Medical terms beginning with C

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

A drug used alone or with other drugs to treat colon cancer or rectal cancer that has spread to other parts of the body or has come back after treatment with fluorouracil.

An investigational sulfonamide tested against cancer, sharing a chemical backbone with the sulfa antibiotics but none of their antibacterial action.

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

A muscle locking up on its own, briefly and painfully, most often in the calf, the foot or the abdominal wall.

A non-cancerous growth near the pituitary gland that causes serious trouble through its position rather than by spreading.

A craniotomy creates a temporary opening in the skull to give surgeons direct access to the brain for a planned neurosurgical procedure.

A compound that is excreted from the body in urine.

Most cholesterol in the blood is manufactured by the liver rather than eaten, which is why a drug aimed at the liver works.

The older everyday name for a baby dying without warning during sleep, with no cause found afterward.

Pierced with small holes as in a sieve.

Crisis intervention aims to reduce immediate risk during an acute emotional crisis rather than provide the ongoing care an underlying problem may need.

An anticancer drug that interferes with the DNA in cancer cells.

Full-thickness, patchy inflammation is what separates it from ulcerative colitis, and it explains the fistulas and narrowings that follow.

Describes the process inside a cell that occurs when the same signal is shared by two or more signaling pathways.

The cabbage family, named for its cross-shaped flowers and marked out chemically by the sulfur compounds behind its bitterness.

Cryoablation destroys abnormal tissue by freezing it precisely, offering an alternative to heat based or open surgical tissue removal.

Cryopreservation cools cells, tissue, or organs to very low temperatures to halt biological activity and store them for later use.

Cryosurgery destroys abnormal or diseased tissue by freezing it, most often with liquid nitrogen or a pressurized cooling gas.

A procedure in which tissue is frozen to destroy abnormal cells.