Chordae Tendineae.  Tendinous cords.

Choroid (Gr. chorion, skin, and eidos, form).  The middle coat of the eyeball.

Chyle (Gr. chulos, juice).  The milk-like fluid formed by the digestion of fatty articles of food in the intestines.

Chyme (Gr. chumos, juice).  The pulpy liquid formed by digestion in the stomach.

Cilia (pl. of cilium, an eyelash).  Minute hair-like processes found upon the cells of the air passages and other parts.

Ciliary Muscle.  A small muscle of the eye which assists in accommodation.

Circumvallate (Lat. circum, around, and vallum, a rampart).  Surrounded by a rampart, as are certain papillae of the tongue.

Coagulation (Lat. coagulo, to curdle).  Applied to the process by which the blood clots or solidifies.

Cochlea (Lat. cochlea, a snail shell).  The spiral cavity of the internal ear.

Columnae Carneae.  Fleshy projections in the ventricles of the heart.

Commissure (Lat. con, together, and mitto, missum, to put).  A joining or uniting together.

Compress.  A pad or bandage applied directly to an injury to compress it.

Concha (Gr. kogche, a mussel shell).  The shell-shaped portion of the external ear.

Congestion (Lat. con, together, and gero, to bring).  Abnormal gathering of blood in any part of the body.

Conjunctiva (Lat. con, together, and jungo, to join).  A thin layer of mucous membrane which lines the eyelids and covers the front of the eyeball, thus joining the latter to the lids.

Connective Tissue.  The network which connects the minute parts of most of the structures of the body.

Constipation (Lat. con, together, and stipo, to crowd close).  Costiveness.

Consumption (Lat. consumo, to consume).  A disease of the lungs, attended with fever and cough, and causing a decay of the bodily powers.  The medical name is phthisis.

Contagion (Lat. con, with, and tango or tago, to touch).  The communication of disease by contact, or by the inhalation of the effluvia of a sick person.

Contractility (Lat. con, together, and traho, to draw).  The property of a muscle which enables it to contract, or draw its extremities closer together.

Convolutions (Lat. con, together, and volvo, to roll).  The tortuous foldings of the external surface of the brain.

Convulsion (Lat. convello, to pull together).  A more or less violent agitation of the limbs or body.

Cooerdination.  The manner in which several different organs of the body are brought into such relations with one another that their functions are performed in harmony.

Coracoid (Gr. koraxi, a crow, eidos, form).  Shaped like a crow’s beak.  Cornea (Lat. cornu, a horn).  The transparent horn-like substance which covers a part of the front of the eyeball.