Medical terms beginning with C

The untreated half of an animal experiment, and the only reason a change in the treated half can be credited to anything.

In a clinical trial, the group that does not receive the new treatment being studied.

An experiment or clinical trial that includes a comparison (control) group.

A system in which medical doctors and other healthcare professionals (such as nurses, pharmacists, and therapists) treat symptoms and diseases using drugs, radiation, or surgery.

A currently accepted and widely used treatment for a certain type of disease, based on the results of past research.

A currently accepted and widely used treatment for a certain type of disease, based on the results of past research.

A test that finds antibodies clinging invisibly to red cells, by adding a second antibody that clumps them into something visible.

Two overlapping processes sit under one abbreviation: inflamed, narrowed airways and air sacs whose walls have broken down.

Cope describes the process of managing the emotional, physical, or practical demands created by illness, stress, or a difficult situation.

The learned habits a person falls back on under pressure, some of which reduce the strain and some of which postpone it.

A molecule made up of two or more different kinds of small molecules called monomers.

Four initials from an older era of lymphoma treatment, built by swapping out the harshest drug in the regimen that came before.

A nutrient that the body needs in small amounts to function and stay healthy.

An operation on the vocal cords or on the spinal cord.

Among the most effective rhythm drugs available and among the most toxic, because it lodges in the tissues for months.

The removal of a tissue sample with a wide needle for examination under a microscope.

The removal of a tissue sample with a wide needle for examination under a microscope.

A beta blocker that also relaxes blood vessels, used to steady a failing heart rather than simply to slow the pulse.

Clarity is bought at a price: with no blood supply the tissue stays transparent, but it must take oxygen from tears and air.

Surgery in which a healthy blood vessel taken from another part of the body is used to make a new path for blood around a blocked artery leading to the heart.