| chorioretinitis | <pathology> Inflammation of the choroid and retina. (27 Sep 1997) |
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| chorioretinopathy | A primary abnormality of the choroid with extension to the retina. See: choroidopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| choriovitelline placenta | A placenta (seen in some lower animals) in which the chorion is formed by the fusion of yolk-sac mesoderm and vessels to the inner face of the serosa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| choripetalous | <botany> Polypetalous, having unconnected or separate petals. (09 Oct 1997) |
| chorismate mutase | <enzyme> An isomerase that catalyses the conversion of chorismic acid to prephenic acid. Chemical name: Chorismate pyruvatemutase Registry number: EC 5.4.99.5 (12 Dec 1998) |
| chorismate pyruvate-lyase | <enzyme> Forms 4-hydroxybenzoic acid for ubiquinone biosynthesis; chorismate pyruvate-lyase (amino-accepting) is anthranilate synthase Registry number: EC 4.1.3.- Synonym: ubic gene product, chorismate lyase (26 Jun 1999) |
| chorismate synthase-flavin reductase | <chemical> Bifunctional enzyme from neurospora crassa Synonym: cs-fr enzyme (26 Jun 1999) |
| chorismic acid | <chemical> Trans-3[1-carboxyvinyl-oxy]-4-hydroxy-1,5-cyclohexadiene-1-carboxylic acid. Chemical name: 1,5-Cyclohexadiene-1-carboxylic acid, 3-((1-carboxyethenyl)oxy)-4-hydroxy-, (3R-trans)- (12 Dec 1998) |
| chorista | A focus of tissue that is histologically normal per se, but is not normally found in the organ or structure in which it is located; e.g., tissue displaced, during development, from its normal site. Compare: choristoma. Origin: G. Choristos, separated (05 Mar 2000) |
| choristoblastoma | <tumour> An autonomous neoplasm composed of relatively undifferentiated cells of a choristoma. Origin: choristoma + blastoma (05 Mar 2000) |
| choristoma | <radiology> Microscopically normal cells or tissues in abnormal locations (Robbins and Cotran, p. 587f), adrenal choristoma = myelolipoma (12 Dec 1998) |