| ATF | activating transcription factor; anterior talofibular [ligament]; ascites tumor fluid |
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| BALF | broncho-alveolar lavage fluid |
| BALT | broncho-alveolar lavage fluid; bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue |
| BCB | blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier; brilliant cresyl blue |
| BECF | blood extracellular fluid |
| Boyer's cyst | A subhyoid cyst. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| brachial cleft cyst | A cervical cyst arising from the persistence of ectodermal brachial cleft (groove) or endodermal pharyngeal pouches. (27 Sep 1997) |
| branchial cleft cyst | Also called a branchial cyst, this is a cavity that is a remnant from embryologic development present at birth in one side of the neck just in front of the large angulated muscle on either side (the sternocleidomastoid muscle). The cyst may not be recognised until adolescence as it enlarges its oval shape. Sometimes it develops a sinus or drainage pathway to the surface of the skin from which mucus can be expressed. Total surgical excision is the treatment of choice. Recurrence is not expected. (12 Dec 1998) |
| branchial cyst | Also called a branchial cleft cyst, this is a cavity that is a remnant from embryologic development present at birth in one side of the neck just in front of the large angulated muscle on either side (the sternocleidomastoid muscle). The cyst may not be recognised until adolescence as it enlarges its oval shape. It may develop a sinus or drainage pathway to the surface of the skin from which mucus can be expressed. Total surgical excision is the treatment of choice. Recurrence is not expected. (12 Dec 1998) |
| bronchogenic cyst | <radiology> Abnormality of primitive foregut (ventral segment = tracheobronchial tree; dorsal segment = oesophagus), lined with columnar respiratory epithelium, CT: water density (50%); higher density (50%); may have air/fluid level, mediastinal brochogenic cyst (86%), associated with spinal abnormalities, M:F = 1:1, stridor, dysphagia; usually assymptomatic, may communicate with tracheal lumen, location: posterior mediastinum (50%), pericarinal (35%), superior mediastinum (14%); usually on right, intrapulmonary bronchogenic cyst (14%), M>F; LL:UL = 2:1 (usually medial third), infection (75%), dyspnea, haemoptysis, 36% will eventually contain air (12 Dec 1998) |
| bursal cyst | A retention cyst in a bursa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| calcifying and keratinizing odontogenic cyst | A mixed radiolucent-radiopaque lesion of the jaws with features of both a cyst and a solid neoplasm; characterised microscopically by an epithelial lining showing a palisaded layer of columnar basal cells, presence of ghost cell keratinization, dentinoid, and calcification. Synonym: calcifying and keratinizing odontogenic cyst, Gorlin cyst. (05 Mar 2000) |
| calcifying odontogenic cyst | A mixed radiolucent-radiopaque lesion of the jaws with features of both a cyst and a solid neoplasm; characterised microscopically by an epithelial lining showing a palisaded layer of columnar basal cells, presence of ghost cell keratinization, dentinoid, and calcification. Synonym: calcifying and keratinizing odontogenic cyst, Gorlin cyst. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vaginal cyst | A closed sac on or under the vaginal mucosa that contains fluid or semi-solid material. These may occur secondary to trauma. Treatment may include surgical excision. (27 Sep 1997) |
| radicular cyst | Slow-growing fluid-filled epithelial sac at the apex of a tooth with a nonvital pulp or defective root canal filling. (12 Dec 1998) |
| ganglion cyst | <dermatology, tumour> A small cystic tumour, composed of ganglion cells, containing viscous fluid and connected either with a joint membrane or a tendon sheath. Commonly found on the back of the wrist, hands or feet. (27 Sep 1997) |
| gartner duct cyst | <radiology> Cyst in lateral wall of vagina, remnant of wolffian duct (12 Dec 1998) |
| Gartner's cyst | A cyst of the principal duct in the vestigial structures of the paroophoron in the cervix or anterolateral vaginal wall, corresponding to the sexual portion of mesonephros in the male. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gartner's duct cyst | <gynaecology> A closed sac on or under the vaginal mucosa that contains fluid or semi-solid material. These may occur secondary to trauma. Treatment may include surgical excision. (27 Sep 1997) |
| gas cyst | A cyst with gaseous instead of the ordinary liquid or pultaceous contents. (05 Mar 2000) |