(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.
Vesica
Definition:
(n.) A bladder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two UCN join the ureters and the cecum, to which the trigone, the cervix vesicae, or the prostatic or membranous urethra is anastomosed, depending on the case.
(2) Operative damage to the sphincter apparatus below the uvula vesicae is the most serious complication of prostatic surgery.
(3) The localization of the antigen-antibody reactions on methacrylate embedded sections of an adult male and female of the nematode Dipetalonema vitae by the indirect immunofluorescence test was found to be as follows: female D. vitae: in the egg-shell and circumference of sections of the microfilariae as well as amorphous structures in the vesica seminalis and vas deferens.
(4) From a functional anatomic standpoint every precise surgical technique for incontinence must take the cingulum vesicae and the adjacent structures into consideration.
(5) In the synaptic vesicae of rat brains the free amino acids were determined for control animals and experimental animals during the preconvulsive phase of induced cerebral spasms.
(6) Where there is a likelihood of long survival as in such conditions as ectopia vesicae, this technique will provide very satisfactory management and three patients surviving more than a total of 100 years illustrate this approach.
(7) On the basis of own clinical experiences in the treatment of the ulcus simplex vesicae in connection with the special literature is described that frequent failures in therapy may be traced back to the up to now still uncleared genesis of the disease.
(8) Dense connective tissue forms a permanent link, adjacent to the cingulum vesicae, between the bladder on the one hand and the lateral pelvic wall and anterior surface of the uterus on the other; in this way the bladder is held in the pelvis at a particular point.
(9) A case of recto-sigmoid adenocarcinoma, developing 25 years after bilateral uretero-sigmo dostomy for extrophia vesicae in a 29 year old man.
(10) The fascia endopelvina, extending into the bladder along the entire circumference between the corpus and fundus vesicae, represents the cingulum vesicae.
(11) The embryology, anatomy, pathology, and clinical significance of vesica fellea triplex are discussed and the previous eight case reports are reviewed.
(12) Other associated defects, such as exomphalos, ectopia vesicae and craniorhachischisis, are correlated with the presence of a single umbilical artery.
(13) The underlying diagnoses were ectopia vesicae (7), myelodysplasia (2) and a cervical cord injury secondary to birth trauma (1).
(14) They conclude that: 1--the vessel should be named "ventral vesical artery"; 2--it is a sharply defined structure and can't be confused with the "inferior" or "caudal vesical artery"; 3--emerging from the deep femoral artery (A. profunda femoris), caudal epigastric artery (A. epigastrica caudalis), or from the pudendoepigastric trunk (Truncus pudendoepigastricus), the "ventral vesical artery" appeared bilaterally (6.66%); unilaterally to the right (13.33%) and unilaterally to the left (3.33%); 4--when present, the "ventral vesical artery" supplies the ventral area of the bladder (Vesica urinaria) and regional fat, and eventually, gives a few branches to the prostate gland and urethra.
(15) In the Clinical Implications it is summarized that one intercostal nerve (9000 afferents, 1000 efferents) with its dissectable skin (3000 aff), muscle (300 aff, 300 eff) and mixed branches (2500 aff, 1500 eff) contains enough myelinated fibres for a reinnervation of the detrusor (3200 aff, 800 eff), the external anal and bladder sphincters (30 aff, 30 eff), the mucosa of the urethra, trigonum vesicae and anal canal (200 aff) and the lower sacral skin (6000 aff) on one side if one intends to restorate urinary bladder function in paraplegia by a nerve anastomosis.
(16) In the IgG class higher values appeared mainly in Grawitz tumor, however, a certain elevated level with respect to the other groups of malignancies occurred also in Ca vesicae urinariae and in Ca bronchogenes, but the differences are without statistical significance.
(17) A vesicle simulation and computer analysis program, VESICA, is described which employs spherical projections of triangularly tessellated icosahedra to produce molecular graphics models of the three-dimensional structures of lipid vesicles.
(18) Their higher frequency following the longer acting bupivacaine may be evidence of longer lasting blockade of the efferent sacral parasympathetic fibers innervating the detrusor vesicae muscle, leading to inhibition of bladder voiding.
(19) ACh produced a marked contraction of the preparation from the bladder body and produced no response in the collum vesicae and the urethra; however, NE caused a marked contraction of the preparations from the collum vesicae and the urethra and relaxation in the bladder body.
(20) Whether and to what extent the electromyography on the m. sphincter vesicae allows the possibility of the differentiation between adenoma of the prostate gland and carcinomaof the prostate gland in the early clinical stage shall be reserved for further examination.