(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.
Volvulus
Definition:
(n.) The spasmodic contraction of the intestines which causes colic.
(n.) Any twisting or displacement of the intestines causing obstruction; ileus. See Ileus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Forty-six percent of the plain abdominal radiographs were suspected for cecal volvulus, but only 17 percent were diagnostic.
(2) The instrumental treatment of the volvulus of the sigma prevents surgical interventions under unfavourable conditions for the patient.
(3) Gastric volvulus is an uncommon condition in which an acquired torsion of the stomach results in acute or chronic gastrointestinal symptoms.
(4) Gastric drainage procedures are commonly used in veterinary medicine, particularly in dogs in attempts to prevent recurrence of gastric dilatation-volvulus (GDV).
(5) The concentrations of CGP 6140 [4-nitro-4'-(N-methyl-piperazinylthiocarbonylamido)-diphenylamine] and of its N-oxide metabolite, CGP 13,231, were measured in plasma and urine after single oral dose of 100-1600 mg of CGP 6140 to 41 fasted Ghanaian patients with Onchocerca volvulus infections.
(6) The average number of infective larvae of O. volvulus per infective fly was 2.6 and 2.2 during the rainy and dry seasons respectively.
(7) Also, during prepatency the granulocyte and antibody-mediated in vitro killing of microfilariae of O. volvulus increased in subsequently patent chimpanzees.
(8) Patients with sigmoid volvulus with no clinical evidence of gangrene were selected for study, and all were given a trial of non-operative reduction by proctoscopy and passage of a rectal tube.
(9) A case of sigmoid volvulus in pregnancy with a rare successful conclusion by conservative management is described and discussed, with a review of the literature.
(10) The Michaelis constants for PEP, GDP and KHCO3 of the PEP-carboxykinase from O. volvulus were determined to be 0.16 mM, 0.15 mM and 20 mM, respectively; those of the enzyme from O. gibsoni were 0.16 mM, 0.13 mM and 12 mM.
(11) An anomaly of the position of the midgut in a pregnant woman predisposes to volvulus.
(12) Experiments were carried out to see whether antigenic diversity among Ochocerca volvulus worms might contribute to these features.
(13) In all infected chimpanzees the in vitro cellular reactivity to O. volvulus adult worm-derived Ag (OvAg) increased significantly after exposure to third-stage larvae.
(14) Usual complications are a perforation of ectopic gastric mucosa (possibly with intestinal bleeding), an invagination and a volvulus.
(15) Recoveries of O. volvulus L4 larvae from chambers given to normal or T-cell deprived mice were equivalent to one another and to those obtained with O. lienalis.
(16) To identify possible immune mechanisms in human onchocerciasis, we compared a group of 12 individuals who had no clinical or parasitological evidence of infection, despite ongoing exposure to the parasite, with a group of 16 individuals from the same area who had active Onchocerca volvulus infection.
(17) Total gastrectomy is rarely indicated in childhood and when necessary it involves multiple ulterior therapeutic problems, mainly nutritional, which need a meticulous physiological approach to avoid further complications, as illustrated by the following patient who, at age 15 months, was submitted to total gastric resection, Y en Roux esophagojejunal anastomosis and splenectomy, because of peritonitis secondary to dehiscence of a recent esophagogastric anastomosis for partial gastric resection due to gastric volvulus and necrosis, which in turn were associated to diaphragmatic relaxation.
(18) In the case of filarial worms, MBP is deposited on degenerating microfilariae (mf) of Onchocerca volvulus.
(19) The effect of two new filaricidal compounds, CGP 6140 and CGP 20376, on the microfilariae of O. volvulus was tested in vitro.
(20) Increased colonic fluid and electrolyte secretion was caused by intermittent sigmoid volvulus and resulted in chronic secretory diarrhea.