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CLUE [2 records]

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Record 1 2023-03-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
  • Bacterial Diseases
  • Genitourinary Tract
DEF

... epithelial [cell of the vagina that has] bacteria adhering to [its] surface and sometimes obscuring [its] borders[, and that indicates] bacterial vaginosis.

CONT

Clue cells are squamous vaginal epithelial cells found in vaginal fluid when BV [bacterial vaginosis] is present. The cells are covered with numerous bacteria, giving them a stippled or granular appearance, and their borders are obscured or fuzzy because of the adherence of numerous rods or cocci. ... a diagnosis of BV is established when at least 20% of the detectable epithelial cells are clue cells.

OBS

clue cell: term usually used in the plural.

OBS

clue cell: This term appears under the entry "bacterial vaginosis" in the Dictionary of microbiology and molecular biology.

Key term(s)
  • clue cells

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
  • Maladies bactériennes
  • Appareil génito-urinaire
CONT

Les critères diagnostiques de la vaginose bactérienne sont les suivants : existence de sécrétions vaginales homogènes; pH [supérieur à] 5; test à la potasse («sniff-test») positif; présence de «clue cells». [...] Les clue cells sont des cellules épithéliales desquamées dont la surface est recouverte de bactéries dont l'abondance estompe les contours de la cellule. Le cytoplasme prend un aspect clouté parfois difficile à observer. Les clue cells sont bien visibles lors de l'examen à fort grossissement (objectif x 40) des sécrétions vaginales en solution saline.

OBS

cellule indicatrice; clue cell : termes habituellement utilisés au pluriel.

Spanish

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Record 2 2021-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

... a steep-sided valley that cuts transversely across a limestone ridge.

OBS

[A cluse] may have been formed by an antecedent river. It is commonly found in the Jura and the limestone ridges of the Savoy Alps.

OBS

cluse: term of French origin.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Vallée, gorge étroite traversant un chaînon, le plus souvent calcaire, perpendiculairement à son grand axe.

OBS

Usité dans les dialectes du Jura, des Préalpes et de Provence, le terme a pris un sens géographique général pour désigner une vallée, une coupure traversant une structure anticlinale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Geomorfología y geomorfogénesis
DEF

Valle corto y estrecho, de paredes abruptas, que pone en comunicación dos depresiones.

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