What's the difference between artery and epiploic?
Artery
Definition:
(n.) The trachea or windpipe.
(n.) One of the vessels or tubes which carry either venous or arterial blood from the heart. They have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries.
(n.) Hence: Any continuous or ramified channel of communication; as, arteries of trade or commerce.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, arteries which were exposed to CO showed a higher uptake of cholesterol as compared to their corresponding control.
(2) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(3) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
(4) We conclude that chronic emphysema produced in dogs by aerosol administration of papain results in elevated pulmonary artery pressure, which is characterized pathologically by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries.
(5) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
(6) Each process has been linked to the regulation of cholesterol accretion in the arterial cell.
(7) The adjacent gauge was separated from the ischemic segment by one large nonoccluded diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.
(8) Of 19 patients with coronary artery disease and "normal" omnicardiograms, only 8 (42%) had normal ventricular angiography.
(9) The main finding of this study is that diabetic adolescents with a high erythrocyte Na,Li countertransport rate have an arterial pressure significantly higher than patients with normal Na,Li countertransport fluxes.
(10) All the women had vaginal ultrasound velocimetry studies in both mainstem uterine arteries through the parametrium before the surgical procedure and again after the procedure.
(11) The origin of the aorta and pulmonary artery from the right ventricle is a complicated and little studied congenital cardiac malformation.
(12) The remaining case had a calibre persistent submucosal artery within the caecum that was found incidentally in a resection specimen.
(13) In patients with coronary artery disease, electrocardiographic signs of left atrial enlargement (LAE-negative P wave deflection greater than or equal to 1 mm2 in lead V1) are associated with increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP).
(14) Concentrations of several gastrointestinal hormonal peptides were measured in lymph from the cisterna chyli and in arterial plasma; in healthy, conscious pigs during ingestion of a meal.
(15) Using multiple regression, a linear correlation was established between the cardiac index and the arterial-venous pH and PCO2 differences throughout shock and resuscitation (r2 = .91).
(16) We studied the hemodynamic changes caused by bronchoscopy under LA in mechanically ventilated patients and the effect of LA on the endoscopic decline in arterial pO2.
(17) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
(18) Arteries treated with atrial natriuretic peptide showed no alterations in relaxation or cGMP content after incubation with pertussis toxin.
(19) Myocardial ischaemia was induced in perfused rabbit hearts by ligating the left main coronary artery.
(20) Arterial oxyhaemoglobin saturation (SaO2) was monitored continuously during normal labour in 33 healthy parturients receiving pethidine and nitrous oxide for analgesia.
Epiploic
Definition:
(a.) Relating to the epiploon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cefotetan tissue penetration was 10% into abdominal and epiploic fat and 46% into the colonic wall.
(2) Most streams gather around celiac axis, while the flow along right gastro-epiploic vein is also important.
(3) All three methods prove that the right gastro-epiploic artery is capable of maintaining an adequate blood supply of the stomach including the critical fundus region.
(4) An omental pedicle graft, based on the right gastro-epiploic artery to facilitate perineal healing, was used in 20 cases of abdominoperineal resection of the rectum.
(5) In a 52 year old pyknic patient in whom very violent pain had suddenly occurred in the left lower abdomen, an acute hemorrhagic infarction of an epiploic appendix of the sigmoid colon with adhesion to the anterior abdominal wall was found to be the cause of the symptoms.
(6) Porta-azygos disconnection was achieved by ligating the right gastric and gastro-epiploic veins.
(7) The right gastro-epiploic artery graft is mobilized along the greater curvature of the stomach, and transected distally.
(8) Responses to dopamine were compared in helical strips of human gastroepiploic arteries (proximal portion) and their epiploic branches (distal portion), partially contracted with prostaglandin F2 alpha.
(9) The mean internal diameter of right gastro-epiploic artery was 2.3 mm.
(10) The clinical picture and diagnosis of pathological conditions of the epiploic appendage of the colon (torsion, inflammation, necrosis) are discussed from analysis of the literature data and 180 cases from the author's practice.
(11) Amongst 77 patients studied by phlebography for obstruction of the inferior vena cava, 5 (6%) showed evidence of a portal collateral network: 3 via the mesenteric vein, 2 via the epiploic veins.
(12) Complications included 1 case each of bleeding mesosalpinx controlled by cautery, wound hematoma, hematoma epiploic appendix, and peritoneal burn.
(13) After gastrolysis by conventional methods, the blood supply of the stomach exclusively depends on the right gastric and epiploic arteries.
(14) In the abdominal wall fat and epiploic fat, tissue metronidazole levels greater than or equal to MIC90 for B. fragilis were found in 40 to 60% of patients at surgical incision and closure.
(15) From March 1990 to July 1991, 35 patients underwent coronary artery bypass grafts using the right gastro-epiploic artery (GEA).
(16) Disorders of the epiploic appendages are rarely diagnosed preoperatively and usually result from torsion with subsequent infarction.
(17) Posterior coronary arteries were grafted using the right gastro-epiploic artery, and grafts to the left coronary artery were done using predominantly internal mammary artery grafts.
(18) Surgical findings (nine operations) were: three omental segmental infarctions (primary in two cases and secondary to torsion in one), three segmental epiploitis in two patients (one acute, one chronic, one secondary to foreign body), two cystic lesions (one lymphangioma, one hydatic cyst) and one benign tumor (fibromatosis).
(19) Since it is characteristic of HCC often to form tumor thrombi in the veins, it is not surprising that the tumor budded into the epiploic vein.
(20) A 59-year-old male with ischemic heart disease and cholecystolithiasis underwent coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) using the right gastro-epiploic artery (GEA) and cholecystectomy simultaneously CABG was performed under standard extracorporeal circulation followed by cholecystectomy at the same incision.