(n.) The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries or veins.
Example Sentences:
(1) A certain amount of relaparotomies after small bowel surgery is caused by technical failures, such as the technique of suturing the anastomosis and the kind of re-establishing the continuity of the bowel.
(2) Experiments have been performed using CO2 laser-assisted microvascular anastomoses, and they demonstrated the following features, in comparison with conventional anastomoses: ease in technique; less time consumption; less tissue inflammation; early wound healing; equivalency of patency rate and inner pressure tolerance; but only about 50 percent of the tensile strength of manual-suture anastomosis.
(3) Donor organs were anastomosed parallel to the recipient's heart and right lung, and the superior vena cava inflow was directed into the transplanted heart-left lung block after ligation of the recipient's superior vena cava proximal to the caval anastomosis.
(4) Doppler echocardiographic examination at the site of the pulmonary anastomosis revealed an instantaneous gradient less than 20 mmHg in 9 patients (45%), a gradient between 20 and 60 mmHg in 9 patients (45) and a gradient greater than 60 mmHg in two patients (10%).
(5) In one such case he performed a double pharyngocolic anastomosis in "Y".
(6) To decrease the incidence of postoperative leakage, we used the Gambee's method of single layer anastomosis in cervical esophagogastrostomy for carcinoma of the hypopharynx and superior segment of the esophagus.
(7) In fact the deep femoral artery represents an exceptional and privileged route for anastomosis that is capable of replacing almost perfectly an obstructed superficial femoral artery and also in a more limited way femoro-popliteal arteries with extensive obstructions.
(8) Assessment of mucosal conditions, especially in the anastomosis range, is facilitated, thus offering a chance to improve the method of diagnosis.
(9) Type II had the anastomosis too high on the gastric pouch, type III was due to an obstructing marginal ulcer, and type IV had a pouchlike deformity develop in the upper jejunum at the anastomosis that gradually compressed the outflow tract.
(10) Two normal variants that could be confused with abnormalities were noted: (a) the featureless appearance of the duodenal bulb may be mistaken for extravasation, and (b) contrastmaterial filling of the proximal jejunal loop at an end-to-end anastomosis with retained invaginated pancreas may be mistaken for intussusception.
(11) A new surgical technique for peripheral lymphatic-venous anastomosis is presented.
(12) The chapters deal with general preliminaries and indications for surgery, the selection of bypass material, surgical instruments for coronary opertaions, the methods of extracorporeal circulation, the distal coronary anastomosis, the proximal aortal anastomosis, intraoperative monitoring of results, intra- and postoperative myocardinal infarction, the fate of venous bypass grafts, operative treatment of the ruptured ventricular septum and papillary muscle, and ventricular aneurysmectomy.
(13) Study of the late-term results of the operation showed that the postoperative weight loss depends on the initial weight excess and the diameter of the anastomosis formed between the proximal and distal parts of the stomach.
(14) In most cases with a ring anastomosis the clinical course was uneventful.
(15) The low incidence of these complications (7.8%) is largely due to the systematic resort to the Leadbetter-Politano ureterovesical anastomosis, except in one case (uretero-ureterostomy due to the shortness of the graft).
(16) Adhesions were formed at the site of the anastomosis to such an extent as to jeopardize the proper position of the bowel.
(17) Of eleven infants having delayed anastomosis eight received antibiotics.
(18) The new operative technique was used for anastomosis of previously ligated fallopian tubes in 14 cases and for unilateral midsegmental inflammatory tubal obstruction (previously left salpingectomy due to an ectopic pregnancy) in 1 case.
(19) This anastomosis cross Aorta and A. mesenterica inferior ventral, combines both inferior Cavae and must be interpreted as a second inferior Anastomosis intersubcardinalis.
(20) It is concluded that the state of ureterointestinal anastomoses and the sigmoid should be assessed specifically in postureterosigmoid anastomosis patients with impaired renal function.
Epididymis
Definition:
(n.) An oblong vermiform mass on the dorsal side of the testicle, composed of numerous convolutions of the excretory duct of that organ.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most actively proliferating region of the excurrent duct system is zone 3 of the epididymis, whereas the least active region is the ductuli efferentes.
(2) The epididymis appeared distended but without any visible sperms.
(3) The sulfhydryl group content of rat epididymal spermatozoa was similar from one cell to another, suggesting little sperm reabsorption in the epididymis.
(4) Corresponding hydrolysis of the water phase from incubation of epididymis from intact rats, demonstrated a marked quantitative difference.
(5) The ureter was connected to the epididymis of the testicle.
(6) Specific high affinity saturable binding proteins for oestradiol-17beta have been demonstrated in the cytoplasm of liver, adrenal, pituitary, prostate, epididymis and testis interstitial tissue of the rat.
(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 acrosin inhibitors are localized in the mucosa cells of the cauda epididymis, the vas deferens, the seminal vesicles, the urethra and distinct glandular units of the prostate.
(9) An investigation of the tissue distribution of CMB-2 showed that the puberty, CMB-2 is secreted into the rete testis and accumulates in the epididymis in high concentration.
(10) The tail(s) of the epididymis was the most frequent site of lesion development in the mature rams (86.4%).
(11) Intratesticular testosterone and 5 alpha DHT concentrations were determined, and the testis and epididymis were evaluated for histological changes.
(12) These binding sites, localized in the circumference of the epididymal tubule and most concentrated within the proximal cauda, are present throughout the caput, corpus, and remaining cauda epididymis.
(13) Within the epididymis, regions closest to the testis develop soluble ACE activity about 1 week before those nearest to the vas deferens.
(14) The 8.2S form of the AR is also present in all three segments of the immature epididymis, with the highest concentration occurring in the caput.
(15) The influence of androgens on the male accessory glands of the rat was assessed in terms of changes in weight and of the specific activity of the mitochondrial enzymes, succinate dehydrogenase, glycerolphosphate dehydrogenase and pyruvate carboxylase, in the epididymis.
(16) The concentration of FN in soluble tissue extracts of epididymis was determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
(17) We report the use of a sensitive and specific enyzme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to study the expression of protein D, a major androgen-regulated sperm-binding glycoprotein at the protein and mRNA level in different anatomical regions of the rat epididymis.
(18) The results are discussed in relation to protein secretion in the epididymis and to the role of antagglutinin in the gamete-interaction process.
(19) The primary amino acid sequence of 18.5 kDa androgen-dependent secretory proteins of the rat epididymis has been compared with protein data-base sequences.
(20) More ABP was endocytosed in proximal regions of the epididymis than any other protein studied.