(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.
Tumor
Definition:
(n.) A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm.
(n.) Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(2) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
(3) Competition with the labelled 10B12 MAb for binding to the purified antigen was demonstrated in sera of tumor-bearing and immune rats.
(4) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(5) Tumor shrinkage was documented by A-scan ultrasonography in all but one patient.
(6) The clinical and radiologic characteristics of this unusual tumor are discussed.
(7) In spite of dense lymphocytic infiltration only 3% of the tumor infiltrating lymphocytes exhibit the activation marker CD 25.
(8) The histological pattern of tumor was identified in 28 cases.
(9) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
(10) Among the groups investigated, the subjects with gastric tumors presented the greatest values.
(11) The tumors were identified by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.
(12) It was concluded that the significant factors affecting outcome are tumor cell type and presence or absence or mitoses.
(13) When TSLP was pretreated with TF5 in vitro, the most restorative effects on the decreased MLR were found in hyperplastic stage and the effects were becoming less with the advance of tumor developments.
(14) In all groups, there was a fall in labeling index with time reflecting increasing tumor size.
(15) Oral administration in domestic cats causes malignant hepatomas and tumors of the esophagus and kidney.
(16) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
(17) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
(18) The HTCA is promising as a potential tool for studying the biology of tumors.
(19) The increase in red blood cell mass was associated with an elevation in erythropoietic stimulatory activity in serum, pleural fluid, and tumor-cyst fluid as determined by the exhypoxic polycythemic mouse assay.
(20) In view of reports of the reduction of telomeric repeats in human malignant tumors, we measured the lengths of telomeric repeats in 55 primary neuroblastomas.