See Also: Habronema megastoma(medicine)
Habronema(medicine)
Habronema majus(medicine)
Habronema microstoma(medicine)
Habronema muscae(medicine)

cerclage (iou) and Habronema megastoma (medicine)


cerclage (iou)



cerclage noun. Also circlage. M20.
[French, lit. 'encirclement'.]
Medicine. The use of a ring or loop to bind together the ends of an obliquely fractured bone or encircle the os of an incompetent cervix.

Habronema megastoma (medicine)


Habronema megastoma


A species that causes tumours in gastric mucosa containing large numbers of the small nematodes; the larvae cause cutaneous habronaemiasis; the intermediate host is the common housefly, Musca domestica.