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Clostridium novyi (medicine) and levator cushion (medicine)


Clostridium novyi (medicine)


Clostridium novyi


A species consisting of three types, A, B, and C; type A, from a case of gaseous gangrene and from human necrotic hepatitis, produces gamma-toxin (a haemolytic lecithinase); B, from black disease (infectious necrotic hepatitis) of sheep, produces beta-toxin (a haemolytic lecithinase); and C, found in bacillary osteomyelitis of water buffaloes, does not produce toxin.

Synonym: Clostridium oedematiens.


levator cushion (medicine)


levator cushion


The bulge in the lateral wall of the nasopharynx, below the opening of the auditory tube, produced by the levator veli palatini muscle.

Synonym: torus levatorius, levator swelling.