| Corner, Edred | <person> English surgeon, 1873-1950. See: Corner's tampon. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Corner, George | <person> U.S. Anatomist, 1889-1981. See: Corner-Allen test, Corner-Allen unit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Corner-Allen test | A test for progestational activity; adult female rabbits are mated during estrus and spayed 18 hours later; the test substance is injected subcutaneously on 5 successive days; the minimal amount required to produce complete progestational proliferation of the endometrium is taken as a unit, equivalent to 1.25 mg of progesterone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Corner-Allen unit | A unit of progestational activity, measured in rabbits; the minimum dose which, divided into five equal daily portions, produces on the sixth day the uterine changes characteristic of the eighth day of normal pregnancy; the unit has about the same potency as the international unit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| corneum | See: stratum corneum epidermidis, stratum corneum unguis. Origin: L., ntr. Of corneus, horny, fr. Cornu, horn (05 Mar 2000) |
| corniculate | Bearing, or terminating in, one or more small horns. (09 Oct 1997) |
| corniculate cartilage | A conical nodule of elastic cartilage surmounting the apex of each arytenoid cartilage. Synonym: cartilago corniculata, corniculum laryngis, Santorini's cartilage, supra-arytenoid cartilage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| corniculate tubercle | A rounded eminence on the posterior part of the aryepiglottic fold, formed by the underlying corniculate cartilages. Synonym: tuberculum corniculatum, Santorini's tubercle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| corniculopharyngeal ligament | <anatomy> An elastic band connecting the tip of the corniculate (Santorini's) cartilage and the lamina of the cricoid cartilage and continuing into the pharyngeal mucosa covering the cricoid lamina. Synonym: ligamentum cricopharyngeum, corniculopharyngeal ligament, cricosantorinian ligament, jugal ligament, ligamentum corniculopharyngeum, ligamentum jugale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| corniculum | A cornu of small size. Origin: L. Dim. Of cornu, horn (05 Mar 2000) |
| corniculum laryngis | A conical nodule of elastic cartilage surmounting the apex of each arytenoid cartilage. Synonym: cartilago corniculata, corniculum laryngis, Santorini's cartilage, supra-arytenoid cartilage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cornification | Synonym: keratinization. Origin: L. Cornu, horn, + facio, to make (05 Mar 2000) |
| cornified | Having become horny. Synonym: cornified. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cornified layer of nail | The outer, horny layer of the nail. Synonym: cornified layer of nail, horny layer of nail. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cornmeal agar | A culture medium that is low in nutrients, used extensively in the study of yeastlike and filamentous fungi; it suppresses vegetative growth while stimulating sporulation of many species, and is widely used for producing the distinctive and rapidly diagnostic chlamydospores of Candida albicans. (05 Mar 2000) |