| anterior cardinal veins | See: cardinal veins. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| cardinal | Chief or principal;in embryology, relating to the main venous drainage. Origin: L. Cardinalis, principal (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardinal ligament | <anatomy> A fibrous band attached to the uterine cervix and the vault of the lateral fornix of the vagina; continuous with the tissue ensheathing the pelvic vessels. Synonym: cervical ligament of uterus, ligamentum transversale colli, Mackenrodt's ligament. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardinal ocular movements | Eye rotations to the right and left, upward to the right and left, and downward to the right and left, to diagnose positions of gaze. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardinal points | The four point's in the pelvic inlet toward one of which the occiput of the baby is usually directed in case of head presentation: two sacroiliac articulations and the two iliopectineal eminences corresponding to the acetabula, six point's of a compound optical system: the anterior focal point, the posterior focal point, the two principal point's, and the two nodal point's. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardinal veins | The major systemic venous channels in adult primitive vertebrates and in the embryos of higher vertebrates; the anterior cardinal veins are the major drainage channels from the cephalic part of the body, and the (05 Mar 2000) |
| posterior cardinal veins | From the caudal part; the common cardinal veins, formed by the anastomosis of the anterior and posterior cardinal vein's, are the main systemic return channels to the heart; in the older literature, sometimes called Cuvier's ducts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| levoatrio-cardinal vein | <anatomy, vein> The communication of a systemic vein with the left atrium, other than a left superior vena cava or coronary sinus; may be the right superior vena cava. (05 Mar 2000) |
| accessory symptom | A symptom that usually but not always accompanies a certain disease, as distinguished from a pathognomonic symptom. Synonym: assident symptom, concomitant symptom. (05 Mar 2000) |
| accidental symptom | Any morbid phenomenon coincidentally occurring in the course of a disease, but having no relation with it. (05 Mar 2000) |
| assident symptom | A symptom that usually but not always accompanies a certain disease, as distinguished from a pathognomonic symptom. Synonym: assident symptom, concomitant symptom. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Baumes symptom | Pain behind the sternum in angina pectoris. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bezold's symptom | Inflammatory oedema at the tip of the mastoid process in mastoiditis. Synonym: Bezold's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bolognini's symptom | A feeling of crepitation on gradually increasing pressure on the abdomen in cases of measles. Cardinal symptom, the primary or major symptom of diagnostic importance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Macewen's symptom | <clinical sign> Percussion of the skull gives a cracked-pot sound in cases of hydrocephalus. Synonym: Macewen's symptom. (05 Mar 2000) |