(n.) The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.
(n.) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.
Example Sentences:
(1) Findings on plain X-ray of the abdomen, using the usual parameters of psoas and kidney shadows in the Nigerian, indicate that the two communities studied are similar but urinary calculi and urinary tract distortion are significantly more prominent in the community with the higher endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis.
(2) The rational surgical methods of treatment in 85 patients with suppurative hepatic echinococcosis penetrating into the abdomen cavity are presented.
(3) Chest and biceps circumferences increased 4.2% and 3.1%, respectively; abdomen and thigh circumferences did not significantly change; body fat decreased 16.8%; and body mass increased 2.3%.
(4) Duplex and color Doppler sonography have become indispensable for evaluating the major vessels of the abdomen.
(5) A 33-year old woman was admitted with high fever and excruciating pain in the lower right abdomen that had lasted on and off for months.
(6) In conclusion, a zipper technique has been outlined that allows effective continuing drainage of the septic abdomen, permits early diagnosis of organ damage, is rapid and cost effective, minimizes ventilator dependency and gastrointestinal complications, is well tolerated by the patients, and has produced a modest 65 per cent survival rate in the first 34 critically ill patients in whom it was used.
(7) As for possible causes of reduced Leydig cell activity it was investigated whether the testis was (1) hypoplastic; (2) abnormally fused with the epididymis; (3) located in the abdomen; (4) or UT was associated with hypospadias.
(8) The clinical presentation is that of an acute abdomen.
(9) The rapidity of obtaining the results (within one hour), the complete absence of untoward reactions to the radiopharmaceuticals, the much lower frequency of subtle or indeterminate results, the ability to render useful information in the presence of moderate jaundice and the lack of interference from overlying intestinal contents establishes these radionuclide agents as superior to both radiographic oral and intravenous cholangiography in the investigation of the acute abdomen.
(10) Regarding space occupying lesions in the abdomen angiography is an aid in diagnosis and differential diagnosis and provides information on the curability.
(11) The characteristic signs and symptoms represent the triad of a pulsatile mass in the upper part of the abdomen, intermittent hemorrhage in the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract and severe epigastralgia not relieved by antacids.
(12) There are two sites for transplantation, which are the submamma and the upper lateral region of abdomen.
(13) We analysed the plain abdomen and chest films of 62 patients with this disease.
(14) Contrast media in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the abdomen and pelvis are applied for various purposes; different substances and forms of application must be distinguished.
(15) In all series of experiments multidimensional statistical analysis allowed one to reveal the effect conducive to a relative decrease in the blood content in the brain, myocardium, lungs, liver and to its increase in some abdominal organs, skin, muscle and bone tissues of the extremities, abdomen and pelvis.
(16) The lesion has occurred in many sites, but is commonest in the thorax (60%), abdomen (11%), neck (14%), and axilla (4%).
(17) The remaining patients had vague pains, tender abdomen, constitutional symptoms or a mass in the abdomen.
(18) In 25 patients, small cell lung cancer was staged prospectively with both conventional staging and a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging protocol that included 1.5-T MR imaging of the pelvis, abdomen, spine, and brain.
(19) Laparoscopy with artificial ascites creates a larger space between organs and makes an accurate inspection of the entire intra-peritoneal abdomen possible.
(20) No evidence of lymphomatous involvement of lymph nodes and non-lymphoid organs was found by CT scan, ultrasound echography and gallium scan of the chest and abdomen.
Epigastrium
Definition:
(n.) The upper part of the abdomen.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fulminant collection of pseudopolyps was palable in the epigastrium on physical exam and caused a partial obstruction to the retrograde flow of barium.
(2) The carrier state was accompanied by intermittent pain in the epigastrium, diminished appetite, diarrhoea etc.
(3) A 45-year-old man was reported who experienced rapid rhythmic nodding of his head and equally rapid contractions in his epigastrium, which participated by certain psychic situations.
(4) The patient, a 33 year old male, had suffered from swelling of the chest, neck and face for 4 months; palpitation, chest and epigastrium pain, cough and yellowish sputum for 10 days before admission into our hospital.
(5) Within a short time the pain shifted to the right epigastrium, became more intensive (with deterioration during inspiration) and concurrently the patient developed marked muscular tension in the whole right upper abdominal quadrant.
(6) Five, however, later had return of pain, but only to the right epigastrium.
(7) A palpable, hard, uneven mass was found in the epigastrium.
(8) Whole-body scanning, carried out in connection with administration of radioiodine for ablation of remaining thyroid tissue, disclosed an unexpected area of increased uptake in the epigastrium.
(9) For several weeks a 27-year-old man had experienced a pressure sensation and noticed a spherical area of resistance in the epigastrium.
(10) A longitudinal scan from an intercostal space in the mid-axillary line and a right-anterior-transverse scan from the intercostal space were useful in displaying the right adrenal, and an anterior-transverse scan from the epigastrium was also useful in showing the left adrenal.
(11) The majority of bruitswere in the epigastrium, mainly because of a high incidence of celiac artery stenosis usually of the extrinsic compression type.
(12) Bleeding from sinuses in the chest wall or epigastrium or repeated hemoptysis were important clinical clues.
(13) A significant disproportionate effect on the epigastrium, predicted by the choice of acupuncture points, was found for tolerances but not thresholds.
(14) US found dilated intestinal loops and a septate cystic mass in epigastrium.
(15) The impedance of the epigastrium to a 4 mA, 100 KHz AC current increases while liquids of low electrical conductivity are being drunk.
(16) In the superior mesenteric artery syndrome which may complicate extensive burns, a systolic murmur may be heard in the epigastrium when the patient is supine but not when he is prone.
(17) Typical symptoms are acute gastro-intestinal bleeding, chronic gastric pain and palpable tumour in the epigastrium with relatively good general condition.
(18) Out of oxyfedrine++ side effects known up to the present (mild agitation, stupor, heat sensation, pains in the epigastrium++, skin allergy) 24 cases of ageusia appearing usually after 4 weeks of treatment with oxyfedrine++ were presented.
(19) The authors found with neonatal ultrasound screening a cyst in the epigastrium sized 45 x 18 x 36 mm.
(20) On grounds of the case history, the presence of a murmur in the epigastrium, and symptoms of involvement of other arteries it may be assumed that the abdominal abnormalities are of vascular origin.