| CM | California mastitis [test]; calmodulin; capreomycin; carboxymethyl; cardiac murmur; cardiac muscle; ... |
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| CMD | campomelic dysplasia; camptomelic dwarfism; cartilage matrix deficiency; chief medical director; chi... |
| CMG | canine or congenital myasthenia gravis; chopped meat glucose [medium]; cystometrography, cystometrog... |
| CMH | cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic; community mental health [services or program]; congenital malformation... |
| CMK | chloromethyl ketone; congenital multicystic kidney |
| mason's lung | Silicosis occurring in stone masons. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| cavitary lung nodules | <radiology> TB, fungal infection (including Coccidioides), septic pulmonary emboli, metastases, necrobiotic rheumatoid nodules, Wegener's granulomatosis (12 Dec 1998) |
| medial surface of lung | It consists of a vertebral part and a mediastinal part. See: mediastinal surface of lung. Synonym: facies medialis pulmonis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mediastinal part of lung | The part of the medial surface of a lung in contact with the mediastinum. Synonym: pars mediastinalis pulmonis, facies mediastinalis pulmonis, mediastinal part of lung. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mediastinal surface of lung | The part of the medial surface of a lung in contact with the mediastinum. Synonym: pars mediastinalis pulmonis, facies mediastinalis pulmonis, mediastinal part of lung. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cheese worker's lung | Extrinsic allergic alveolitis caused by inhalation of spores of Penicillium casei from moldy cheese. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rheumatoid lung disease | <radiology> Pleural effusion, most common finding, seen mostly in males (although RA more common in females), diffuse interstitial fibrosis, necrobiotic nodules, Caplan syndrome, nodules and pneumoeritis and hypertension (12 Dec 1998) |
| mesentery of lung | The reflection of pleura surrounding the root of the lung (including the pulmonary ligament inferiorly) as parietal pleura becomes continuous with the visceral pleura of the lung. Synonym: mesentery of lung. (05 Mar 2000) |
| right lung segments | <radiology> Upper lobe, apical, posterior, anterior, middle lobe, lateral, medial, lower lobe, superior, medial basal, posterior basal, lateral basal, anterior basal (12 Dec 1998) |
| groove of lung for subclavian artery | <anatomy, artery> A sulcus on the surface of the lung just below the apex, corresponding to the course of the subclavian artery. Synonym: sulcus subclavius. (05 Mar 2000) |
| metastatic cancer to the lung | The spread of cancerous tumours from a distant organ to the lung. Due to the lungs tremendous blood and lymphatic supply it is a frequent site for metastatic cancer. Cancers which commonly metastasize to the lung include osteosarcoma, breast cancer, neuroblastoma, Wilm's tumour and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. (27 Sep 1997) |
| metastatic lung cancer | The spread of cancerous tumours from a distant organ to the lung. Due to the lungs tremendous blood and lymphatic supply it is a frequent site for metastatic cancer. Cancers which commonly metastasize to the lung include osteosarcoma, breast cancer, neuroblastoma, Wilm's tumour and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. (27 Sep 1997) |
| root of lung | All the structures entering or leaving the lung at the hilum, forming a pedicle invested with the pleura; includes the bronchi, pulmonary artery and veins, bronchial arteries and veins, lymphatics, and nerves. Synonym: radix pulmonis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| middle lobe of right lung | It is located anteriorly between the horizontal and oblique fissures and includes lateral and medial bronchopulmonary segments. Synonym: lobus medius pulmonis dextri. (05 Mar 2000) |
| miliary lung infiltrate | <radiology> T tuberculosis / fungal disease, E eosinophilic granuloma, M metastases (thyroid, melanoma, choriocarcinoma, renal cell, breast), P pneumoconiosis, parasites, E embolism of oily contrast, S sarcoid, T tuberous sclerosis (12 Dec 1998) |