| coil | 1. A spiral or series of loops. 2. An object made of wire wound in a spiral configuration, used in electronic applications, or a loop of wire used as an antenna. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| coil gland | A gland whose secretory part is convoluted. Synonym: convoluted gland. (05 Mar 2000) |
| coiled artery of the uterus | <anatomy, artery> One of the corkscrew-like artery's in premenstrual or progestational endometrium. Synonym: coiled artery of the uterus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| coin lesion of lungs | A solitary, round, circumscribed shadow found in the lung on chest radiograph; causes include granuloma, primary or metastatic carcinoma, benign tumour, vascular malformation. Synonym: coin lesion of lungs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| coin lesion, pulmonary | Solitary, round, circumscribed shadows found in the lungs in X-ray examinations. Common causes are tuberculosis, neoplasms, cysts, or vascular anomalies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| coin test | In cases of a large pulmonary cavity or of pneumothorax, a clear metallic sound obtained by striking a coin, held against the chest, by another coin, or by flicking the chest wall with one's fingernail; the sound is heard on auscultating the chest wall on the same side anteroposteriorly. Synonym: anvil sound, bell sound, coin test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| coin-counting | A sliding movement of the tips of the thumb and index finger, occurring in paralysis agitans. (05 Mar 2000) |
| coincidental evolution | <molecular biology> The tendency for the same mutation to arise simultaneously in all copies of a gene which has been duplicated. (09 Oct 1997) |
| coinosite | A facultative commensal organism; one that can sustain itself apart from its usual host. Synonym: coinosite. Origin: G. Koinos, common, + sitos, food (05 Mar 2000) |
| coinsurance | A provision by which the insured individual shares in the cost of certain expenses. The same as copayment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cointegrate | <molecular biology> The name for the intermediate biomolecule to which donor DNA and target DNA covalently attatch during the migration of some DNA transposons. A small piece of DNA (called a transposon) at one site in a genome or a plasmid makes a copy of itself at a random other site, sometimes removing itself from the first site and sometimes not. The structure is composed of the first site and the new site attached together while the transposon is copying. (09 Oct 1997) |
| cointegrate structure | A structure of DNA produced by the fusion of two replicons, one possessing a transposon. (05 Mar 2000) |
| coital | Pertaining to coitus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Coiter's muscle | <anatomy, muscle> Origin, from orbital portion of musculus orbicularis oculi and nasal prominence; insertion, skin of eyebrow; action, draws medial end of eyebrow downward and wrinkles forehead vertically; nerve supply, facial. Synonym: musculus corrugator supercilii, Coiter's muscle, corrugator muscle, wrinkler muscle of eyebrow. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Coiter, Volcher | <person> Dutch surgeon and anatomist, 1534-1600. See: Coiter's muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |