Medical terms beginning with C

A membrane that lines the inner surface of the eyelid and also covers the front part of the eye.

Conjunctivitis, or pinkeye, inflames the membrane covering the white of the eye and inner eyelids, producing redness that can stem from infection, allergy, or irritation.

A substance made by the pancreas.

Supporting tissue that surrounds other tissues and organs.

A clinical study that includes all eligible patients identified by the researchers during the study registration period.

A program of the National Institutes of Health to bring together an independent group of experts to review scientific evidence related to an important public health issue.

Treatment that is given after cancer has disappeared following the initial therapy.

Straining and hard stool define it more than frequency does, because the normal range between healthy people is remarkably wide.

Contiguous structures or areas of tissue are directly touching or immediately adjacent, without any gap or intervening structure between them.

Lymphoma in which the lymph nodes containing cancer are next to each other.

A pouch formed from a piece of small intestine to hold urine after the bladder has been removed.

Paying people, in vouchers or prizes, for verified evidence of a target behavior, and among the best supported approaches in addiction care.

A procedure that bathes the abdominal cavity in fluid that contains anticancer drugs.

The administration of a fluid into a blood vessel, usually over a prolonged period of time.

Health services arranged as one connected path rather than a series of disconnected visits and handovers.

An outside company paid to run parts of a clinical trial, while legal responsibility for the study stays with whoever commissioned it.

The mirror image of an indication: a specific reason in this particular person for not doing what would otherwise be the right thing.

Contralateral describes a structure, finding, or effect located on the side of the body opposite to the one being discussed.

A series of x-ray pictures of the esophagus taken after a patient drinks a liquid containing barium sulfate (a form of the silver-white metallic element barium).

A dye or other substance that helps show abnormal areas inside the body.