Category: T

A condition characterized by excessive dryness, wrinkling, and scaling of skin sometimes seen in vitamin deficiencies. Dry and coarse skin linked to a lack of vitamin A in one’s diet.  

An elastic protein in sarcomeres that anchors myosin filaments to the Z disks.  

A cell resembling a plasma cell, found in cases of severe anemia or chronic infection.  

A chemical used to protect the skin from the sun. It is also used in industrial applications to produce white in paints and plastics.  

The response of living tissues to altered conditions or types of restorative materials, metals or cements.  

A device that prepares tissue samples for sectioning and microscopic examination in the clinical laboratory.  

Any substance used to smooth body contours, eliminate defects in body structure, or improve cosmesis.  

In radiation therapy, the ratio of the absorbed dose at a given depth to the absorbed dose at the same point in free space.  

The coagulation, cooking, drying, or destruction of tissues, e.g., with cautery, chemicals, or thermotherapy.  

Fastening wire around the fragments of a bone.