crib death
The older everyday name for a baby dying without warning during sleep, with no cause found afterward.
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492 matchescrisis intervention
Crisis intervention aims to reduce immediate risk during an acute emotional crisis rather than provide the ongoing care an underlying problem may need.
Read definitioncruciferous vegetable
The cabbage family, named for its cross-shaped flowers and marked out chemically by the sulfur compounds behind its bitterness.
Read definitioncryoablation
Cryoablation destroys abnormal tissue by freezing it precisely, offering an alternative to heat based or open surgical tissue removal.
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Cryopreservation cools cells, tissue, or organs to very low temperatures to halt biological activity and store them for later use.
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Cryosurgery destroys abnormal or diseased tissue by freezing it, most often with liquid nitrogen or a pressurized cooling gas.
Read definitioncubic centimeter
Volume, not length: reporting a lesion in cubic centimeters captures how much of it there is, which three measurements alone do not.
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A curette is a handheld surgical tool used to scrape or scoop tissue, debris, or growths from a body surface or cavity.
Read definitioncyclic neutropenia
White cell counts that rise and fall on a roughly three week schedule, so illness arrives on a predictable timetable.
Read definitioncystectomy
Depending on the organ involved, a cystectomy may mean either removing the entire urinary bladder or removing a cyst from a different organ.
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Removing the bladder means inventing a replacement for it, and that reconstruction shapes recovery more than the removal does.
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Ultrasound and CT show the bladder wall from outside; only a look inside reveals flat patches of abnormal lining.
Read definitioncystourethrectomy
Surgery to remove the bladder (the organ that holds urine) and urethra (the tube through which urine leaves the body).
Read definitioncytokine
Cytokines are small signaling proteins that immune cells release to coordinate inflammation and communication between cells during infection or injury.
Read definitioncytomegalovirus
Cytomegalovirus is a common herpesvirus that usually causes no symptoms in healthy people but can produce serious illness during pregnancy or immune suppression.
Read definitiondecortication
In thoracic surgery, decortication strips a thickened fibrous membrane from the lung's surface so the lung can re-expand fully.
Read definitiondeferoxamine
The body has no way to excrete surplus iron, so anyone transfused repeatedly needs a drug to carry it out for them.
Read definitiondehydration
Dehydration affects infants, older adults, and people with chronic illness disproportionately, since each group is less able to compensate for fluid losses.
Read definitiondevelopmental stage
A developmental stage is a recognizable period of physical, cognitive, emotional, and social change that a child moves through while growing toward adulthood.
Read definitionDEXA
The abbreviation is also written DXA, and the two forms name the same low-dose x-ray method for measuring bone mineral density.
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