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choledochal cyst (medicine)


choledochal cyst
<radiology> Segmental dilatation of common bile duct, F more than > M, 60% under 10 years of age, classic clinical triad in less than 40%, jaundice, RUQ mass, abdominal pain, choledochocele (type 3 cyst): bloops into duodenum, 8% associated with Caroli disease


xanthic (iou)



xanthic adjective. E19.
[from XANTH(O- + -IC.]
Chemistry. Orig., designating, pertaining to, or producing any of various yellow compounds, including xanthine. Now only spec., designating or derived from a xanthic acid (see below). E19.
xanthic acid an organic acid containing sulphur, C2H5OCSSH, many of whose salts are yellow; any of the colourless reactive acids of the General formula ROCSSH or ROCSSR' (where R and R' are alkyl or similar groups). xanthic oxide (now rare or obsolete) [from its yellow compound with nitric acid] = XANTHINE.
Yellow, yellowish. rare. M19.