What's the difference between biliary and miliary?
Biliary
Definition:
(a.) Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts.
Example Sentences:
(1) The condition is compared to extrahepatic and intrahepatic biliary atresia of man and evidence is presented for regarding this case to be one of extrahepatic origin.
(2) Results demonstrate that the development of biliary strictures is strongly associated with the duration of cold ischemic storage of allografts in both Euro-Collins solution and University of Wisconsin solution.
(3) The most serious complications following operative treatment are retained bile duct calculi (2.8%), wound infection and biliary fistulae.
(4) In case of biliary and pancreatic duct obstruction with pure pancreatic reflux, both oedema and inflammatory infiltrations were evident, whereas, in the presence of biliary reflux too, more serious histological features were detected.
(5) Therapy was withheld after 19 months because of biliary sclerosis development.
(6) Papillomatosis of the biliary ducts is exceptional.
(7) Bile flow was stimulated significantly by VPA and MCCA, but not by CCA; changes in bile flow correlated with the biliary excretion rate of base-labile conjugates rather than with excretion of the parent compounds themselves.
(8) When a biliary origin is detected this can lead to immediate treatment using endoscopic sphincterotomy.
(9) Biliary and urinary excretion of five tritium-labelled cardiac glycosides, i.e.
(10) [14C]Sucrose biliary clearance increased in treated animals, suggesting an increased permeability of the biliary system to sucrose.
(11) Type II includes the Sjögren's syndrome, rhumatoid arthritis, primary biliary cirrhosis, scleroderma and autoimmune thyroid disorders.
(12) This may be the reason that the renal contrast materials are poorly escreted in bile compared to the biliary contrast agents.
(13) Major reported complications include hemorrhage, perforation, biliary and pancreatic obstruction, and inflammation with intestinal obstruction.
(14) Six of the obstructed livers developed biliary cast formation so extensive that the smaller intrhepatic ducts became plugged to an extent that they could no longer have been treated by surgical mena.
(15) Thus biliary GSSG efflux, a frequently used index of oxidant stress, is not increased in vitamin E-deficient perfused livers compared with control.
(16) In this series, the association between the anomalous ductal insertion and biliary tract disease cannot be established, since the method of patient selection obviates any epidemiologic consideration.
(17) In chronic active hepatitis and liver cirrhosis, both carbohydrate antigen 19-9 positive biliary ductular cells and factor VIII-related antigen positive endothelial cells were not only observed in the enlarged portal area but also extended into the parenchyma.
(18) The effect on biliary lipid secretion is unpredictable and affected by the dose and, in consequence, by the conjugation pattern of the bile acid.
(19) According to the resolution of the national coordinative conference, 1098 cases with extrahepatic biliary cancer, from 1977, January to 1989, April were collected by over 40 hospitals and coordinative groups throughout the country.
(20) Because of the absence of a history of pancreatitis or an operation upon the biliary tract, the obstruction was thought to be due to malignancy.
Miliary
Definition:
(a.) Like millet seeds; as, a miliary eruption.
(a.) Accompanied with an eruption like millet seeds; as, a miliary fever.
(a.) Small and numerous; as, the miliary tubercles of Echini.
(n.) One of the small tubercles of Echini.
Example Sentences:
(1) In situ hybridization of sea urchin (Psammechinus miliaris, Lytechinus pictus and Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) histone messenger RNA has been used to map complementary sequences on polytene chromosomes from Drosophila melanogaster.
(2) Elderly patients with persistent unexplained fever require a diagnostic evaluation that focuses on specific infections (eg, occult abdominal abscess, bacterial endocarditis, miliary tuberculosis), rheumatic disorders (eg, temporal arteritis, polyarteritis nodosa), and neoplasms (eg, lymphoma, nephroma).
(3) 62.4, 30.6 and 7.0 per cent of the children suffered from tuberculosis of the intrathoracic lymph nodes, primary tuberculosis and miliary tuberculosis, respectively.
(4) Two patients with non-miliary pulmonary tuberculosis developed a syndrome resembling adult respiratory distress following initiation of drug treatment.
(5) Post mortem revealed an aplasia of the thymus, hypoplasia of the lymph system, miliary tuberculous foci in the lymph nodes, liver and spleen.
(6) The high predominance of male patients among those with miliary tuberculosis in our study remains unexplained.
(7) Chest roentgenograms demonstrated bilateral nodules in seven patients, solitary nodules in four, and a miliary pattern progressing to nodules in one.
(8) Although the first unrecognized indication that short-course antimicrobial treatment of tuberculosis might be effective came in reports of tuberculous meningitis and miliary tuberculosis in children so treated by Lorber (1951 to 1956), the 1977 American Lung Association-American Thoracic Society recommendation for antimicrobial therapy of tuberculosis in adults still specified an 18-month course.
(9) Rarely BCG-vaccinated children suffered from miliary tuberculosis, tuberculous meningitis and pleurisy.
(10) Chest x-ray examination revealed a miliary interstitial nodular pattern in both lung fields.
(11) Renal damage was evident following intravenous infection with either strain, although the mutant appeared to be less invasive; MY 1044 produced characteristic miliary, subcapsular lesions, while the mutant (MY 1049) produced large granulomas.
(12) The hemoglobin of Liophis miliaris has unusual properties.
(13) 67 patients with miliary TB diagnosed over a 15 year period (1973-1987) have been retrospectively studied.
(14) She was diagnosed to have miliary tuberculosis, and antituberculous drugs were administered.
(15) Fertilized ova of the worm were found in miliary peritoneal granulomata, and showed development up to the eight-cell stage.
(16) We report a fatal case of occult pulmonary embolism complicating bronchogenic carcinoma which presented with rapidly progressive pulmonary miliary shadows and respiratory failure.
(17) An acute miliary pulmonary tuberculosis with extensive cutaneous reaction to tuberculin then appeared.
(18) Three patients had miliary tuberculosis and one had no pulmonary lesion.
(19) The treatment course was directed at combatting miliary tuberculosis.
(20) Chest miliary tuberculosis is found in all their cases, and 3 of the 5 cases of the other authors.