| cocoa | A powder prepared from the roasted kernels of the ripe seed of Theobroma cacao (family Sterculiaceae); used in the preparation of cocoa syrup, a flavoring agent. See: cacao. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| cocoa butter | The fat obtained from the wasted seed of Theobroma cacao (family Sterculiaceae); it contains the glycerides of stearic, palmitic, oleic, arichidic, and linoleic acids; used as a base for suppositories and ointments and, in operative dentistry, as a lubricant and protective. Synonym: cacao butter, cocoa butter, cacao oil. Origin: G. Theos, a god, + broma, food (05 Mar 2000) |
| coconsciousness | A splitting of consciousness into two streams. (05 Mar 2000) |
| coconut | A tropical palm tree, cocos nucifera, that yields large, edible hard-shelled fruit from which oil and fibre are also obtained. (12 Dec 1998) |
| coconut sound | A sound like that produced when a cracked coconut is tapped; it is elicited by percussing the skull of a patient with osteitis deformans. (05 Mar 2000) |
| coconversion | The simultaneous correction of two sites on DNA during gene conversion. (05 Mar 2000) |