[ C ]

• C  about [Lat. circa]; ascorbic acid; bruised [Lat. contusus]; calcitonin-forming [cell]; calculus; calorie [large]; Campylobacter; Candida; canine tooth; capability [list]; capacitance; capsid protein; carbohydrate; carbon; cardiac; cardiovascular disease; carrier; cast; cathode; Caucasian; cell; Celsius; centigrade; central; central electrode placement in electroencephalography; centromeric or constitutive heterochromatic chromosome [banding]; cer-ebrospinal; certified; cervical; cesarean [section]; chest (precordial) lead in electrocardiography; chicken; Chlamydia; chloramphenicol; cholesterol; class; clearance; clonus; Clostridium; closure; clubbing; coarse [bacterial colonies]; cocaine; coefficient; colorectal tumor with metastases to lymph nodes [Dukes classification]; color sense; colored [guinea pig]; communicating [pacemaker]; complement; complex; compliance; component; compound [Lat. compositus]; concentration; concept [UMLS]; conditioned, conditioning; condyle; constant; consultation; contamination; contraction; control; conventionally reared [experimental animal]; convergence; correct; cortex; coulomb; count; criteria; Cryptococcus; cubic; cubitus; cyanosis; cylinder; cysteine; cytidine; cytochrome; cytosine; gallon [Lat. congius]; horn [Lat. cornu]; hundred [Lat. centum]; large calorie; molar heat capacity; rib [Lat. costa]; total capacitance; velocity of light; with [Lat. cum]
• C⁰  concentration zero
• C1  first cervical nerve; first cervical vertebra; first component of complement
• C₁  first rib
•   activated first component of complement
• C1-9  complement proteins 1 to 9
• CI  first concept [UMLS]; first cranial nerve; prostatic tumor with extracapsular extension and negative margins [Jewett staging system]; tumor with metastases to lymph nodes without involvement of perirectal adipose tissue [Astler-Coller classification]
• 2C  2-component
• C2  prostatic tumor with extracapsular extension and positive margins [Jewett staging system]; second cervical nerve; second cervical vertebra; second component of complement; second concept [UMLS]; tumor with metastases to lymph nodes and extension into perirectal adipose tissue
• C²  community capacity [AIDS prevention]
• C₂  second rib
•   activated second component of complement
• CII  second cranial nerve
• 3C  3-component; cranio-cerebello-cardiac syndrome
• C3  prostatic tumor with seminal vesical involvement [Jewett staging system]; third cervical nerve; third cervical vertebra; third component of complement
• C₃  Collins' solution; third rib
•   activated third component of complement
• CIII  third cranial nerve
• C4  controlled collapse chip connection; fourth cervical nerve; fourth cervical vertebra; fourth component of complement
•   activated fourth component of complement
• CIV  fourth cranial nerve
• C5  fifth cervical nerve; fifth cervical vertebra; fifth component of complement
•   activated fifth component of complement
• CV  fifth cranial nerve
• C6  sixth cervical nerve; sixth cervical vertebra; sixth component of complement
•   activated sixth component of complement
• CVI  sixth cranial nerve
• C7  seventh cervical nerve; seventh cervical vertebra; seventh component of complement
•   activated seventh component of complement
• CVII  seventh cranial nerve
• C8  eighth component of complement
•   activated eighth component of complement
• CVIII  eighth cranial nerve
• C9  ninth component of complement
•   activated ninth component of complement
• CIX-CXII  ninth to twelfth cranial nerves
• °C  degree Celsius
• C´  complement
• c  about [Lat. circa]; calorie [small]; candle; canine tooth; capacity; capillary; carat; centi-; clinical; complementary [strand]; concentration; contact; cup; curie; cyclic; meal [Lat. cibus]; specific heat capacity; with [Lat. cum]
• c´  coefficient of partage
• c-  centi- [10^-1]
• χ  see chi
• CA  anterior commissure [Lat. commissura anterior]; calcium antagonist; California [rabbit]; cancer; cancer antigen; Candida albicans; caproic acid; capsid; capsid protein; carbohydrate antagonist; carbonic anhydrase; carcinoma; cardiac angiography; cardiac apnea; cardiac arrest; cardiac arrhythmia; carotid artery; cast; catecholamine, catecholaminergic; cathode; Caucasian adult; celiac axis; cell automation; cellulose acetate; cerebral aqueduct; cerebral atrophy; certification authority; cervicoaxial; Chemical Abstracts; chemotactic activity; child abuse; chloroamphetamine; cholic acid; chorio-amniotic; chromosomal aberration; chronic anovulation; chronological age; citric acid; clotting assay; coagglutination; coarctation of the aorta; Cocaine Anonymous; coefficient of absorption; cold agglutinin; colloid antigen; common antigen; compressed air; computer-assisted; conceptional age; condyloma acuminatum; coracoacromial; coronary angioplasty; coronary artery; corpora allata; corpora amylacea; corpus albicans; corrected [echo] area; cortisone acetate; cricoarytenoid; cricoid arch; croup-associated [virus]; cytosine arabinoside; cytotoxic antibody
• C&A  Clinitest and Acetest
• CA1  carbonic anhydrase I
• CA-2  second colloid antigen
• CA 15.3  marker for breast carcinoma
• CA 19.9  marker for colorectal and pancreatic carcinomas
• CA 27.29  marker for breast carcinoma
• CA 50  marker for pancreatic or colorectal carcinomas
• CA 72.4  marker for gastrointestinal and ovarian carcinomas
• CA 125  marker for ovarian and endometrial carcinomas
• CA 242  marker for pancreatic and colorectal carcinomas
• CA 549  marker for breast carcinoma
• Ca  calcium; cancer, carcinoma; Candida albicans; cathode
• ca  about [Lat. circa]; candle; carcinoma
• CAA  carotid audiofrequency analysis; cerebral amyloid angiopathy; circulating anodic antigen; Clean Air Act; computer-assisted assessment; constitutional aplastic anemia; coronary artery aneurysm; crystalline amino acids
• CAADAC  California Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors
• CAAH  chronic active autoimmune hepatitis
• CAAS  cardiovascular angiographic analysis system; Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services
• CAASET  Canadian Amlodipine and Atenolol Stress Echo [trial]
• CAAT  computer-assisted axial tomography
• CAAV  canine adeno-associated virus
• CAAX [box]  protein segment in which C is cysteine, A is usually but not always an aliphatic amino acid, and X is methionine or serine
• CAB  captive air bubble; cellulose acetate butyrate; coronary artery bypass
• CABADAS  [prevention of] Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Occlusion by Aspirin, Dipyridamole and Acenocoumarol Study
• CABBS  computer-assisted blood background subtraction
• CABF  coronary artery blood flow
• CABG  coronary artery bypass grafting
• CABG-PATCH  Coronary Artery Bypass Graft [trial with/without epicardial] Patch [for automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator]
• CABGS  coronary artery bypass graft surgery
• CaBI  calcium bone index
• Ca²⁺-blocker  calcium channel blocker
• CABM  Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine
• CABMET  Colorado Association of Biomedical Engineering Technicians
• CaBP  calcium-binding protein
• CABRI  Coronary Angioplasty versus Bypass Revascularization Investigation; Coronary Artery Bypass Revascularization Investigation
• CABS  citric acid-buffered saline [solution]; continuous ambulatory blood sampler; coronary artery bypass surgery
• CABV  Cabassou virus
• cabyv  cucurbit aphid-borne yellow virus
• CAC  Carcinogeneity Assessment Committee [FDA]; cardiac-accelerator center; cardiac arrest code; children's asthma center; circulating anticoagulant; clinical application coordinator
• CaCC  calcium-sensitive chloride channel; cathodal closure contraction
• CAC/CIC  chronic active/inactive cirrhosis
• CACCN  Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses
• CACHET  Comparison of Abciximab Complications with Hirulog for Ischemic Events Trial
• CACP  cisplatin
• CaCTe  cathodal closure tetanus
• CACTIS  Comparison of Aspirin with Clopidogrel or Ticlopidine in Stents [trial]
• CACV  cacao virus
• CaCV  canine calicivirus
• CaCX  cancer of cervix
• CACY  calcyclin
• CAD  cadaver, cadaveric; central appointment desk [computer-based coordination]; chronic actinic dermatitis; coenzyme A dehydrogenase; cold agglutinin disease; collisionally activated dissociation; compressed air disease; computer-aided design; computer-aided dispatch; computer-assisted design; computer-assisted diagnosis; congenital abduction deficiency; coronary artery disease; coronoradiographic documentation
• Cad  cadaver, cadaveric
• CADA  Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse
• CADASIL  cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy
• CAD/CAM  computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing
• CADCCC  Central Australia Disease Control Coordinating Committee
• CADD  computer-aided drug design
• CADHYP  Coronary Artery Disease in Hypertension [study]
• CADI  coronary artery disease index
• CADILLAC  Controlled Abciximab and Device Investigation to Lower Late Angioplasty Complications [study]
• CADL  Communicative Abilities in Daily Living
• CADMIO  computer-assisted design for medical information objectives
• cADPR  cyclic adenosinephosphate-ribose
• CADR  coronary artery descriptors and restenosis
• CADRES  Coronary Artery Descriptors and Restenosis [project]
• CADS  Captopril and Digoxin Study
• CaDTe  cathodal-duration tetanus
• CADV  Cano Delgadito virus
• CAdV  canine adenovirus; caprine adenovirus
• CADx  computer-aided diagnosis
• CAE  caprine arthritis-encephalitis; cellulose acetate electrophoresis; childhood absence epilepsy; contingent after-effects; coronary artery embolism
• CaE  calcium excretion
• CaEDTA  calcium disodium ethylene-diaminetetraacetate
• CAE-IEF  cellulose acetate-isoelectric focusing [electrophoresis]
• CAEP  Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians; cortical auditory evoked potential
• CAER  community awareness and emergency response
• CAESA  computer-assisted estimation of synthetic accessibility
• CAESAR  Canada, Australia, Europe and South Africa Republic [trial]; computer-assisted ear nose and throat surgery using augmented reality; Computer-Assisted Evaluation of Stenosis and Restenosis [system]
• CAEV  caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus; Chironomus attenuatus entomopoxvirus
• CAF  cell adhesion factor; citric acid fermentation; combined acetabular and femoral [navigation in computer-assisted surgery]; common assembly format [genome sequencing]; cortical activation function
• Caf  caffeine
• CAFA  Canadian Atrial Fibrillation Anticoagulation [study]
• CAFE  Coronary Artery Flow Evaluation
• CAFS  Canadian Atrial Fibrillation Study
• CAG  cholangiogram, cholangiography; chronic atrophic gastritis; coronary angiography
• CAGA  calgranulin A
• CAGB  calgranulin B
• CAGC  Canadian Association of Genetic Counsellors
• CAGE  capillary affinity gel electrophoresis; cut down, annoyed by criticism, guilty about drinking, eye-opener drinks (a test for alcoholism)
• CAH  CAS [Chemical Abstracts] Surveyor Hazardous Materials; chronic active hepatitis; chronic aggressive hepatitis; combined atrial hypertrophy; congenital adrenal hyperplasia; cyanacetic acid hydrazide
• CAHD  coronary arteriosclerotic heart disease
• CAHEA  Committee on Allied Health Education and Accreditation
• CAHMR  cataract-hypertrichosis-mental retardation [syndrome]
• CAHPS  Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Survey
• CAHS  central alveolar hypoventilation syndrome
• CAHV  central alveolar hypoventilation
• CaHV  canid herpesvirus
• CAI  celiac artery infusion; cellular adaptive immunotherapy; chemical accident or incident; complete androgen insensitivity; computer-assisted instruction; computer-assisted interview; confluence of informatics
• CAID  computer-aided implant dentistry
• CAIRA  chemical accident or incident response and assistance
• CAIS  complete androgen insensitivity syndrome
• CAIUS  Carotid Atherosclerosis Italian Ultrasound Study
• CAIV  Caimito virus
• CaIV  Campoletis aprilis ichnovirus
• C(a-jb)O₂  arterial-jugular bulb venous oxygen ratio
• CAK  cyclin-dependent kinase-activating kinase
• cAK  cyclic adenosine monophosphate [cAMP] dependent protein kinase
• CAL  cafe au lait; calcium test; calculated average life; calories; chronic airflow limitation; computer-assisted learning; coracoacromial ligament
• Cal  caliber; large calorie
• cal  small calorie
• C_alb  albumin clearance
• Calc  calcium
• CALC  calcitonin
• calc  calculation
• calcif  calcification
• CALCR  calcitonin receptor
• CALD  chronic active liver disease
• CALGB  cancer and leukemia group B
• CALH  chronic active lupoid hepatitis
• CalHV  callitrichine herpesvirus
• cALL  common null cell acute lymphocytic leukemia
• CALLA, cALLA  common acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen
• CALM  cafe-au-lait macules
• CALP  congenital absence of left pericardium
• CALS  cafe-au-lait spots
• CaLV  cardamine latent virus
• CALYPSO  Cylexin as an Adjunct to Lytic Therapy to Prevent Superoxide Reflow Injury
• CAM  calf aortic microsome; cell adhesion molecule; cell-associating molecule; chemical agent monitor; chorioallantoic membrane; complementary and alternative medicine(s); compressed adjacency matrix; computer assisted myelography; confusion assessment method [rating for delirium]; content-addressable memory; contralateral axillary metastasis; cystic adenomatoid malformation
• CaM  calmodulin
• C_am  amylase clearance
• CaM-A  calmodulin-agarose
• CAMAC  computer automated measurement and control
• CAMAK  cataract-microcephaly-arthrogryposis-kyphosis [syndrome]
• CAMAT  Canadian Amiodarone Myocardial Infarction Arrhythmia Trial
• CAMC  camera augmented mobile C-arm; computer application in medical care; computer analysis of mammography phantom images
• CAMCAM  Center for Assessment and Management of Changes in Academic Medicine
• CAMCAT  Canadian Multicenter Clentiazem Angina Trial
• CAMCOG  Cambridge cognitive capacity scale
• CAMD  computer-aided molecular design
• CAMDEX  Cambridge mental disorders of the elderly examination
• CAMF  cyclophosphamide, Adriamycin, methotrexate, fluorouracil
• CAMFAK  cataract-microcephaly-failure to thrive-kyphoscoliosis [syndrome]
• CAMH  Center for Addiction and Mental Health
• CAMI  Canadian Assessment of Myocardial Infarction [study]; computer-assisted medical intervention
• CAMIAT  Canadian Amiodarone Myocardial Infarction Arrhythmia Trial; Canadian Myocardial Infarction Amiodarone Trial
• CAMIS  Center for Applied Medical Information Systems Research
• CAMK  calmodulin-dependent protein kinase
• CaMK  calcium-mediated kinase
• CAML  cystic adenomatoid malformation of the lung
• CAMP  Christie-Atkins-Munch-Petersen [test]; computer-assisted management protocol; computer-assisted menu planning; concentration of adenosine monophosphate; cyclic adenosine monophosphate; cyclophosphamide, Adriamycin, methotrexate, and procarbazine
• cAMP  cyclic adenosine monophosphate
• CAMPASS  Cambridge Database on Protein Alignments Organized as Structural Superfamilies
• CAMRT  Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists
• CAMS  computer-assisted monitoring system
• CAMT  Center for Advanced Medical Technology
• CAMTS  Commission for Accreditation of Medical Transport Services
• CAMV  congenital anomaly of mitral valve

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