Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A system of healing and a religion founded my Mary Baker Eddy, which maintains and teaches that disease and sin are caused by mental error. A religion, and system of healing through prayer and the control of mind over matter. The services of Christian Science sanatoria are covered under some health insurance programs including Medicare…

Deterioration of the choroid and the retina, choroiditis.  

Inflammation of the choroid is one of the more serious eye diseases. Inflammation of the choroid layer of the eye. It may be inflamed together with the iris and ciliary body, but often is involved alone and in patches {focal or multifocal choroiditis). Vision becomes blurred but the eye is usually painless. Choroiditis refers to…

The highly vascular membrane situated between the sclerotic coat and the retina of the eye. The middle layer of tissue which forms the eyeball, between the sclera and the retina. Membrane in the eye, between the retina and the sclera, having many blood vessels. The layer of the eyeball between the retina and the sclera.…

A technique for prenatal detection of genetic defects that involves removal of some of the villi growing on the outer surface of the chorion and examining their chromosomes. An antenatal screening test carried out by examining cells from the chorionic villi of the outer membrane surrounding an embryo, which have the same DNA as the…

A procedure in which embryonic cells are removed for the purpose of detecting fetal abnormalities, chorionic villus sampling; chorionic villi sampling.  

Fingerlike projections of the chorion forming the fetal portion of the placenta. Tiny finger-like folds in the chorion. Vascular projections in the fetal membrane that become the fetal portion of the placenta. During pregnancy, tiny fingerlike projections attached to a membrane that eventually becomes the part of the placenta closest to the baby. The fetal…

An alternative to amniocentesis that involves placing a tube into the vagina to the uterus during pregnancy. Chorionic tissue that surrounds the embryo is removed and analyzed for the possibility of genetic defects in the developing embryo.  

A membrane enveloping the fetus of mammals, external to and enclosing the amnion. A membrane covering the fertilised ovum. Outer membrane of the embryo sac, which gives rise to the placenta (the inner membrane is the amnion). Embryonic membrane that makes up part of the placenta. The embryonic membrane that totally surrounds the embryo from…

Pertaining to the involuntary, spasmodic, jerky movements of the limbs and head found in Huntington’s chorea and other nervous disorders.