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Culture medium to Cyclopentolate hydrochloride
Culture medium: Any substance
used for the cultivation of living cells. Cupping: To draw blood to the surface from deep-seated congestions.
Cupric: Fonn of the word copper used in naming copper compounds in which the copper has a valence of 2.
Cupric chloride: A salt of copper used as an antiseptic in the treatment <?f water.
Cupric sulphate: A blue-coloured compound used as astringent, irritant and fungicide.
Curare: A dark-coloured extract from some trees of Strychnos family, used for reduction of spasms and shocks.
Curarine: The active alkaloidal principle of curare.
Curmmin: Orange-yellow compound oftunneric.
Cure: The course of treatment of any disease. .
Curie: A unit to measure radioactivity.
Current: A flow of fluid, air or electricity .
- High frequency current: An alternating electric current having a frequency of 10,000 cycles/second. It produces no muscular contractions and does not affect the sensory nerves.
- Inducing cUITent : The current that gives rise to secondary current
in the ipduction coil.
Cushing's disease: Disorder due to elevated levels of plasma corticoids. Cusp: The small knob at the centre of the free margin of a valve of the heart.
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Cultaneous : Belonging to the skin.
Cuticle: A waxy, continuous non-cellular layer on the external wall of the epidennis ; a water repellent outer membrane of plant parts.
Cutin: Waxy substance of complex nature as in the cuticle.
Cuvet, cuveUle : A glass container used to examine solutions free of turbidity.
Cyanamide: The anhydride of urea. Cyanide: Salts of hydrocyanic or prussic acid. They are highly poisonous.
Cyanamethemoglobin : A complex
, of methemoglobin with the cyanide ion.
Cyanocobalamine (Vitamin B11) : A red cobalt and cyanide containing substance, used as haematopoietic.
Cyanocobalamine
Cyanogen pungent, colourless odour.
Cyanosis: A condition of blueness seen particularly about the face and extremities and the blood is not properly oxygenated in the lungs.
Cyclamate calcium: A synthetic non-nutritive sweetening agent derived from cycIohexylamine or cyclamic acid.
[NaC-CEiN]:A extremely poisonous gas with penetrating
Cyclamine : A glycoside from Cyclamen europaeum, it is strongly
.purgative and emetic.
Cycle: A round or succession of observable phenomena, recurring usually at a regular intervals.
- Calvin cycle: A dark reaction
occurring in photosynthesis in sugar molecule.
- Carbon cycle: The steps by which carbon is extracted from the atmosphere by living organisms.
- Cardiac cycle: A complete
cardiac movement or heart beat.
- Cell cycle: The cycle of biochemical and morphological events occurring in a reproducing cell population.
- Fatty acid oxidation cycle: A series of reactions involving CoA
whereby fatty acids undergo beta
oxidation and thioclastic cleavage with the formation of acetyl Co-enzyme A.
- Glyoxylic acid cycle: The condensation of acetate with glycoxylic acid to malic acid.
- Hair cycle: The successive
phases in the production of hair.
-Kreb's urea cycle: The
production of urea in the body
involving the enzyme orginase
and amino acids arginine, omithine and citrulline.
- Menstrual cycle: The period of regularly recurring physiologic changes in the endometrium, occurring during the reproductive period of human females.
- Nitrogen cycle: The steps by which nitrogen is extracted from the nitrates of soil and water.
- Succinic acid cycle: A series of oxidation reduction reactions, in which succinic acid with other four carbon atoms take part in the oxidation of pyruvic acid.
- TCA (Tricarboxylic acid) cycle: The cyclic metabolism by which the complete oxidation of the acetyl moiety of acetyl-coenzyme A is effected.
- Urea cycle: Reactions occurring
in the liver forming urea. Cyclitis: Inflammation of the ciliary body.
Cyclizine : A colourless powder, used as an antiemetic agent. Cyclobarbitone : A hypnotic and sedative agent.
CycIocumarol : An anticoagulant compound.
Cycloheximide: A plant growth regulator and a by-product of streptomycin.
Cycloplegic: Eliminates powder of optical accommodation by paralysing ciliary muscles of the eyeball.
Cyclopentamine hydrochloride [CSU,CH2CH(CH3)NHCH3 . HCI] : A white crystalline powder with characteristic odour and bitter taste, used as a vasoconstrictor to reduce nasal congestions.
Cyclopentane [CsHuJ : A cyclic colourless hydrocarbon.
Cyclopentanoperhydro phenanthrene nucleus: A polycyclic nucleus present in sterols, bile acids, sex hormones, cardiac gJycosides and saponins.
Cyclopentolate hydrochloride: An antichlolinergic used to produce
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