(n.) Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was no adrenal apoplexy or extensive haemorrhage that could explain shock in these patients.
(2) Acute symptomatic failure of the pituitary gland (pituitary apoplexy) commonly occurs in patients who have asymptomatic pituitary tumors.
(3) Catastrophic haemorrhage may occur even in small pituitary tumours and may result in the clinical syndrome of apoplexy with or without subsequent hypopituitarism.
(4) In 12 cases of pituitary apoplexy, a preexisting unsuspected adenoma was found.
(5) Therefore, our retrospective study suggests that pituitary apoplexy is not uncommon and has an acute clinical presentation.
(6) Pituitary apoplexy is an unusual manifestation of metastatic pituitary disease.
(7) In rats, a single administration of acrylonitrile (vinyl cyanide) produces a rapidly occurring bilateral adrenal apoplexy.
(8) Total and coronary mortality rates have been determined and also the incidence of certain non-fatal states which required hospitalization due to various types of coronary heart disease (CHD), hypertension, brain apoplexy, diabetes mellitus and malignancies.
(9) Histologically an adrenal apoplexy with necrosis and in liver, spleen and lung a lot of neutrophils were seen.
(10) They illustrate the difficulty of differentiating pituitary apoplexy from other acute neurologic conditions.
(11) In the majority of apoplexy patients the absence of a primary haemorrhage points to acute vascular occclusion with regional ischemia as the initiating event.
(12) Pituitary apoplexy is a syndrome with variable clinical manifestations depending on which parasellar structures (such as the optic nerves and chiasm, cavernous and sphenoid sinuses, or the hypothalamus) are compressed when the pituitary undergoes rapid enlargement.
(13) Pituitary apoplexy, a rare but life-threatening condition, may be highly variable in its clinical appearance and therefore should be considered in any patient with abrupt neurologic deterioration.
(14) Postpartum abdominal apoplexy is a rare obstetric complication that is associated with a very high maternal mortality rate.
(15) During the first year after the pituitary apoplexy, severe proliferative retinopathy developed in the left eye, which became almost blind.
(16) This report deals with a detailed course of one patient with acromegaly who had a pituitary apoplexy.
(17) A case of acromegaly complicated by pituitary apoplexy is described.
(18) The aim of surgical intervention is primarily to prevent ischemia and simultaneous cerebral apoplexy, and only after this to prevent the progressions of the existing ischemic changes.
(19) Pituitary apoplexy is characterized by a wide spectrum of clinical features.
(20) A patient, 38-year-old man, with hemorrhage into a prolactin-secreting pituitary adenoma, or pituitary apoplexy, is reported.
Sensation
Definition:
(n.) An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body.
(n.) A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.
(n.) A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since it was established, it has stoked controversy about contemporary art, though in recent years it has been more notable for its lack of sensationalism.
(2) Panic disorder subjects showed a negative relationship between pulmonary function and hyperventilation symptoms, suggesting a heightened sensitivity to, and discomfort with, sensations associated with normal pulmonary function.
(3) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.
(4) Independent t test results indicated nurses assigned more importance to psychosocial support and skills training than did patients; patients assigned more importance to sensation--discomfort than did nurses.
(5) Substantial percentages of both physicians and medical students reported access to drugs, family histories of substance abuse, stress at work and home, emotional problems, and sensation seeking.
(6) The results showed the kind of needling sensation while acupuncture had close relation with the appearance of PSM and the acupuncture effect.
(7) Although 95% of the patients are satisfied, 60% have some impairment of sensation in the lower lip.
(8) No significant changes in maximal work load, exercise time, systolic blood pressure at maximal work load, or subjective sensation of well-being could be demonstrated during combined drug treatment.
(9) Subjective measures of anxiety, frightening cognitions and body sensations were obtained across the phases.
(10) The analysis of the neurophysiological correlations of the image formation process is followed by a study of the functional role of the image in psychic dynamics, its genetic relationship with sensation and speech, its role in the communication functions, in the structuring of the relationship between the internal and the external world.
(11) These additional cues involved different sensations in effort of the perfomed movement sliding heavy object vs. sliding light object (sS test), as well as different sensations in pattern of movement and joints - sliding vs. lifting of an object (SL test).
(12) Work over the past 17 years has consistently failed to reveal any objective sign accompanying the transient sensations that some individuals experience after the experimental ingestion of monosodium glutamate and it is questionable whether the term 'Chinese Restaurant Syndrome' has any validity.
(13) Forty-four patients of meralgia paraesthetica presented with combination of symptoms mainly of numbness with loss of superficial sensation on the anterolateral aspect of a thigh were selected for the study.
(14) The incidence of phantom pain and nonpainful phantom sensations was 13.3% and 15.0%, respectively, 3 weeks after mastectomy, 12.7% and 11.8%, respectively, after a year, and 17.4% and 11.8%, respectively, after 6 years.
(15) History is littered with examples of byelection sensations that soon turned to dust.
(16) The return of sensation is of particular benefit to elderly patients who make up the greatest number of patients in the series.
(17) The subjects described the thirst sensations as mainly due to a dry unpleasant tasting mouth, which was promptly relieved by drinking.
(18) Similarly, subjects that were trained to focus their attention on the magnitude of the immediate (first) pain sensation evoked by brief electrical or mechanical stimulation did not report reduction by morphine of pain attributed to conduction in myelinated peripheral nociceptors.
(19) This scale thus provides a reproducible and sensitive estimation of the sensation of dyspnoea during effort and thus appears valuable in evaluating the subjective response in therapeutic trials in patients who are dyspnoeic on effort.
(20) Examination revealed that five patients in the nerve divided group had a small area of altered sensation but this was not significant either for the patient or statistically between the groups.