What's the difference between bowels and tenesmus?

Bowels


Definition:

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.

Tenesmus


Definition:

  • (n.) An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take place, although none can be effected; -- always referred to the lower extremity of the rectum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Postoperative minor rectal bleeding and rectal tenesmus resolved in a few days.
  • (2) Tenesmus, dysuria, hematuria, and pollakiuria occurred in all dogs, but the severity of these signs diminished with time.
  • (3) The protozoon Blastocystis hominis may cause episodes of diarrhoea with abdominal pain, tenesmus, fever and eosinophilia.
  • (4) There were no instances of recurrence of hemorrhage, fistulas, perineal pain or tenesmus.
  • (5) Their clinical features included serious dyschesia demanding longer time and strength, tenesmus, and slender stool.
  • (6) Thirty-one patients (38 per cent) had ETAR for palliation: in this group rectal bleeding was abolished or improved in 66 per cent of patients, altered bowel habit (diarrhoea) corrected in 77 per cent of patients, faecal incontinence improved in 50 per cent of patients and rectal pain (including tenesmus) improved in 50 per cent of patients.
  • (7) For the nine patients who received 5-FU at the recommended dose level the median low counts were WBC 3.5 (2.2-4.0), HGB 10.3 (9.0-12.3), and PLT (x 1000) 167 (133-280), and the incidence of any grade greater than or equal to 3 toxicity was 22% diarrhea, 17% tenesmus, and 22% frequent bowel movements.
  • (8) Common clinical signs included hematuria, altered micturition (pollakiuria, dysuria, urinary incontinence), and tenesmus.
  • (9) At 6.4 months' follow-up, two patients had recurrent tenesmus and two required a colostomy.
  • (10) Other examples of pain which may be resistant to treatment with opioid analgesics are bladder and rectal tenesmus, pancreatic pain, and pain associated with decubitus ulcers or other superficial ulcers subjected to pressure or shearing forces.
  • (11) Blastocystis hominis may sometimes be found in feces in sufficient quantities to cause symptoms of diseases such as diarrhea abdominal pain, nausea, tenesmus, fever, itching and slight acidocytosis.
  • (12) It seemed that patients with severe side effects such as bladder tenesmus and urinary infection, have a long tumor-free period.
  • (13) The foremost perioperative consideration beyond the use of effective restraint is the management of tenesmus in horses with rectal tears or prolapses.
  • (14) Symptoms were tenesmus rectal urge, pain, thin feces and mucosanguinolent discharge.
  • (15) We describe the case of a woman with rectorrhagia and rectal tenesmus.
  • (16) A 42-yr-old woman with long-standing ulcerative colitis of the descending colon, sigmoid, and rectum presented with bloody diarrhea, tenesmus, and high fever.
  • (17) Five patients developed rectal bleeding, tenesmus, and increased frequency of stools, lasting up to 12 days.
  • (18) The most common symptoms were rectal bleeding (70%), mucus diarrhea (44%), constipation (22%), and tenesmus (19%).
  • (19) Tenesmus and obstipation began shortly after pelvic injury in 3 cats and 5 to 12 months after injury in the remaining cats.
  • (20) Three patients in each group were withdrawn because of clinical deterioration but both treatments produced significant clinical improvement with decreases in stool frequency and scores for urgency, bleeding and tenesmus.

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