| chemo-responsive | Responds to chemotherapy, for example, a tumour is chemo-responsive if it shrinks in size following chemotherapy. (16 Dec 1997) |
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| chemoattractant | <cell biology> A substance that elicits accumulation of cells. (18 Nov 1997) |
| chemoattraction | Noncommittal description of cellular response to a diffusible chemical not necessarily by a tactic response. Microturable to chemotaxis when the mechanism is unknown. (18 Nov 1997) |
| chemoautotroph | Chemotrophic autotroph. Organism in which energy is obtained from endogenous light independent reactions involving inorganic molecules. (18 Nov 1997) |
| chemoautotrophic | Pertaining to a chemoautotroph. Synonym: chemolithotrophic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chemobiodynamics | Study devoted to elucidation of correlations between the chemical constitution of various materials and their ability to modify the function and morphology of biological systems. Origin: chemo-+ G. Bios, life, + dynamis, power (05 Mar 2000) |
| chemocautery | Any substance that destroys tissue upon application. Synonym: chemical cautery, chemicocautery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chemoceptor | A receptor adapted for excitation by chemical substances, for example, olfactory and gustatory receptors or a sense organ, as the carotid body or the aortic (supracardial) bodies, which is sensitive to chemical changes in the blood stream, especially reduced oxygen content and reflexly increases both respiration and blood pressure. See: receptor. (18 Nov 1997) |
| chemodectoma | Aortic body, carotid body, chemoreceptor, or glomus jugulare tumour; nonchromaffin paraganglioma; receptoma; a relatively rare, usually benign neoplasm originating in the chemoreceptor tissue of the carotid body, glomus jugulare, and aortic bodies; consisting histologically of rounded or ovoid hyperchromatic cells that tend to be grouped in an alveolus-like pattern within a scant to moderate amount of fibrous stroma and a few large thin-walled vascular channels. Compare: paraganglioma. Synonym: aortic body tumour, carotid body tumour, chemoreceptor tumour, glomus jugulare tumour, nonchromaffin paraganglioma. Origin: chemo-+ G. Dektes, receiver, fr. Dechomai, to receive, + -oma, tumour (05 Mar 2000) |
| chemodectomatosis | Multiple tumours of perivascular tissue of carotid body or presumed chemoreceptor type, which have been reported in the lungs as minute neoplasms. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chemodifferentiation | Differentiation of the cellular chemical constituents in the embryo prior to cytodifferentiation; sometimes recognizable histochemically. Synonym: invisible differentiation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chemodynesis | Induction of cytoplasmic streaming in plant cells by chemicals rather than by light (photodynesis). (18 Nov 1997) |
| chemoembolization, therapeutic | Administration of antineoplastic agent together with an embolizing vehicle. This allows slow release of the agent as well as obstruction of the blood supply to the neoplasm. (12 Dec 1998) |
| chemoheterotroph | Synonym: chemoorganotroph. Origin: chem-+ G. Heteros, other, + trophe, nourishment (05 Mar 2000) |
| chemoheterotrophic | Pertaining to a chemoorganotroph. Synonym: chemoheterotrophic. (05 Mar 2000) |