| FINCC | familial idiopathic nonarteriosclerotic cerebral calcification |
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| IACI | idiopathic arterial calcification of infancy |
| ICBG | idiopathic calcification of basal ganglia |
| SCBG | symmetric calcification of the basal cerebral ganglia |
| STC | serum theophylline concentration; soft tissue calcification; stroke treatment center; subtotal colec... |
| coronary artery calcification | <radiology> In setting of chest pain, upto 94% will have significant coronary artery calcification (12 Dec 1998) |
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| pulp calcification | A calcified body found in the pulp chamber of a tooth; may be composed of irregular dentin (true denticle) or due to ectopic calcification of pulp tissue (false denticle). Synonym: denticle, pulp calcification, pulp calculus, pulp nodule, pulp stone. Origin: endo-+ G. Lithos, stone (05 Mar 2000) |
| spheroid calcification | <radiology> Round/oval subcutaneous calcifications, characteristic of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (12 Dec 1998) |
| diffuse abdominal calcification | <radiology> Ovarian cystadenocarcinoma (psammomatous Calcium), pseudomyxoma peritonei, pseudomucinous cystadenoma of ovary, mucocele of appendix, undifferentiated abdominal malignancy, TB peritonitis, oil granulomata, meconium peritonitis (12 Dec 1998) |
| dystrophic calcification | Calcification occurring in degenerated or necrotic tissue, as in hyalinised scars, degenerated foci in leiomyomas, and caseous nodules. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intra-ocular calcification | <radiology> Retinoblastoma, foreign body, post-inflammatory atrophy of globe, chronic hypercalcaemia, tuberous sclerosis, cataract, Coats disease (congenital vascular anomaly of retina) (12 Dec 1998) |
| eggshell calcification | A thin layer of calcification around an intrathoracic lymph node, usually in silicosis, seen on a chest radiograph. (05 Mar 2000) |
| eggshell lymph node calcification | <radiology> Silicosis, sarcoid, treated Hodgkin's lymphoma (12 Dec 1998) |
| tooth calcification | The process whereby calcium salts are deposited in the dental enamel. The process is normal in the development of bones and teeth. (boucher's clinical dental terminology, 4th ed, p43) (12 Dec 1998) |
| ureteral calcification | <radiology> Calculi, schistosomiasis, TB (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) |