What's the difference between bladder and vesicovaginal?
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.
Vesicovaginal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the bladder and the vagina.
Example Sentences:
(1) A successful closure of recurrent multiple vesicovaginal fistulas in a woman using mucosa alone is reported.
(2) A total of 16 patients underwent transvaginal repair of simple nonradiated vesicovaginal fistulas.
(3) The first reported case of a vesicovaginal fistula in which the fallopian tube serves as a conduit between the bladder and vagina is presented.
(4) A simple method of curettage of the fistulous tract, using an ordinary metal screw, has been successful in the cure of certain types of vesicovaginal fistulas.
(5) We treated 45 patients with urovaginal fistulas owing to operative gynecological procedures and radiotherapy: 36 had vesicovaginal and urethrovaginal, 6 had ureterovaginal and 3 had rectovesicovaginal fistulas.
(6) Abdominal hysterectomy after treatment of cervical cancer by radiation therapy is associated with a significant rate of postoperative vesicovaginal fistulas.
(7) Regarding complications of embolization therapy, two cases of vesicovaginal fistula were noted.
(8) Twenty-one of 23 patients completed RT and 18 of 23 patients completed CT as planned, but half had delays in either RT or CT. Grade 2 or 3 late sequelae consisted of leg edema (one patient), proctosigmoiditis (one patient), bowel obstruction (one patient), vesicovaginal fistula (one patient), and pulmonary embolus (two--one fatal).
(9) We report 2 cases of vesicovaginal fistulas sustained during sexual intercourse.
(10) Impaired renal function including lack of function was demonstrated in 96.9 per cent of the patients with ureterovaginal fistulas, demonstrated by excretory urography, isotope nephrography and renal scintigraphy, whereas renal function in patients with vesicovaginal and urethrovaginal fistulas remained intact for a long time.
(11) The authors evaluated in a retrospective analysis their experience with treatment of vesicovaginal fistulae in 36 patients.
(12) In gynaecology, vesicovaginal fistulae in the wake of vaginal and abdominal hysterectomy have considerably increased in the last 15 years.
(13) The application of a modified Latzko's partial colpocleisis to vesicovaginal fistula occurring after abdominal hysterectomy has been reported.
(14) The authors discuss the vesicovaginal fistulas seen at the Central Hospital in Yaounde.
(15) After the radiotherapy, rectovaginal fistula developed in 1 patient, vesicovaginal fistula in 1.
(16) 27 vesicovaginal fistulas have been treated with this method, with a cure rate of 60%.
(17) Vesicovaginal fistula (VVF), commonly caused by prolonged obstructed labor, is one of the worst complications of childbirth.
(18) Between 1973 and 1985, a total of 46 patients were operated for vesicovaginal fistula.
(19) Obstetrical vesicovaginal fistulas are still very common in third world countries, due to the difficulties of medical care.
(20) The additional clinical examination confirmed this diagnosis in all patients and additionally led to diagnosis of a vesicovaginal fistula in one patient.