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porcelain gallbladder (medicine)


porcelain gallbladder
<radiology> Calcium incrustation of gallbladder wall, 0.6-0.8% of cholecystectomy patients, 80% female, 10-20% develop gallbladder carcinoma, 90% associated with gallstones findings: nonfunctioning gallbladder on oral cholecystogram, highly echogenic shadowing curvilinear sturucture in the gallbladder fossa (Differential diagnosis: stone-filled contracted gall bladder), echogenic gallbladder wall with little acoustic shadowing (Differential diagnosis: emphysematous cholecystitis), scattered irregular clumps of echoes with posterior acoustic shadowing


caprification (iou)



caprification noun. E17.
[Latin caprificatio(n-), from caprificat- pa. ppl stem of caprificare, from caprificus wild fig tree: see -ATION.]
A process of ripening figs by means of punctures produced on the fruit by the action of insects or artificially. E17.
Artificial fertilization. M19.