| canalicular | Relating to a canaliculus. Origin: L. Canaliculus, small channel, dim. Fr. Canalis, canal, + suffix -ar, pertaining to (05 Mar 2000) |
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| canalicular adenoma | <tumour> A variant of monomorphic adenoma composed of double rows of epithelial cells in long cords. (05 Mar 2000) |
| canalicular ducts | The ducts, numbering 15 or 20, which drain the lobes of the mammary gland; they open at the nipple. Synonym: ductus lactiferi, canalicular ducts, galactophore, galactophorous canals, galactophorous ducts, mamillary ducts, mammary ducts, milk ducts, tubuli galactophori, tubuli lactiferi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| canalicular sphincter | A sphincter located somewhere along the course of an organ, a tube, or a duct, as opposed to ostial sphincter. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aortoannular ectasia | annuloaortic ectasia |
| mammary duct ectasia | A noncancerous breast disease most often found in women during menopause. The ducts in or beneath the nipple become clogged with cellular and fatty debris. The duct may have gray to greenish discharge, a lump you can feel and can become inflamed, causing pain. (09 Oct 1997) |
| corneal ectasia | A bulging forward of the cornea. Synonym: corneal ectasia, keratectasia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scleral ectasia | Localised bulging of the sclera. Synonym: scleral ectasia. Origin: scler-+ G. Ektasis, an extension (05 Mar 2000) |
| senile ectasia | An obsolete term for senile haemangioma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hypostatic ectasia | Dilation of a blood vessel, usually a vein, in a dependent portion of the body, as in varicose veins of the leg. Mammary duct ectasia, dilation of mammary ducts by lipid and cellular debris in older women; rupture of ducts may result in granulomatous inflammation and infiltration by plasma cells. See: plasma cell mastitis. Papillary ectasia, obsolete term for senile haemangioma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| diffuse arterial ectasia | Spontaneous enlargement with dilation of the vessels in a circumscribed area. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ectasia | <medicine> A dilatation of a hollow organ or of a canal. Origin: NL. See Ectasis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ectasia cordis | Dilation of the heart. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ectasia ventriculi paradoxa | A condition in which there is a central constriction of the wall of the stomach dividing it into two cavities, cardiac and pyloric. Synonym: bilocular stomach, ectasia ventriculi paradoxa. Leather-bottle stomach, marked thickening and rigidity of the stomach wall, with reduced capacity of the lumen although often without obstruction; nearly always due to scirrhous carcinoma, as in linitis plastica. Synonym: sclerotic stomach. (05 Mar 2000) |
| familial aortic ectasia | <cardiology, syndrome> The concurrence as an autosomal dominant trait of bicuspid aortic valve often with premature calcification, ectasia and dissection of the aorta and, rarely, coarctation of the aorta. Superficially resembles the Marfan's syndrome. Synonym: familial aortic ectasia. (05 Mar 2000) |