| CL | capillary lumen; cardiolipin; cell line; centralis lateralis; chemiluminescence; chest and left arm ... |
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| Cl | chloride; chlorine; clavicle; clear; clinic; Clostridium; closure; colistin |
| cl | centiliter; clarified; clean; clear; cleft; clinic; clinical; clonus; clotting; cloudy |
| JP drain | The original suction drain. The drain itself is inside the body. It is made of Teflon and has multip... |
| CBS | Clear breathing sounds |
| clear cell hidradenoma | <tumour> A tumour derived from eccrine sweat glands, composed of glycogen-rich clear cells. Synonym: eccrine acrospiroma, nodular hidradenoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| clear layer of epidermis | A layer of lightly staining corneocytes in the deepest level of the stratum corneum; found primarily in the thick epidermis of the palmar and plantar skin. Synonym: clear layer of epidermis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| clear liquid diet | A diet, often used postoperatively, consisting usually of water, tea, coffee, gelatin preparations, and clear soups or broth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| water-clear cell of parathyroid | A variety of chief cell, so-called because the cytoplasm contains much glycogen that is not preserved or stained in the usual preparation. Synonym: wasserhelle cell. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sarcoma, clear cell | A sarcoma of young, often female, adults of the lower extremities and acral regions, intimately bound to tendons as circumscribed but unencapsulated melanin-bearing tumours of neuroectodermal origin. An ultrastructural finding simulates flattened and curved barrel staves, corresponding to the internal structures of premelanosomes. There is a 45-60% mortality in clear cell sarcoma. (12 Dec 1998) |
| vitelline layer of egg | <zoology> The membrane, usually of protein fibres, immediately outside the plasmalemma of the ovum and the earlier stages of the developing embryo. Its structure and composition vary in differing animal groups. (18 Nov 1997) |
| centrolecithal egg | An egg in which the yolk is concentrated near the centre of the egg cell, as is the case in many of the insects. (05 Mar 2000) |
| microlecithal egg | An egg containing a small amount of deutoplasm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mosaic egg | <biology> At one time a distinction was drawn between those organisms in which the egg seemed to have a firmly committed fate map built in and regulating embryos. In the former, after the first cleavage one blastomere was committed to produce one set of tissues, the other blastomere a different set and removal of one blastomere led to the production of an incomplete embryo. This was particularly obvious in mollusc development where one blastomere had the polar lobe material. This early differentiation (or determination) of blastomeres for particular fates was in distinction to regulating embryos in which the removal of one blastomere did not matter, the other blastomere compensating and producing a full set of tissues. The distinction is, however, only based upon the timing of differentiative events and within a few divisions the regulating embryo also becomes a mosaic of determined cells. (18 Nov 1997) |
| primary egg membrane | See: egg membrane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| high-egg-passage vaccine | Living Flury strain rabies virus at the 180th to 190th level egg passage (embryonate eggs), used for vaccination of cattle and cats, low-egg-passage (LEP) vaccine: at the 40th to 50th passage level, containing 103 to 104 mouse LD50; nonpathogenic in dogs but retains some pathogenicity for cattle and cats. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sea egg | <zoology> A sea urchin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| secondary egg membrane | See: egg membrane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| homolecithal egg | An egg in which the total amount of yolk is small and fairly uniformly distributed throughout the cytoplasm. Synonym: isolecithal egg. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dorset's culture egg medium | A medium for cultivating Mycobacterium tuberculosis; it consists of the whites and yolks of four fresh eggs and a solution of sodium chloride. (05 Mar 2000) |