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Chain
A related series of events or things.
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Chagoma
A painful, red swollen lesion found at the site of inoculation of the parasite Trypanosoma into the skin.
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Chadwick’s sign
A deep blue-violet color of the cervix and vagina caused by increased vascularity; a probable sign of pregnancy that becomes evident around the fourth week of gestation.
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Cetirizine
A piperazine, administered orally to relieve allergic symptoms caused by histamine release, including seasonal and perennial allergic rhinitis and chronic urticaria. Its therapeutic classes are allergy, cold, and cough remedies, and antihistamines. An antihistamine medication is commonly prescribed to alleviate the symptoms associated with specific conditions like allergic rhinitis (hay fever) and urticaria (nettle rash).…
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Cestoidea
A class of flatworms of the phylum Platyhelminthes; it includes the tapeworms.
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Cestoda
A subclass of the class Cestoidea, phylum Platyhelminthes, which includes the tapeworms, having a scolex and a chain of segments (proglottids) (e.g., Taenia, intestinal parasites of humans and other vertebrates). The category of flatworms that includes tapeworms.
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Cestan-chenais syndrome
A neurological disorder with complex hemi-body deficits and cranial nerve findings produced by a lesion of the brainstem.
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Cesium
A metallic element; atomic weight 132.905, atomic number 55. It has several isotopes. The radioactive isotope 137Cs, which has a half-life of 30 years, is used therapeutically for irradiation of cancerous tissue.
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Postmortem cesarean section
Surgical removal of the fetus from the uterus immediately after maternal death.
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Low transverse cesarean section
Surgical removal of the fetus, placenta, and membranes through a transverse incision into the lower uterine segment. Use of this incision is associated with a decreased incidence of maternal and fetal mortality and morbidity in future pregnancies.
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