(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.
Vesical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the bladder.
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) One animal developed a lymphoma and none showed vesical tumors.
(3) This may be one mechanism in the development of a giant vesical calculus.
(4) Out of 75 vesical bacteriurias 39 infantile and 7 adult (together 61%) specimens contained antibody-coaded bacteria.
(5) Stress continence depends upon three factors: proximal urethral support, vesical neck closure, and urethral contractility.
(6) Surgical intervention beyond temporary vesical drainage is unnecessary.
(7) The authors present a case of scaly carcinoma, located in a vesical diverticulum.
(8) In an effort to relieve subvesical resistance in the established paraplegic with unacceptable neurogenic vesical dysfunction while simultaneously preserving potency, a radical Y-V-plasty was carried out in 5 patients.
(9) A case is presented on the use of extracorporeal lithotrity by shock waves to treat vesical lithiasis, using the desk module of a Lithostar-PlusR (Siemens) lithotripter.
(10) Of the patients 2 required periodic intermittent catheterization for more than a year postoperatively and 12 are managed by chronic intermittent self-catheterization on a planned basis for neurogenic vesical dysfunction.
(11) After different time intervals following a single or course-wise administration of the compound the level of total lipids was determined in the muscles and liver of the mice, and of the total lipids, beta-lipoproteins, phospholipids, cholesterol, fatty acids and 11-oxycorticosteroids levels in the blood serum of rabbits and of the bile acids content in the vesical bile of these animals.
(12) The development of the muscular tissue of the ureter, ureterovesical junction and vesical trigone in the human fetus has been investigated using serial histological sections.
(13) Three months after surgery, six patients had a vesical capacity of 300 ml or more and could excrete a maximum 200-300 ml urine at one voiding.
(14) At least some of these NPY-immunoreactive nerve fibres have an intrinsic origin in ganglion cells within the vesical wall.
(15) When a reflex bladder contraction occurred in response to filling (expulsion phase) the intravesical pressure exceeded the urethral pressure and at the top of the vesical contraction a series of rapid intraluminal pressure high frequency oscillations (IPHFO) were recorded at the urethral recording site, which were abolished by neuromuscular blocking agents as well as after acute sectioning of pudendal nerves.
(16) It is possible that endovesical lymphography will yield new information leading to more accurate treatment of vesical carcinoma in terms of tumor staging.
(17) A case of primary cancer of the vesical diverticulum in a patient with spinal cord injury is reported.
(18) From its results it can be seen that a diminished vesical accommodation is not a urodynamic fact restricted to vesicourethral neurogenic dysfunction, but it happens in several non-neurogenic conditions.
(19) This inhibition of the large contractions was caused by disappearance of the rhythmic burst discharges in the vesical branches of the pelvic nerves.
(20) By means of an extracellular glass microelectrode method, unitary discharges synchronized with the grouping discharges in the pelvic vesical branch with a rhythm of 2.2-2.5 Hz were recorded from the pontine micturition center in the dorsolateral pontine tegmentum.