| cleidocranial d. |
a rare autosomal dominant condition in which there is defective ossification of the cranial bones, with large fontanels and delayed closing of the sutures; complete or partial absence of the clavicles, so that the shoulders may be brought together, or nearly together, in front; wide pubic symphysis; short middle phalanges of the fifth fingers; and dental and vertebral anomalies. Called also cleidocranial dysplasia.
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| cleidohyoid m. |
a slip of muscle sometimes seen augmenting the sternohyoid muscle, extending from the hyoid bone to the clavicle.
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| cleidoic o. |
one (such as the ovum or egg of a reptile, bird, or primitive mammal) that has within itself enough nutritive material for production of a complete embryo, needing to absorb nothing from its environment except oxygen. Except for oxygen intake, it can develop, at the expense of the substances stored inside the oocyte itself, directly into miniature adults without passing through a larval stage
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| cleidomastoid |
pertaining to the clavicle and the mastoid process.
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| cleidotomy |
surgical division of the clavicle of the fetus in difficult labor, to facilitate passage of the shoulders through the birth canal.
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