Crossword clues for celiac
celiac
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Celiac \Ce"li*ac\, a. (Anat.) See C[oe]llac.
Coeliac \C[oe]"li*ac\, Celiac \Ce"li*ac\, a. [L. coeliacus, Gr. ?, fr. ? belly, fr. koi^los hollow.] Relating to the abdomen, or to the cavity of the abdomen.
C[oe]liac artery (Anat.), the artery which issues from the aorta just below the diaphragm; -- called also c[oe]liac axis.
C[oe]liac flux, C[oe]liac passion (Med.), a chronic flux or diarrhea of undigested food.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context US anatomy English) Of, pertaining to or located within the abdomen or abdominal cavity. 2 (context US medicine English) Of or pertaining to celiac disease. n. Someone who has celiac disease.
WordNet
adj. belonging to or prescribed for celiac disease; "a celiac diet"
of or in or belonging to the cavity of the abdomen [syn: coeliac]
Wikipedia
Celiac (or coeliac in British English) may refer to:
- Coeliac disease
- Celiac artery
- Celiac lymph nodes
- Celiac plexus
Usage examples of "celiac".
Under local anesthetic, a thin, flexible catheter was passed up the femoral artery in the leg, to the aorta, and finally to the celiac axis, a network of arteries coming off the aorta to supply blood to all the upper-abdominal organs.
Specialized procedures such as celiac angiography could not be done, and further work on the patient was postponed until Monday.
Warren reported a case of the abdominal aorta which commenced at the origin of the celiac axis and passed on to the surfaces of the psoas and iliac muscles, descending to the middle of the thigh The total length of the aneurysm was 19 inches, and it measured 18 inches in circumference.
The slave seed had sprouted in seconds, filaments wriggling like screwworms into his celiac plexus.
I don't even know now who it was, but he insisted on a bowel biopsy and that's when they diagnosed the celiac disease.
Under local anesthetic, a thin, flexible catheter was passed up the femoral artery in the leg, to the aorta, and finally to the celiac axis, a network of arteries coming off the aorta to supply blood to all the upper-abdominal organs.
They mostly had food allergies and intolerances like celiac disease-an intolerance for wheat, barley, and other gluten-containing grains.
The map had routed him out of this pressed tunnel through the inferior vena cava to the right atrium and thence through the right ventricle, the pulmonary arteries, through the valves, to the lungs, the pulmonary veins, crossover to the left side of the heart (left atrium, left ventricle), the aorta--bypassing the three coronary arteries above the aortic valves--and down over the arch of the aorta--bypassing the carotid and other arteries--to the celiac trunk, where the arteries split in a confusing array: the gastroduodenal to the stomach, the hepatic to the liver, the splenic to the spleen.