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conceive become pregnant conjunctiva a transparent membrane covering the eyeball and under surface of the eyelid consciousness an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation contour any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) contraception birth control by the use of devices (diaphragm or intrauterine device or condom) or drugs or surgery contraindication (medicine) a reason that makes it inadvisable to prescribe a particular drug or employ a particular procedure or treatment contusion an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration convalescent hospital not custodial care. midrange facilities provides nonacute care for persons recovering from acute illness or injury, conversant familiar with; having knowledge of copious affording an abundant supply coronary obstruction of blood flow in a coronary artery by a blood clot (thrombus) costal of or relating to or near a rib costovertebral PERTAINING TO THE RIBS AND BACKBONE cranial pertaining to the skull craniomalacia Softening of the skull creatine an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine creatinine waste product of muscle metabolism, filtered out of the blood by the kidneys and excreted in urine crepitus Crackling sound produced when ends of bone rub against each other or against roughened cartilage. crescent any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters crucial of extreme importance culture and sensitivity a lab test that grows a colony of bacteria removed from an infected area in order to identify the specific infecting bacteria and then determine its sensitivity to a variety of antibiotics cul-de-sac (n.) a blind alley or dead-end street; any situation in which further progress is impossible; an impasse cumulative increasing by successive addition curettage surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette curettement surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette curvature the rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve cutaneous relating to or existing on or affecting the skin