What's the difference between abscess and cavity?

Abscess


Definition:

  • (n.) A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One patient developed a subphrenic abscess postoperatively.
  • (2) In the case presented, overdistension of a jejunostomy catheter balloon led to intestinal obstruction and pressure necrosis (of the small bowel), with subsequent abscess formation leading to death from septicemia.
  • (3) Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
  • (4) In three of these patients this was associated with the presence of a previously well established abscess cavity.
  • (5) All of the rabbits immunized with FCA developed sterile subcutaneous abscesses.
  • (6) 83 well documented cases of amoebic hepatic abscess, treated in the Philippines between 1967 and 1975, are presented with a view to showing the results of 3 different methods of management and comparing the diagnostic accuracy and overall mortality in 2 separate groups.
  • (7) A series of 241 patients with subphrenic abscess was analysed to seek reasons for the continuing mortality.
  • (8) Perinephric abscess is a rare condition; it may be acute, but can take a chronic and atypical course as a result of incomplete treatment with antibiotics.
  • (9) The authors discuss the results of the diagnosis and treatment of abscesses of the right hepatic lobe which were consequent upon ischemic necrosis; they were encountered after cholecystectomy in 0.15% of cases.
  • (10) We report a rare case of odontogenic abscess, detected while the patient was in the intensive care unit (ICU), which resulted in sepsis and the patient's death due to mediastinitis, skull osteomyelitis, and deep neck cellulitis.
  • (11) A review of 20 cases of pyogenic liver abscesses seen from 1971 through 1976 is presented.
  • (12) Therefore, two-dimensional echocardiographic findings in 22 patients with perivalvular abscess found at surgery or necropsy were compared with those in 24 patients without abscess in a retrospective but blinded study.
  • (13) A case of multiple, subcutaneous, neutrophilic abscesses due to T. rubrum in an immunosuppressed renal allograft recipient is described.
  • (14) A case of tricuspid valve endocarditis with spinal epidural abscess caused by Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans is reported in a 74-year-old male with an endocardial pacemaker.
  • (15) Once a liver abscess as a sequel to amebic dysentery was diagnosed and once a megaloplastic anemia with symptoms of a funicular myelopathy following a vitamin B12 deficiency syndrome.
  • (16) Two-thirds of the respiratory infections occurred in the first 3 postoperative months and were generally localized processes (focal pneumonitis, nodule(s), abscess, or empyema).
  • (17) Abscesses were pyogenic in four of the patients and amebic in one.
  • (18) Three patients recovered from their operations, and the other two, both with endocarditis, died postoperatively from causes unrelated to splenic abscess and splenectomy.
  • (19) As with abdominal abscess drainage, a preexisting fistula may be opacified only after several days of catheter drainage and cannot be predicted at the time of initial aspiration.
  • (20) Abdominal computed tomography (CT) scan showed a cystic suprarenal mass that was surgically explored and found to be a retroperitoneal Salmonella abscess.

Cavity


Definition:

  • (n.) Hollowness.
  • (n.) A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The content of the cavities was not stained by any of the immunocytochemical reactions applied.
  • (2) Membranes of this material were filled with islets of Langerhans and implanted in the peritoneal cavity of rats.
  • (3) In three of these patients this was associated with the presence of a previously well established abscess cavity.
  • (4) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
  • (5) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
  • (6) In the 12 prognostically most favourable ears the cavity was repneumatized.
  • (7) Scintigraphic pictures of the uterine cavity and oviducts were obtained with a Jumbo Toshiba gamma-camera; they were subsequently analysed by an Informatek SIMIS-3 data processing system.
  • (8) The cercaria, microcercous in type, is liberated and actively penetrates a second terrestrial pulmonate where development to the free metacercarial stage takes place in the pericardial cavity.
  • (9) A new technique to obliterate the mastoid volume or to reduce an old cavity by means of hydroxyapatite granulate is presented.
  • (10) In general, air from the mediastinum far more often enters the left pleural cavity than the right one.
  • (11) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
  • (12) The rational surgical methods of treatment in 85 patients with suppurative hepatic echinococcosis penetrating into the abdomen cavity are presented.
  • (13) Finally, carcinoma of the oral cavity in India can be said to be at least two diseases.
  • (14) A pilot study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of gas in the puerperal endometrial cavity and to determine whether this finding has any relationship to the mode of delivery or to the development of puerperal endometritis.
  • (15) The authors present a quite unused technique that helps to simplify the cavity preparation in Operative Dentistry.
  • (16) In several eyes, apparent intraretinal blood-filled cavities were seen acutely in the macular region and elsewhere.
  • (17) These views are very practical for inferior synovial cavity arthrograms performed in the dental operatory since panoramic radiographic machines have become common in modern dental practices.
  • (18) Aspergillomas generally arise from saprophytic colonization of a pre-existing pulmonary cavity with Aspergillus, and may be complicated by life-threatening hemoptosis.
  • (19) Failues of PAFD occurred primarily with the presence of phlegmonous collections and cavities with fistulous connection to bowel.
  • (20) n. from the body cavity of Scomber scombrus from the Indian ocean is described.