Medical terms beginning with C

Chondrocytes are the sole resident cells of cartilage, embedded within the tissue's own matrix and responsible for producing and maintaining it.

A long sugar chain bristling with negative charge, which drags in water and lets cartilage spring back after every step.

Chondrosarcoma is a cancer that forms in cartilage, most often affecting the pelvis, ribs, or the ends of long bones.

CHOP is a four drug chemotherapy combination built from cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone, most often used to treat non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination that is used to treat non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

A rare midline bone tumor grown from embryonic leftovers, slow to develop but stubbornly local and prone to returning.

A type of cancer that grows into the muscular wall of the uterus.

The membrane in hens' eggs that helps chicken embryos get enough oxygen and calcium for development.

A malignant, fast-growing tumor that develops from trophoblastic cells (cells that help an embryo attach to the uterus and help form the placenta).

A fast-growing tumor of placental cells that reaches the lungs early yet responds remarkably well to chemotherapy.

A malignant, fast-growing tumor that develops from trophoblastic cells (cells that help an embryo attach to the uterus and help form the placenta).

A malignant, fast-growing tumor that develops from trophoblastic cells (cells that help an embryo attach to the uterus and help form the placenta).

A thin layer of tissue that is part of the middle layer of the wall of the eye, between the sclera (white outer layer of the eye) and the retina (the inner layer of nerve tissue at the back of the…

A rare type of cancer that occurs in the ventricles of the brain.

A type of cell that makes neurohormones (chemicals that are made by nerve cells and used to send signals to other cells) and releases them into the blood.

Chromatography is a laboratory technique that separates the components of a mixture as they travel at different rates through an absorbing material.

Packaging is the point, since the DNA in one cell would stretch about two meters and chromosomes fold it to fit inside a nucleus.

The word says nothing about how serious a problem is, only that it has lasted, and a chronic illness may be entirely stable.

Inflammation of the prostate gland that is caused by a bacterial infection and that continues or gets worse over a long period of time.

A disease in which too many eosinophils (a type of white blood cell) are found in the bone marrow, blood, and other tissues.