What's the difference between abdominothoracic and thorax?
Abdominothoracic
Definition:
(a.) Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.
Example Sentences:
(1) The literature on the subject was therefore examined with respect to abdominothoracic diffusion of the pancreatic excretion.
(2) The relationship between Pdi and Edi depends primarily on abdominothoracic configuration rather than lung volume.
(3) The literature contains only sporadic examples and some remarks and deductions are made with regard to the controversial ways of amylasic abdominothoracic transfer.
(4) The diaphragm was assumed to contract isometrically when subjects performed inspiratory efforts against a closed airway at specified abdominothoracic configurations, increasing Edi and Pdi while holding lung volume and rib case and abdominal AP diameters constant.
(5) Reduction of the time needed for the operation, determination of the resectability of the esophageal tumor before mobilization of the stomach are obvious advantages of the abdominothoracic approach.
(6) Of these, 146 underwent type I radical operation (transthoracic resection) with eight (5.5%) operative deaths; 344 underwent type II radical operation (abdominothoracic resection) with 42(12.2%) operative deaths; and 37 with Stage IV lesions underwent extended operation or palliative operation with 4(10.8%) operative deaths.
(7) Computed tomography of the abdominothoracic region without sagittal reconstruction may yield an image that could be mistaken for a pseudohepatic mass.
(8) Abdominothoracic motion was monitored with magnetometers and these signals calibrated by isovolume lines either immediately before going to sleep, or if there was movement, on awakening.
(9) The nonobligatory cervical phase constitutes a useful safety approach when frozen section biopsy of the residual esophagus yields positive specimens, if a conventional Lewis-Santy right abdominothoracic procedure has been chosen.
(10) Body ventilator, wrap, pneumo-belt were chosen in function of abdominothoracic morphology.
(11) In a randomized animal study we compared endoscopic versus blunt dissection and versus abdominothoracic resection.
(12) In contrast, agreement was seen in only 7 of 13 cases (with 6 false negative findings) after abdominothoracic resection of oesophageal carcinomas.
(13) At the same time the abdominothoracic wounds are very dangerous.
(14) In-hospital mortality was 9.6% in 3000 abdominal and abdominothoracic operations carried out by me or under my care.
(15) The specific operations with a curative objective performed upon the esophageal carcinoma patients were abdominothoracic esophageal resection with upward displacement of the stomach (n = 16) or interposition of a colonic segment (n = 2), whereas in the patients with carcinoma of the cardia, proximal resection was performed in 13 cases, either subtotally or as a cardiofundectomy, and total gastrectomy in 8 cases.
(16) A technique of oesophagogastrectomy is described employing a simultaneous right abdominothoracic approach without division of either costal margin or diaphragm.
(17) The use of low doses of heparin given s.c. (5000 units, 8 hourly)) has been shown in prospective clinical trials to be effective prophylaxis against venous thrombosis and nonfatal and fatal pulmonary embolism in patients undergoing general abdominothoracic surgery, without producing dangerous bleeding.
(18) Heparin in low doses can at present be recommended as an effective agent in the prevention of deep venous thrombosis in patients over the age of 40 years who are undergoing a major abdominothoracic or gynecologic operation.
(19) Maintaining the costal margin and diaphragm reduces the pulmonary problems associated with a conventional abdominothoracic incision.
(20) Presently available data indicate that low-dose heparin prophylaxis will significantly diminish massive postoperative pulmonary emboli in patients more than 40 years of age subjected to major elective abdominothoracic surgery.
Thorax
Definition:
(n.) The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebrae, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest.
(n.) The middle region of the body of an insect, or that region which bears the legs and wings. It is composed of three united somites, each of which is composed of several distinct parts. See Illust. in Appendix. and Illust. of Coleoptera.
(n.) The second, or middle, region of the body of a crustacean, arachnid, or other articulate animal. In the case of decapod Crustacea, some writers include under the term thorax only the three segments bearing the maxillipeds; others include also the five segments bearing the legs. See Illust. in Appendix.
(n.) A breastplate, cuirass, or corselet; especially, the breastplate worn by the ancient Greeks.
Example Sentences:
(1) In April 1986, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the thorax and shoulder girdle was presented to the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anatomists.
(2) We measured the steady-state volumes of distribution for radioactive chloride, sucrose, and albumin in the lung of six anesthetized, spen-thorax sheep.
(3) ELS (or accessory lungs) is a rare congenital abnormality defined as a lung segment outside a normal lung, usually localized in the left lower thorax.
(4) Respiratory failure, developing 7-9 days after inoculation, was associated with a decrease in lung-thorax compliance determined during artificial ventilation, and an increase in the amount of protein including the specific antibody in lung lavage fluid.
(5) It imitates the conventional percussion massage of the thorax by introducing high-frequency gas oscillations (300 impulses per minute) into the tracheobronchial system.
(6) Radiographs of the thorax were evaluated in 240 patients during the acute phase following a myocardial infarct.
(7) Their medical histories were consulted and further measures were taken such as a radiological thorax study, total IgE, TDI, MDI and HDI RAST, a basal spirometric study and finally a provocation test.
(8) Differential and sucrose gradient centrifugation of honey bee thoraces, disrupted by gentle methods and using mannitol-triethanolamine-EDTA buffer at pH 6.5, showed that in the honey bee thorax 92-94.8% of the trehalase was mitochondrial.
(9) In comparison with untreated controls from the same litters, there was a 4-7-fold enhancement of lung-thorax compliance in all groups of surfactant-treated animals during a 3-h period of artificial ventilation.
(10) The effect of manual percussion of the thorax in nine patients with stable chronic airflow obstruction and excessive tracheobronchial secretion has been studied.
(11) The lesion has occurred in many sites, but is commonest in the thorax (60%), abdomen (11%), neck (14%), and axilla (4%).
(12) The autonomous-visceral pathology observed in cases of cervical injuries can be attributed to the direct effect of the trauma upon the segmental innervation appratus of the heart, diaphragm, thorax.
(13) Patients with massive symptoms and signs indicating abdominal injury should receive high priority in the treatment of the multiple injury patient, second only to injuries to airways and thorax.
(14) Whole iic nerves of the rostral thorax (T2-T5) usually discharged during neural inspiration, whereas those of the caudal thorax (T7-T11) were primarily active during neural expiration.
(15) The following advantages must be pointed out in respect of using DLR in thoracic diagnosis in the intensive-care ward: No faulty exposures; the thorax can be x-rayed with the patient recumbent in bed, with lateral take: the image brightness in maintained at a constant level by histogram selection; electronic image processing and storage.
(16) Heart rate (HR), mean arterial blood pressure (MAP), pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP), cardiac output (CO), cardiac index (CI), systemic vascular resistance (SVR), and arteriovenous oxygen content difference (C[a-v]O2) were measured or calculated each time the surgeon's hand entered the thorax to dissect the esophagus.
(17) In both these cases of blunt injury to the thorax, careful examination of the patients resulted in early diagnosis and surgery.
(18) HRCT scans at the apex of the thorax in all nine patients scanned at this level showed that extrapleural fat with interspersed vessels accounted for most of the plain radiographic opacity.
(19) A radiograph of the thorax showed features of peribronchitis and infiltration in both lungs.
(20) The ultrasonic diagnosis as a method of recognising postoperative subprosthetical breast pathological changes (respectively of simulated tumor recidivs and implanted breast prosthesis) located near the thorax and therefore difficult to detect by external palpation and mammography examination have been described in a follow-up study, and further possibilities of application suggested.