Medical terms beginning with C

Carcinomatosis describes carcinoma that has spread extensively through the body or throughout a body cavity, representing an advanced stage of disease.

A serious problem that may occur in cancer in which cancer cells spread from the original (primary) tumor to the meninges (thin layers of tissue that cover and protect the brain and spinal cord).

One tumor wearing two faces, and the evidence now says both faces grew from a single ancestor cell rather than two cancers colliding.

Carcinosis is an older term for widespread dissemination of carcinoma through the body, now generally used interchangeably with carcinomatosis.

Pertaining to slowing or stopping the growth of cancer.

One root with two destinations: nearly always the heart, but occasionally the stomach opening that happens to lie beside it.

Not a plumbing problem but an electrical one: the pump stops, the person drops, and everything downstream of circulation halts at once.

An electronic device that is implanted in the body to monitor heart rate and rhythm.

A rare cancer that develops in tissues of the heart.

A plant whose leaves, stems, and flowers have been used in some cultures to treat certain medical problems.

Cardiopulmonary describes anything involving both the heart and lungs, which work together to circulate blood and exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide.

Cardiotoxicity is heart damage or dysfunction caused by exposure to a medication or other substance, sometimes appearing only after treatment ends.

Pump and pipework are described as a single system because trouble in either one changes what reaches the tissues at the far end.

A drug used to treat high blood pressure and urinary problems caused by an enlarged prostate.

Most caregiving is unpaid and unrecorded, carried out by relatives who never chose the role and were never trained for it.

The fork in the airway, and the reason an inhaled object almost always ends up in the right lung rather than the left.

A rare, inherited disorder marked by dark spots on the skin and tumors in the heart, endocrine glands, skin, and nerves.

A rare, inherited disorder marked by tumors of the gastrointestinal tract and tumors that form in embryonic nervous tissue in the head, neck, and torso.

A rare, inherited disorder marked by dark spots on the skin and tumors in the heart, endocrine glands, skin, and nerves.

A very rare disorder marked by tumors of the gastrointestinal tract (usually the stomach), tumors that form in embryonic nervous tissue in the head, neck, and torso, and tumors that form in…