| CSD | carotid sinus denervation; cat scratch disease; combined system disease; conditionally streptomycin ... |
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| CVD | cardiovascular disease; cerebrovascular disease; collagen vascular disease; color-vision-deviant |
| GBD | gallbladder disease; gender behavior disorder; glass blower's disease; granulomatous bowel disease |
| GD | gastroduodenal; Gaucher disease; general diagnostics; general dispensary; gestational day; Gianotti ... |
| ICD | I-cell disease; immune complex disease; implantable cardioverter defibrillator; impulse-control diso... |
striate body neurosis
| melon-seed body | A small fibrous loose body in the joints or tendon sheaths. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Golgi body | <cell biology> Intracellular stack of membrane bounded vesicles in which glycosylation and packaging of secreted proteins takes place. Part of the GERL complex. Synonym: Golgi body, Golgi vesicles, dictyosome (in plants), parabasal body (in flagellate protozoa). (11 Jan 1998) |
| perineal body | central tendon of perineum |
| granuloma, foreign-body | Histiocytic, inflammatory response to a foreign body. It consists of modified macrophages with multinucleated giant cells, in this case foreign-body giant cells (giant cells, foreign-b0dy), usually surrounded by lymphocytes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| rice body | One of the small, loose body's found in hygromas, tendon sheaths, and joints. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ringworm of body | A fungal skin infection sometimes referred to as ringworm. Typically a scaly, red-shaped ring on the skin. Commonly seen in children. Treatment requires an antifungal cream such as clotrimazole or miconazole. (27 Sep 1997) |
| Guarnieri body | Acidophilic inclusion body found in cells infected with vaccinia virus, composed of viral particles and proteins, it is the location of virus replication and assembly. (18 Nov 1997) |
| chromaffin body | A small, roundish body containing chromaffin cells; a number of such bodies may be found retroperitoneally near the aorta and in organs such as the kidney, liver, heart, and gonads. Synonym: chromaffin body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chromatin body | Barr body, condensed X chromosome in female mammalian cell. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Michaelis-Gutmann body | <radiology> A rounded homogenous or concentrically laminated body, 1 to 10 u in diameter, containing calcium apatite and iron; found within macrophages in the bladder wall in malakoplakia. (12 Jul 2000) |
| ciliary body | <anatomy> Tissue that includes the group of muscles that act on the eye lens to produce accommodation and the arterial circle of the iris. The inner ciliary epithelium is continuous with the pigmented retinal epithelium, the outer ciliary epithelium secretes the aqueous humour. (18 Nov 1997) |
| mind-body relations | <psychology> The relation between the mind and the body in a religious, social, spiritual, behavioural, and metaphysical context. This concept is significant in the field of alternative medicine. It differs from the relationship between physiologic processes and behaviour where the emphasis is on the body's physiology ( = psychophysiology). (12 Dec 1998) |
| coccygeal body | An arteriovenous (arteriolovenular) anastomosis supplied by the middle sacral artery and located on the pelvic surface of the coccyx. It was formerly called a gland (of Luschka) or a glomus and included with the paraganglia. Synonym: corpus coccygeum, arteriococcygeal gland, coccygeal gland, glomus coccygeum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| molluscum body | A disticntive intracellular spherical body in the lesions of molluscum contagiosum caused by a member of the family Poxviridae; it consists of degenerated cytoplasm and the virus. Synonym: molluscum corpuscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pigmented layer of ciliary body | The continuation of the pigment layer of the retina onto the posterior aspect of the ciliary body. Synonym: pigmented layer of ciliary body. (05 Mar 2000) |