Letter: c

The principal protein of cows milk; an intact protein polymer often found in tube feeding formulas.

Cheese-like. Caseous necrosis describes a form of biological tissue death, caseous meaning it has a cheese-like appearance. The dead tissue appears as a soft and white proteinaceous dead cell mass.

Computerized Axial Tomography

A destructive process where a complex substance (tissue) is metabolically converted by living cells into smaller compounds. The opposite of anabolism.

A small, thin tube. May refer to a tube used during a cardiac catheterization procedure to inject dye, obtain blood samples, and measure pressures inside the heart. Catheter placed in a vein provides a pathway for giving drugs, nutrients, fluids, or blood products. Samples of blood can also be withdrawn through the catheter. May also refer to a tube used to help drain the bladder (often referred to as a Foley catheter).

Differ from each other by identifiable characteristics. For example, the new 027 strain produces a higher volume of toxins, is more virulent and generates more spores than older C. difficile strains. Strains 017 and 078, which appeared near the same time as 027 are more virulent than older strains, but not at the extreme level experienced with 027.

Coronary Artery Bypass Graft

A general weight loss and wasting usually due to a chronic disease or emotional disturbance.

Computer-Assisted Instruction

A common mold-release agent that facilitates the release of gloves from their hand shaped production molds (formers). The calcium carbonate may or may not be removed. If left on the glove, there may be interferences with laboratory tests and potentially cause patient and wearer related problems (e.g. skin irritation, granulomas)