What's the difference between bladder and cystocele?
Bladder
Definition:
(n.) A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air.
(n.) Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.
(n.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp.
(n.) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
(v. t.) To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
(v. t.) To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.
Example Sentences:
(1) administration of the potent short-acting opioid, fentanyl, elicited inhibition of rhythmic spontaneous reflex increases in vesical pressure (VP) evoked by urinary bladder distension.
(2) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
(3) The risk of recurrence and progression in 170 patients presenting with pTa urothelial tumours of the bladder has been estimated so that follow-up can be rationalised.
(4) High radioactivities were observed in the digestive organs, mesenteric lymphnodes, liver, pancreas, urinary bladder, fat tissue, kidney and spleen after oral administration to rats.
(5) There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance, impaired gall bladder contraction, and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes.
(6) These data, compared with literature findings, support the idea that intratumoral BCG instillation of bladder cancer permits a longer disease-free period than other therapeutical approaches.
(7) This is a report concerning a unique combination of Alzheimer's disease with the following refluxes: buccosalivary, gastroesophageal, vesicoureteral, urethroprostatic and urethrovesicular, along with neurogenic bowel and neuropathic bladder.
(8) Stimulation with these electrodes were effective for inducing voiding with little residual volume after the recovery of bladder reflexes, 3 weeks after experimental spinal cord injury in the dog.
(9) Tiropramide remarkably increased cAMP level but it had no effect on cGMP level in the bladder at the lower concentrations.
(10) The presence of an inverse correlation between certain tryptophan metabolites, shown previously to be bladder carcinogens, and the N-nitrosamine content, especially after loading, was interpreted in view of the possible conversion of some tryptophan metabolites into N-nitrosamines either under endovesical conditions or during the execution of the colorimetric determination of these compounds.
(11) There were 13 patients with bladder exstrophy and 2 with incontinent epispadias.
(12) haematobium and is a complication of bilharziasis of the bladder and intestine.
(13) Cloacal exstrophy, centered on the maldevelopment of the primitive streak mesoderm and cloacal membrane, results in bladder and intestinal exstrophy, omphalocele, gender confusion, and hindgut deformity.
(14) NH4Cl reduced the promoting activity of SA in urinary bladder carcinogenesis.
(15) In 290 patients with untreated carcinoma of the bladder the deoxyribonucleic acid properties, as measured by flow cytometry, of 3 random mucosal biopsies were studied and compared to those of the exophytic tumors.
(16) We report on the clinical studies of bladder tumours carried out at the centre for oncology in the Aarhus area and describe the experience and results of the past three decades.
(17) Incubation of sensitized bladder tissue with indomethacin led to an increased force and duration of the contraction while incubation with nordihydroguaiaretic acid combined with pyrilamine reduced histamine release and abolished the contraction.
(18) During sixty-six months, 145 Kock pouches were constructed: 79 for continent cutaneous diversion (44 men, 35 women), 54 bladder replacements by men, 12 ileo-rectal diversions (10 women, 2 men).
(19) Fifteen SCI patients underwent a total of 224 ultrasonic bladder volume determinations and 57 urethral catheterizations.
(20) Bladder capacity was increased and filling pressure reduced during treatment.
Cystocele
Definition:
(n.) Hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three patients developed asymptomatic cystocele or enterocele, and 5 (23%) women had a curtailed vagina.
(2) Vaginal approach has a lower incidence of operative complications than the abdominal approach and seems to ensure a lower risk of recurrent cystocele, even if simple and asymptomatic.
(3) We performed the transvaginal approach described by S. Raz for stress urinary incontinence and cystocele.
(4) The patients with cystocele did not demonstrate the abnormal voiding patterns characteristic of outflow obstruction.
(5) We studied two patients with massive inguinoscrotal herniation of the urinary bladder, commonly referred to as "scrotal cystocele."
(6) We developed a new transvaginal technique for the repair of large cystoceles (grade IV) extending outside of the introitus at rest, which includes repair of the central defect by anterior colporrhaphy, and repair of the paravaginal herniation of the bladder base and bladder neck by a needle suspension of these structures.
(7) In 4 cases the interpretation interfered with a large cystocele.
(8) Severe cystoceles develop from weaknesses of the levator sling and pubocervical fasciae resulting in 2 main anatomical changes: a central defect between the pubocervical fasciae, and a sliding herniation of the bladder and urethra (paravaginal defect).
(9) It is important that the presence of cystocele be carefully and accurately assessed preoperatively and intraoperatively so that correction appropriate to its etiologic circumstance can be achieved.
(10) Thirteen patients with subsequent or persistent cystoceles had no bladder repair performed at the time of the study procedure.
(11) All patients presented at least a stage II cystocele and hysteroptosis, 47% a patent and 93% a potential stress incontinence and 40% a sphincter incompetence.
(12) We found that neither a cystocele nor the dependent position of the urethra at the bottom of the bladder were diagnostic of SI if the above stigmata were absent.
(13) Not every vaginal hysterectomy should be treated like a cystocele-rectocele repair.
(14) Patients with anatomic stress incontinence tended to have larger cystoceles and greater Q-tip angles; however, a significant percentage of patients with urge incontinence also had cystoceles and abnormal Q-tip angles.
(15) It demonstrates that age makes bladder rehabilitation in these patients more difficult, because of the decreased ability of the elderly to cope with the new situation, of pre-existing factors interfering with micturition like benign prostatic hyperplasia and cystocele and because of a delayed and at the end sometimes weak detrusor reflect activity.
(16) Recent investigations suggest that the suprapubic approach is more effective than vaginal procedures and that this should be preferred for SI, regardless of the type of possible suspension defect and the presence of slight to moderate cystocele.
(17) Cystoceles grade II and III were completely reduced.
(18) Cystocele was present in 92% of stress, 49% of urge and 83% of combined cases.
(19) Appropriate reconstruction to minimize the risk of postoperative recurrence of cystocele has been achieved by a technique described for full length anterior colporrhaphy embracing transverse plication of the bladder adventitia and reduction in vaginal length as well as width.
(20) The only preoperative risk factor identified was the presence of a large cystocele.