| CA-125 | <protein, tumour marker> A protein which can be found in the blood, it is useful for detecting and evaluating ovarian cancer. Carbohydrate antigen most commonly seen in tumours of the ovary and occasionally seen in breast, kidney, and gastrointestinal tract tumours and normal tissue. CA-125 is clearly tumour-associated but not tumour-specific. (12 Jul 2000) |
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| caapi | A hallucinogenic preparation obtained from Banisteria caapi (family Malpighaceae), a South American jungle vine; contains harmine and other psychotomimetic principles. Synonym: ayahuasca. (05 Mar 2000) |
| CAAT box | <molecular biology> Nucleotide sequence in many eukaryotic promoters usually about 75bp upstream of the start of transcription. Binds NF1. (18 Nov 1997) |
| cabbage goiter | Goiter due to ingestion of cabbage or other goitrogenic foodstuff. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cabbage tree | The bark of Andira inermis, a leguminous tree of tropical America, used as an emetic, purgative, and anthelmintic. Synonym: cabbage tree, worm bark. Origin: West Indian native name (05 Mar 2000) |
| CABG | A surgical procedure, known as a coronary artery bypass graft, which involves replacing diseased (narrowed) coronary arteries with veins obtained from the patients lower extremities (autologous graft). During this procedure the patient is placed on a heart bypass machine (heart-lung machine) to allow the surgeon adequate time to perform surgery on the resting (nonbeating) heart. This procedure has proven to extend the lives of individuals with coronary artery disease and improve the quality of life. Recovery in the hospital is approximately 7-10 days. (27 Sep 1997) |
| cable graft | A multiple strand nerve graft arranged as a pathway for regeneration of axons. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cable yarding | A term used to describe a means of removing logs from the stump area to a landing or yarding area through use of an overhead system of winch-driven cables to which logs are attached with cables. (05 Dec 1998) |
| Cabot's ring bodies | Ring-shaped or figure-of-eight structures that stain red with Wright's stain, found in red blood cells in severe anaemias, possibly a remnant of the nuclear membrane; a form of basophilic degenerative process. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Cabot, Richard | <person> U.S. Physician, 1868-1939. See: Cabot's ring bodies, Cabot-Locke murmur. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Cabot-Locke murmur | <cardiology, clinical sign> An early diastolic murmur, like that of aortic insufficiency, heard best at the left lower sternal border in severe anaemia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cacao | A tree of the family sterculiaceae (or byttneriaceae), usually theobroma cacao, or its seeds, which after fermentation and roasting, yield cocoa and chocolate. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cacao oil | The fat obtained from the wasted seed of Theobroma cacao (family Sterculiaceae); it contains the glycerides of stearic, palmitic, oleic, arichidic, and linoleic acids; used as a base for suppositories and ointments and, in operative dentistry, as a lubricant and protective. Synonym: cacao butter, cocoa butter, cacao oil. Origin: G. Theos, a god, + broma, food (05 Mar 2000) |
| CaCC | <abbreviation> Cathodal closure contraction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Cacchione, Aldo | <person> 20th century Italian psychiatrist. See: De Sanctis-Cacchione syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |