(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.
Mesentery
Definition:
(n.) The membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum and ilium, the other mesenteries being called mesocaecum, mesocolon, mesorectum, etc.
(n.) One of the vertical muscular radiating partitions which divide the body cavity of Anthozoa into chambers.
Example Sentences:
(1) of PLA2 caused marked degranulation of mast cells in the rat mesentery which was facilitated by addition of calcium ion (10 mM) but antagonized by pretreating with three antiinflammatory agents.
(2) Previous histological evidence of the uptake of these particles and their absorption across the gastrointestinal tract and passage via the mesentery lymph supply and lymph nodes to the liver and spleen was confirmed by analysis of tissues for the presence of polystyrene by gel permeation chromatography.
(3) The greatest problems appeared in diagnosing thrombosis of mesenterial vessels and acute appendicitis in cases with the retrocecal disposition of the vermiform process.
(4) The islets, 3 000 to 5 000, were transplanted to alloxan diabetic recipients, in a territory, preferentially with portal-hepatic drainage (mesentery and spleen).
(5) As revealed, hypophysectomy and adrenalectomy caused disturbances of vascular permeability in the mesentery.
(6) In numerous points of these plexuses, single adrenergic fibers or polyaxonal structures are observed to issue into nonvascular areas of the mesentery where after repeated dichotomic division they pass into the preterminal and terminal parts.
(7) In addition there was an associated hypertrophy of the lymph nodes in the ileal loop mesentery.
(8) These changes in density are thought to represent diffuse fat edema, most prominently in the mesentery because of portal hypertension.
(9) In the last three patients with unresectable adenocarcinoma of the distal part of the stomach and invasion of the intestinal mesentery, due to foreshortening of the latter, the proximal loop of the intestine would not reach the desired level of the stomach until this maneuver was performed.
(10) Mesenterial fibromatosis, also known as aggressive fibromatosis or desmoid tumor is generally associated with Gardner's syndrome but otherwise an extremely rare disease.
(11) Dose-dependent vasodilator responses to dopamine, isoprenaline, noradrenaline, 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine (IBMX) and sodium nitroprusside were obtained in isolated perfused mesentery preparations, taken from reserpine-treated rats of different ages.
(12) These cells were found in the intestitial tissue of the dorsal mesentery or in the genital ridge.
(13) We now show that the protection afforded by this immunization protocol is systemic and that animals can be protected against tumor growth in the cecum, lymphatics of the mesentery, liver and lung.
(14) PGCs were mainly found in the hindgut epithelium, some at the stage of separation from the endoderm, and others in migration through the mesenchyme of the dorsal mesentery between the primitive intestinal wall and the coelomic epithelium, including the coelomic angle.
(15) In those instances, the osmium-amine reacted not only in the outer surface of the mesentery, but also penetrated with no visible reaction all the way to the connective tissue where it was detected in the elastic layer.
(16) The perivascular protein contents, which corresponds besides arterioles to 40% and besides venules to 59% in comparison to the intravascular blood plasma, decreased in a comparison group under the osmotic influence of the perfusion liquid on the mesenterial plate.
(17) At operation, two localized tumors were found, one located in the jejunum approximately 20 cm distal to the ligament of Treitz, accompanied by perforation and another approximately 20 cm distal to the above lesion in the mesentery.
(18) It appears that in rat mesentery, impulses travelling via cholinergic, parasympathetic fibers innervating mast cells, cause mast cell swelling.
(19) In this situation, intense vascular spasm was seen and any light transmitted through the colon which fell on the small bowel mesentery caused a lethal ischaemic necrosis.
(20) They are formed on acetate-cellulose (AC) membranes implanted into the mice peritoneal cavity and into the mesentery after radiation and intraperitoneal injection of a donor's bone marrow.