| Cornelia de Lange syndrome | <syndrome> A congenital anomaly characterised by impaired development, mental retardation, characteristic facies with snyophrys and hairline well down on forehead, depressed bridge of nose with uptilted tip of nose, small head with low-set ears, and flat spadelike hands with simian crease and short tapering fingers. Synonym: Amsterdam syndrome, Cornelia de Lange syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| cornell medical index | Self-administered health questionnaire developed to obtain details of the medical history as an adjunct to the medical interview. It consists of 195 questions divided into eighteen sections; the first twelve deal with somatic complaints and the last six with mood and feeling patterns. The index is used also as a personality inventory or in epidemiologic studies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| corneoblepharon | Adhesion of the eyelid margin to the cornea. Origin: cornea + G. Blepharon, eyelid (05 Mar 2000) |
| corneocyte | The dead keratin-filled squamous cell of the stratum corneum. Synonym: horny cell, keratinised cell. Origin: cornea, L. Fem. Of corneus, horny, + G. Kytos, cell (05 Mar 2000) |
| corneocyte envelope | An electron-dense, 10-15 nm thick layer of highly cross-linked protein on the cytoplasmic surface of the cell membrane of epidermal corneocytes; it is highly resistant to proteolytic agents. Synonym: subplasmalemmal dense zone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| corneosclera | The combined cornea and sclera when considered as forming the external coat of the eyeball. (05 Mar 2000) |
| corneoscleral | Pertaining to the cornea and sclera. (05 Mar 2000) |
| corneoscleral part of trabecular reticulum | The anterior part of the trabecular reticulum, located between the sinus venosus sclerae, the scleral spur, and the posterior limiting membrane of the cornea. Synonym: pars corneoscleralis reticuli trabecularis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| corneous | Synonym: horny. Origin: L. Corneus, fr. Cornu, horn (05 Mar 2000) |
| Corner's tampon | A plug of omentum stuffed into a wound of the stomach or intestine as a temporary tampon. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Corner, Edred | <person> English surgeon, 1873-1950. See: Corner's tampon. (05 Mar 2000) |
| 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) |