| CP | candle power; capillary pressure; cardiac pacing; cardiac performance; cardiopulmonary; caudate puta... |
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| CPLS | cleft palate-lateral synechia syndrome |
| CPX | cleft palate, X-linked; clinical practice examination; complete physical examination |
| ECP | ectrodactyly-cleft palate [syndrome]; effector cell precursor; endocardial potential; eosinophil cat... |
| MCF | macrophage chemotactic factor; median cleft face; medium corpuscular fragility; microcomplement fixa... |
| subdural cleft | Originally thought to be a narrow fluid-filled interval between the dural and arachnoid; now known to be an artificial space created by the separation of the arachnoid from the dura as the result of trauma or some ongoing pathologic process; in the healthy state, the arachnoid is attached to the dura and a naturally occurring subdural space is not present. Synonym: spatium subdurale, cavum subdurale, subdural cavity, subdural cleavage, subdural cleft. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| synaptic cleft | <physiology> The narrow space between the presynaptic cell and the postsynaptic cell in a chemical synapse, across which the neurotransmitter diffuses. (10 Jan 1998) |
| oblique facial cleft | Congenital facial cleft from mouth to the inner canthus of the eye. Synonym: oblique facial cleft. Origin: prosopo-+ G. Schisis, fissure (05 Mar 2000) |
| two-cleft | <botany> Divided about half way from the border to the base into two segments; bifid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| facial cleft | A cleft resulting from incomplete merging or fusion of embryonic processes normally uniting in the formation of the face, e.g., cleft lip or cleft palate. Synonym: prosopoanoschisis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| urogenital cleft | The cleft between the labia majora. Synonym: rima pudendi, fissura pudendi, pudendal cleavage, pudendal slit, rima vulvae, urogenital cleft, vulvar slit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| first visceral cleft | <anatomy> The cleft between the hyoid and mandibular arches of the embryo; the external auditory meatus is developed from its dorsal portion. Synonym: first visceral cleft. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Larrey's cleft | A muscular defect in the diaphragm between the costal and the sternal portions. Synonym: Larrey's cleft, sternocostal triangle. (05 Mar 2000) |