend the lives of individuals with coronary artery disease and improve the quality of life. Recovery in the hospital is approximately 7-10 days. (27 Sep 1997) |
| cable graft | A multiple strand nerve graft arranged as a pathway for regeneration of axons. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cable yarding | A term used to describe a means of removing logs from the stump area to a landing or yarding area through use of an overhead system of winch-driven cables to which logs are attached with cables. (05 Dec 1998) |
| Cabot's ring bodies | Ring-shaped or figure-of-eight structures that stain red with Wright's stain, found in red blood cells in severe anaemias, possibly a remnant of the nuclear membrane; a form of basophilic degenerative process. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Cabot, Richard | <person> U.S. Physician, 1868-1939. See: Cabot's ring bodies, Cabot-Locke murmur. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Cabot-Locke murmur | <cardiology, clinical sign> An early diastolic murmur, like that of aortic insufficiency, heard best at the left lower sternal border in severe anaemia. (05 Mar 2000) |