| popliteal pterygium syndrome | <syndrome> An inherited condition with a web behind the knee. (a pterygium is a winglike triangular membrane.) (12 Dec 1998) |
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| pterygium | Origin: NL, fr. Gr, properly a dim, akin to a feather. <medicine> A superficial growth of vascular tissue radiating in a fanlike manner from the cornea over the surface of the eye. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pterygium colli | A congenital, usually bilateral, web or tight band of skin of the neck extending from the acromion to the mastoid seen in Turner's syndrome and Noonan's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pterygium syndrome | <syndrome> Webbing of the neck, antecubital fossae, and popliteal fossae with flexion deformities of the extremities and anomalies of the vertebrae; observed in pseudo-Turner's syndrome and Turner's syndrome; mendelian inheritance of all those kinds. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pterygium unguis | Origin: NL, fr. Gr, properly a dim, akin to a feather. <medicine> A superficial growth of vascular tissue radiating in a fanlike manner from the cornea over the surface of the eye. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| syndrome, popliteal pterygium | An inherited condition with a web behind the knee. (a pterygium is a winglike triangular membrane.) (12 Dec 1998) |
| radial scar | A variant of sclerosing adenosis of the breast with central scar formation and radiating hyperplastic ducts. Synonym: radial scar. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cheloid scar | An overgrowth of scar tissue that can result in cosmetic deformity. (27 Sep 1997) |
| scar | To mark with a scar or scars. "Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow." (Shak) "His cheeks were deeply scarred." (Macaulay) Origin: Scarred; Scarring. 1. A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement. "This earth had the beauty of youth, . . . And not a wrinkle, scar, or fracture on all its body." (T. Burnet) 2. <botany> A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. Origin: OF. Escare, F. Eschare an eschar, a dry slough (cf. It. & Sp. Escara), L. Eschara, fr. Gr. Hearth, fireplace, scab, eschar. Cf. Eschar. <zoology> A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish. Origin: L. Scarus, a kind of fish, Gr. Skaros. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scar cancer | <tumour> Carcinoma of the lung, usually adenocarcinoma, arising from a peripheral lung scar or associated with interstitial fibrosis in a honeycomb lung. Synonym: scar cancer. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scar cancer of the lungs | A pulmonary cancer intimately related to a localised area of parenchymal fibrosis; the cancer probably induces the fibrosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scar carcinoma | <tumour> Carcinoma of the lung, usually adenocarcinoma, arising from a peripheral lung scar or associated with interstitial fibrosis in a honeycomb lung. Synonym: scar cancer. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hypertrophic scar | An elevated scar resembling a keloid but which does not spread into surrounding tissues, is rarely painful, and regresses spontaneously; collagen bundles run parallel to the skin surface. (05 Mar 2000) |