(n.) One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.
(n.) Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth.
(n.) The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion.
(n.) Offspring.
(v. t.) To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
Example Sentences:
(1) These same molecules may be equally responsible for the pathologic characteristics of the immune response seen, for example, in inflammatory bowel diseases.
(2) In the case presented, overdistension of a jejunostomy catheter balloon led to intestinal obstruction and pressure necrosis (of the small bowel), with subsequent abscess formation leading to death from septicemia.
(3) The only localized tumors known to produce elevation of CEA above the levels observed in non malignant diseases are carcinomas of the large bowel and the pancreas.
(4) 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.
(5) Metastatic tumors of the small bowel from extra-abdominal sites are rare.
(6) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
(7) Patients with inflammatory bowel disease showed decreased tissue-type plasminogen activator antigen release (t-PA Ag), no significant Von Willebrand antigen release (vWF Ag), and a residual plasminogen activator inhibitor activity (PAI activity) after venous occlusion.
(8) Regression of the tumor occurred during an episode of mechanical small bowel obstruction.
(9) After large bowel removal, there was impaired glucose tolerance and attenuated plasma insulin secretion.
(10) A certain amount of relaparotomies after small bowel surgery is caused by technical failures, such as the technique of suturing the anastomosis and the kind of re-establishing the continuity of the bowel.
(11) The affected bowel was replaced through the laceration, and the vaginal defects were sutured with the mares standing, utilizing epidural anesthesia.
(12) Failues of PAFD occurred primarily with the presence of phlegmonous collections and cavities with fistulous connection to bowel.
(13) symptoms, bowel habits, normal physical examination, absence of intestinal infections or parasites) b) physiopathological evaluation (hyperactivity of the distal colon, hypersensitivity to stimuli, stress), and c) physiological evaluation of the patient.
(14) A case is presented with radiographically demonstrated angioedema in the stomach and small bowel accompanied by allergic rhinitis, which was apparently an allergic response to the barium sulfate suspension.
(15) To investigate whether counting cells containing immunoglobulin (Ig) subclass in colonic biopsy specimens of patients with chronic inflammatory bowel disease, in addition to conventional histological evaluation, can improve the differentiation of patients with Crohn's disease from those with ulcerative colitis.
(16) Alternatively, structural changes in these molecules, rather than an increase in their number or the expression of other surface glycoproteins, may be more important in mediating adhesive interactions in inflammatory bowel disease.
(17) In addition, fibrin thrombi were noted in a wide variety of specific and nonspecific inflammatory bowel diseases and in acute appendicitis.
(18) This hypothesis is consistent with recent findings of elastosis of the bowel wall muscles, the distribution of diverticula along the colon, as well as with epidemiological data on the emergence of diverticulosis coli as a medical problem and its geographic prevalence.
(19) Doppler ultrasound was used to determine the viability of ischemic small intestine and to select the optimum point for resection of nonviable bowel.
(20) This postoperative surveillance was aimed at discovering benign or malignant neoplastic growth within the remaining large bowel.
Feces
Definition:
(n. pl.) dregs; sediment; excrement. See FAeces.
Example Sentences:
(1) Concentrations of the drugs in feces increased with increasing dosage, resulting in greater changes of the intestinal bacterial flora.
(2) Ten or 4% of the administered parasites passed in the feces during the 3 days following the first or second infection, but 32% after the third infection.
(3) Significant decreases in most SCFA, total SCFA (0.01 less than P less than 0.02), and pyruvic acid (0.02 less than P less than 0.05) concentrations in feces were found on day 3 of treatment and also on day 5, with the exception of the pyruvic acid concentrations.
(4) Plasmid profiling was used to distinguish strains of lactobacilli inhabiting the digestive tract of piglets and the feces of sows.
(5) The feces contained less than 3% of the dose and the expired 14CO2 and cage wash accounted for less than 0.2 and 1% of the dose, respectively.
(6) An isolation technique involving filtration and discontinuous density gradient centrifugation was utilized for obtaining Giardia lamblia cysts from human feces.
(7) Homologous, heterologous, and intermediate gel CIE and CRIE clearly demonstrated that DF bodies and DF feces share some common Ags or epitopes, but the two different extracts also were quantitatively different.
(8) An average of 30% of administered radioactivity was found in feces, 50% in urine.
(9) The excretion of radioactivity in feces and urine was determined after a single i.v.
(10) Approximately 12% and 40% of radioactivity administered was excreted in the urine and feces respectively during the first 24 hours, however, the excretion of radioactivity by expiration was not determined.
(11) During the consecutive administration, recoveries of radioactivity in the urine and feces were almost at a constant rates, with 8.0 and 93.8% of the total radioactivity given excreted in the urine and feces, respectively, within 10 days after the last administration.
(12) The principal route of excretion of 48V administered iv was via urine, whereas the isotope given orally was excreted almost entirely by way of feces, resulting in low tissue and urinary 48V levels.
(13) A new serotype, candidate adenovirus type 42, a member of subgenus D, was isolated from the feces of a healthy child.
(14) In a trial with rams, application of polyethylene powder (PE) as a marker for determination of feed passage rate through the digestive tract and three methods of its determination in feed and feces were tested.
(15) Reovirus-like agents were detected by electron microscopy in the feces of 11 of 31 patients, but none was found from specimens collected during convalescence or from 16 asymptomatic matched controls (P less than 0.01).
(16) A 70-kilodalton antigen was found in feces that contained strain CDC:0284:1 cysts.
(17) administration of 1 mumole per kg body weight), and small amounts (less than 1% of administered dose) are excreted into the urine and feces.
(18) Two of three noninoculated pouch mates acquired infections during the study based on examinations of feces and tissue sections of all eight opossums.
(19) The 16S rRNA test was able to detect 10(7) bacteria per g of feces, and the IS900 test detected 10(4) to 10(5) per g of feces.
(20) Sixty-four patients use the device regularly and are able to retain feces of any consistency.