(n.) A sore on the back or hips caused by lying for a long time in bed.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the cervical vertebral-myelic trauma a high incidence of bronchopulmonary, metabolic, thromboembolic complications and bedsores is present.
(2) The use of the flexor hallucis longus tendon as an additional landmark has been tested in 71 patients scheduled for surgery on the foot (emergency trauma surgery, amputations, ingrowing toe-nails, removal of bedsores, verrucas).
(3) Our results suggest that the increased density of collagen fibrils may protect the skin of ALS patients from pressure ischemia, a major cause of bedsore formation.
(4) Failure of rods in 6 cases (of 461 detected) and 5 cases of inflammation of soft tissues (skin bedsores-type).
(5) There are frequent reports of the chronic nature of skin ulcers of varying etiology (burns, bedsores, wound diastasis, etc.
(6) Dynamic spine fitting not only enables the patient to accept his disability, take interest in vocational and social rehabilitation sooner than conventional methods, but also prevents the typical psychological and physiological complications, such as depression, neurasthenic status, urological complications and bedsores.
(7) Patients dying at home were (a) more likely to be fully alert shortly before death (P < 0.05); (b) less likely to be suffering from vomiting, incontinence, or bedsores (P < 0.001); and (c) less likely to have unrelieved physical distress (P < 0.05).
(8) All 5 cases of bedsores were the result of paraplegia.
(9) After that, the bedsore has been treated by Gebencream (1% Cream of Sulfadiazine silver) as usually.
(10) The drugs-mixture, as mentioned above, has been scattered over its bedsore before the usual traditional treatment.
(11) The main complications affecting the skin comprise the dermatologic toxicity of anticancer therapy, bedsores, malignant ulcers, sores due to nonmetastatic cancer, pruritus, and infections.
(12) This case of a malignant sacrococcygeal teratoma, usually a tumour of early childhood, presented as a bedsore in the lower end of the nuchal cleft of a 69-year-old man and proved to be malignant with a trophoblastic element.
(13) From 1984 to 1991, 5 cases of bedsores and 1 case of ulcer resulted from irradiation in gluteal region were repaired with gluteus maximus musculocutaneous flaps.
(14) The use of catheters for evacuation and lavage enables fast regeneration of intestinal peristalsis and rapid patient recovery thus preventing possible bedsores.
(15) We have measured and compared the mechanical properties of the skin, muscles and of a cushion designed to prevent bedsores.
(16) The authors report the results of a two years monitoring program focused on patients at risk of and with bedsores in the general hospital of Castelfranco Veneto.
(17) Out of 200 infections due to Bacteroides fragilis occurring over a period of three years 133 were related to the intestinal tract, 55 to the genitourinary tract, and the remainder were in bedsores and ulcers; 56% occurred in patients undergoing major intestinal surgery.B.
(18) The causes of bedsores and their complications are described, along with the preventive and surgical, medical and physiotherapeutic measures used in their treatment.
(19) The results suggest that these patients are best managed within their familiar environment, that femoral head replacement arthroplasty is appropriate for high fractures and that the prevention of bedsores in conservatively treated patients is of great importance.
(20) Mechanical stresses developed in the tissue during sitting or reclining could cause bedsores in paralyzed individuals.
Bony
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.
(a.) Having large or prominent bones.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gross deformity, point tenderness and decrease in supination and pronation movements of the forearm were the best predictors of bony injury.
(2) Classically, parathormone is known to increase bony reabsorption and raise serum calcium.
(3) 5 reconstructions of the posterior bony canal wall were moderately sunk in.
(4) The bony elements of both adjacent vertebral bodies are secondarily involved.
(5) Orbital hypertelorism, strictly defined as an increase in bony interorbital distance, is not itself an isolated syndrome, but is instead an anomaly that may occur as either part of a syndrome or malformation sequence.
(6) Most patients had pulmonary metastases, two had bony metastases, and one had metastases in the iliac nodes.
(7) Technetium-99m (V)DMSA has been demonstrated in this study to be a useful imaging agent in patients with MCT, showing uptake in significantly more lesions and with better imaging qualities than [131I]MIBG, and with the ability to detect soft tissue as well as bony metastases.
(8) Much more recently, use of modern CT ("computed tomography") scanning equipment on the London Archaeopteryx's skull has enabled scientists to reconstruct the whole of its bony brain case - and so model the structure of the brain itself.
(9) A major limitation of 3-D CT is its inability to reconstruct the pathology of soft tissues with the same fidelity afforded bony structures.
(10) The diagnosis of cervical injuries may be facilitated by following a logical pattern of analysis searching for abnormalities of alignment and anatomy, of bony integrity, of the cartilage or joint spaces, and of the soft tissues.
(11) All lesions but one were located extradurally, and patients with Stage D2 disease, by virtue of bony metastases, were therefore at greatest risk for development of neurologically compressive disease.
(12) A study was undertaken to assess whether CT measurements of the upper craniofacial skeleton accurately represent the bony region imaged.
(13) Three dimensional images reconstructed from two dimensional CT scans allow improved analysis of complex orbitocranial bony deformities.
(14) The utility of computerized tomography of the chest, in addition to the chest roentgenogram, in assessing the bony involvement of the thoracic tumor is illustrated.
(15) The value of unenhanced CT essentially is limited to the demonstration of bony changes.
(16) Applying the principles of mechanics, the authors have studied and compared the bony structures of the temporo-mandibular joint.
(17) However, separation of the capsule from the bony glenoid can be detected if a joint effusion is present to adequately distend the joint.
(18) Sixty-three per cent of the implants were operated in immediately after tooth extraction, whereas the rest were installed in a healed bony alveolar ridge.
(19) From the survey of another 21 patients having bony abnormalities at the craniovertebral junction, the first type of arterial anomaly described above was seen in 4 patients and associated with failure of segmentation of the embryonic sclerotome such as occipitalization of the atlas or Klippel-Feil syndrome.
(20) Five patients were found to have biopsy-proved extramedullary plasmacytomas without extension from an underlying bony focus.