| Ci | <abbreviation> Curie. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Ciaccio's glands | Small, compound, branched, tubular glands located in the middle part of the lid (Wolfring's glands, 1872, or Ciaccio's glands, 1874) and along the superior and inferior fornices of the conjunctival sac (Krause's glands, 1854). These accessory glands are just scattered scraps of lacrimal gland tissue; all of them produce the same kind of tears and debouch on to the conjunctival surface. Henle's and Baumgarten's "glands" are in fact not glands at all, but mere epithelial invaginations. Synonym: glandulae lacrimales accessoriae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ciaccio's stain | <technique> A method for demonstrating complex insoluble intra-cellular lipids using fixation in a formalin-dichromate solution, embedding in paraffin, staining with Sudan III or IV, and examination in aqueous mountant. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ciaccio, Carmelo | <person> Italian pathologist, 1877-1956. See: Ciaccio's stain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ciaccio, Giuseppe | <person> Italian anatomist, 1824-1901. See: Ciaccio's glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cialit | <chemical> Ethylmercury(2-mercapto-5-benzoxazolecarboxylic acid)sodium salt. Tissue preservative. Chemical name: Mercurate(1-), (2,3-dihydro-2-thioxo-5-benzoxazolecarboxylato(2-)-S)ethyl-, sodium (12 Dec 1998) |
| cibophobia | <psychology> Fear of eating, or loathing for, food. Origin: L. Cibus, food, + G. Phobos, fear (05 Mar 2000) |
| cicatrectomy | Excision of a scar. Origin: L. Cicatrix, scar, + G. Ektome, excision (05 Mar 2000) |
| cicatrices | The pleural of cicatrix. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cicatricial | Relating to a scar. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cicatricial conjunctivitis | A chronic progressive ocular affection that produces scarring of the conjunctiva primarily and of the cornea sequentially. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cicatricial ectropion | Ectropion of the eyelids after burns, lacerations, or skin infection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cicatricial entropion | Entropion that follows scarring of the palpebral conjunctiva. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cicatricial horn | A keratinous horn projecting outward from a scar. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cicatricial pemphigoid | A chronic disease that produces adhesions and progressive cicatrization and shrinkage of the conjunctival, oral, and vaginal mucous membranes. Synonym: benign mucosal pemphigoid. (05 Mar 2000) |