Category: A

  • Antemortem clot

    A clot formed in the heart or its cavities before death.  

  • Agonal clot

    A clot formed in the heart when death follows prolonged heart failure.  

  • Alveolar cleft

    An anomaly resulting from lack of fusion between the medial nasal process and the maxillary process. A cleft maxillary alveolar process is usually associated with a cleft lip or palate or both.  

  • Cis

    Stereochemistry at a carbon-carbon double bond with both substituents on the same side of the bond. Inorganic chemistry, a form of isomerism in which similar atoms or radicals are on the same side. In genetics, a prefix meaning the location of two or more genes on the same chromosome of a homologous pair.  

  • Assisted circulation

    Use of a mechanical device to augment or replace the action of the heart in pumping blood.  

  • Arterial circulation

    Movement of blood through the arteries. It is maintained by the pumping of the heart and influenced by the elasticity and extensibility of arterial walls, peripheral resistance in the areas of small arteries, and the quantity of blood in the body.  

  • Accessory chromosomes

    An unpaired sex chromosome.  

  • Adsorption chromatography

    Chromatography accomplished by applying the test material to one end of a sheet or column containing a solid. As the material moves, the various constituents adhere to the surface of the particles of the solid at different distances from the starting point according to their chemical characteristics.  

  • Areolar choroiditis

    Choroiditis in which inflammation spreads from around the macula lutea.  

  • Anterior choroiditis

    Choroiditis in which outlets of exudation are at the choroidal periphery.