Medical terms beginning with C

A condition lasting for more than 6 months in which a person feels tired most of the time and may have trouble concentrating and carrying out daily activities.

A slowly progressing disease in which too many white blood cells (not lymphocytes) are made in the bone marrow.

A progressive, chronic disease in which the bone marrow is replaced by fibrous tissue and blood is made in organs such as the liver and the spleen, instead of in the bone marrow.

Slow growing blood cancers whose cells mature far enough to function, which is why they are so often found by accident.

This slow-progressing blood cancer results from an acquired genetic change that causes the bone marrow to overproduce white blood cells.

A slowly progressing type of myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative disease in which too many myelomonocytes (a type of white blood cell) are in the bone marrow, crowding out other normal blood cells…

A disease in which too many neutrophils (a type of white blood cell) are found in the blood.

The problem is emptying rather than filling: air enters well enough but cannot get back out of a lung that has lost its recoil.

Pain that can range from mild to severe, and persists or progresses over a long period of time.

Refers to the early stages of chronic myelogenous leukemia or chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

A procedure that uses gold salts (a salt form of the metal element gold) to treat diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis.

A drug that is being studied in the treatment of solid tumors.

A milky-white fluid that forms in the small intestine during digestion.

A substance being studied in the treatment of some types of cancer.

A substance being studied in the treatment of some types of cancer.

An anticancer drug that belongs to the family of drugs called mitotic inhibitors.

A substance being studied in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer.

A part of the middle layer of the wall of the eye.

A condition in which slightly abnormal cells grow on the thin layer of tissue that covers the cervix.

A condition in which moderately abnormal cells grow on the thin layer of tissue that covers the cervix.