| celiac | (adj) belonging to or prescribed for celiac disease, Example: a celiac diet |
| celiac disease | (n) a disorder in children and adults; inability to tolerate wheat protein (gluten); symptoms include foul-smelling diarrhea and emaciation; often accompanied by lactose intolerance |
| celiac trunk | (n) an artery that originates from the abdominal aorta just below the diaphragm and branches into the left gastric artery and the common hepatic artery and the splenic artery, Syn. truncus celiacus, celiac artery, arteria celiaca |
| encelia | (n) genus of shrubs of southwestern United States and Mexico: brittlebush, Syn. genus Encelia |
| genus phacelia | (n) American herbs with usually pinnatifid leaves and blue or purple or white flowers in scorpioid cymes |
| mycelia sterilia | (n) order of imperfect fungi having no known spore stage, Syn. order Mycelia Sterilia |
| brittlebush | (n) fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine, Syn. incienso, Encelia farinosa, brittle bush |
| california bluebell | (n) desert plant of southern California with blue or violet tubular flowers in terminal racemes, Syn. whitlavia, Phacelia whitlavia, Phacelia minor |
| california bluebell | (n) annual of southern California with intricately branched stems and lax cymes of aromatic deep blue bell-shaped flowers, Syn. Phacelia campanularia |
| coeliac | (adj) of or in or belonging to the cavity of the abdomen, Syn. celiac |
| downy wood mint | (n) a variety of wood mint, Syn. Blephilia celiata |
| fiddleneck | (n) hairy annual of California to Mexico with crowded cymes of small blue to lilac or mauve flowers, Syn. Phacelia tanacetifolia |
| scorpionweed | (n) any plant of the genus Phacelia, Syn. phacelia, scorpion weed |
| solar plexus | (n) a large plexus of sympathetic nerves in the abdomen behind the stomach, Syn. abdominal nerve plexus, coeliac plexus, plexus celiacus |
