(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.
Rectus
Definition:
(n.) A straight muscle; as, the recti of the eye.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors propose three regular procedures with which they are experienced: repair with a large retromuscular nonabsorbable synthetic tulle prosthesis for extensive epigastric eventrations, fillup aponeuroplasty using the sheath of the rectus abdominis associated with a premuscular patch in case of diastasis or of multiple superimposed orifices and suture associated with a small retromuscular auxiliary patch to treat small incisional hernias.
(2) This study demonstrates the termination of ascending tract of Deiters' (ATD) axons on ipsilateral medial rectus (MR) motoneurons.
(3) At a concentration of 10 microM, tetraamine 4 did not affect histamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors of guinea pig ileum or alpha-adrenoreceptors of guinea pig atria whereas it inhibited postsynaptic alpha-adrenoreceptors of rat vas deferens with a -log K value of 5.23 and nicotinic receptors of frog rectus abdominis with an IC50 value of 0.23 microM.
(4) Bimedial rectus recession with measurement from the limbus was combined with conjuctival recession 85 children undergoing surgery for esotropia.
(5) When maximal isometric trunk flexor or extensor torques were imposed upon a maximal Valsalva manoeuvre, transversus abdominis activity and intra-abdominal pressure remained comparable within and across conditions, whereas obliquus internus, obliquus externus and rectus abdominis activities either markedly increased (flexion) or decreased (extension).
(6) In the same subject, also the ratio between the number of the muscle spindles found in m. rectus dorsalis and that of m. levator palpebrae superioris was examined.
(7) The most commonly used techniques, in our institution, are tissue expansion, use of the latissimus dorsi flap, and use of the transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous (TRAM) flap.
(8) Practoloo, USVC 6524 and Inpea produced a dose related inhibition of acetylcholine induced contractions of rectus abdominis muscle of frog.
(9) The effect of partial resection of the gyrus rectus during the unilateral pterional approach on surgical outcome was evaluated in 194 consecutive patients with ruptured anterior communicating artery aneurysms.
(10) Collection of EMGs of soleus, lateral gastrocnemius, vastus medialis and rectus femoris lasted for 200 msec after stimulation, which was triggered when the pedal was 56 degrees beyond top-dead-center.
(11) However, during both hypercapnia and PEEP, length changes of the external oblique were significantly greater than those of the rectus abdominis.
(12) Frequently, the medial rectus muscle must be recessed 10 nm or more and the lateral rectus muscle resected 10 nm or more to achieve this result.
(13) Parenteral nutrition with 50% triacetin and 50% LCTs promoted a positive nitrogen balance similar to that of 100% LCTs, increased protein in rectus muscle and liver, smaller and more numerous mucosal cells in jejunum and colon, and increased colonic mucosal weight compared with the other groups.
(14) The effects of age and endurance training on muscle fibre characteristics were studied in a slow (m. soleus, MS) and in a fast (m. rectus femoris, MRF) skeletal muscle.
(15) Fibers originating from riMLF DMLBs projected, usually ipsilaterally, to the NIC as well as in the inferior rectus and the superior oblique subdivisions of the oculomotor complex.
(16) We propose inadvertent excision of the lateral portion of the inferior rectus muscle during inferior oblique myectomy as the probable mechanism of inferior rectus injury.
(17) Essentially there is no influence of the HCN stimulation on bilateral superior rectus (SR), inferior rectus (IR), superior oblique (SO) and inferior oblique (IO) motoneurons.
(18) The rectus abdominis electromyogram recorded expiratory muscle activity during the expiratory pause; vagotomy markedly reduced it in upright dogs and it was undetectable in supine dogs.
(19) Brief periods of a rapid-eye-movement (REM) state characterized by phasic lateral rectus and diaphragmatic activity and absence of nuchal activity were recognized.
(20) The rectus abdominis musculocutaneous free flap, based on the deep inferior epigastric artery and vein, has been used widely in reconstruction of the breast and extremities.