(n.) An abnormal sound of several kinds, heard on auscultation.
(v. t.) To report; to noise abroad.
Example Sentences:
(1) The disappearance of the bruit was associated with poor renal function.
(2) Two hundred and forty-one residents were examined for carotid bruits and signs of previous stroke.
(3) Cerebral angiography was performed in 18 of the patients with carotid bruits.
(4) Major intra-abdominal arteriovenous fistulas usually present with a machinery bruit over a pulsatile mass, but may present more subtly with pain and otherwise unexplained hematuria.
(5) An apparently primitive cervical bruit corresponded to a lesion of the carotid bifurcation in 61% of the cases (positive predictive value) whereas a normal bifurcation was detected in 70% of the cases in which the cervical bruit was considered as secondary (negative predictive value); the diagnostic accuracy of the "critical auscultation" has a value therefore of 63%, with a sensitivity of 84% and a specificity of 40%.
(6) In frank strokes it was 3.7%; in transient ischemia, 0.77%; and zero for chronic ischemia and asymptomatic bruits.
(7) Patients with HS bruits had a stroke incidence of 24 per cent and a transient ischemic attack (TIA) incidence of 16 per cent, which were significantly higher (P greater than 0.01) compared to the patients with NHS bruits (4.8% incidence of stroke and 3.2% incidence of TIA).
(8) Vascular disease, epigastric bruit, and impaired renal function were commoner in the renal artery stenosis patients than in the 81 with normal arteriograms, but there were no features pathognomonic of stenosis.
(9) Patients with non-focal neurological symptoms and carotid bruit were more likely to have a significant stenosis than asymptomatic patients with carotid bruit (P = 0.0069 Fisher's Exact Test).
(10) On cardiac examination, a pansystolic bruit and a diastolic rumble were audible at the tricuspid focus.
(11) PAG vascular bruits were characteristic hemodynamic disorders.
(12) The TIAs developed in four patients with HS bruits and in two patients with NHS bruits.
(13) All three patients suffered from pain in the abdomen and back, a palpable pulsatile abdominal mass and an audible continuous harsh bruit.
(14) The prevalence of asymptomatic carotid bruit is 4 per cent in the general population aged over 40 years.
(15) No association was found for diastolic blood pressure, myocardial infarction, angina, diabetes, or carotid bruits.
(16) Phonoangiography, quantitative analysis of arterial bruits, has been shown to provide accurate noninvasive diagnosis of uncomplicated carotid arterial stenosis, but had not been tested where cervical bruits from other sources were present.
(17) A periorbital bruit and venous engorgement of the palpebral and bulbar conjunctivae are pathognomonic features.
(18) Bruits were recorded at the skin surface, analyzed by a minicomputer, and the degree of arterial stenosis estimated using a recently derived theory of sound production by turbulent blood flow.
(19) Phonoangiography, as a noninvasive quantitative analysis of arterial bruits, was conducted just prior to standard invasive radiographic angiography in 135 patients.
(v. t. & i.) To sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, opinions, and errors are disseminated when they are spread abroad for propagation.
(v. t. & i.) To spread or extend by dispersion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Disseminated CMV infection with multiorgan involvement was evident in 7 of 9 at postmortem examination.
(2) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
(3) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
(4) Two cases are presented of bilateral ureteral obstruction and uremia due to pressure from nodes involved in disseminated lymphoma.
(5) Health information dissemination is severely complicated by the widespread stigma associated with digestive topics, manifested in the American public's general discomfort in communicating with others about digestive health.
(6) On the other hand, the injection of minute quantities of endotoxin into PbAc(2)-sensitized rats invariably resulted in disseminated intravascular coagulation, apparently via a complete activation of the intrinsic pathway.
(7) Seven patients have not shown evidence of dissemination, and five are alive 1--15 years (median 9 years) after diagnosis.
(8) Calculations were made to test whether the hypothesis of a multistep dissemination of the tumour from the primary site was likely.
(9) The skin lesions resembled disseminated subacute lupus erythematosus on clinical examination, but actinic granuloma or annular elastolytic giant cell granuloma was seen in biopsy specimens of the lesions.
(10) Among 137 consecutive patients who had a sterile body site cultured for mycobacteria within 3 months of their first AIDS-defining episode of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, median survival was significantly shorter in those with disseminated MAC infection (107 days; 95% confidence interval [CI] 55-179) than those with negative cultures (275 days; 95% CI 230-318; P less than .01), even after controlling for age, absolute lymphocyte count, and hemoglobin concentration.
(11) Acyclovir is commonly used for suppression and treatment of recurrent genital herpes simplex virus and may be indicated for pregnant women with disseminated herpes.
(12) A more regular distribution of these mites on the animals points to the mixing of the mites population that effects the dissemination of agents.
(13) We report the first case (to our knowledge) of disseminated Phialophora parasitica infection.
(14) Myelography and cytology studies are necessary in the evaluation of all newly diagnosed patients with medulloblastoma and may also be indicated for patients with other brain tumors with a known propensity for dissemination.
(15) Splenomegaly in recipient mice suggested systemic dissemination of the local GvHR.
(16) Although the follow-up period is still short, the combined treatment of radiation and pre-radiation chemotherapy appears to be an effective treatment, and has made a major impact upon survival time in cases of disseminated esophageal carcinoma.
(17) A careful study of recurrences after operation, their localization, provides evidence for regarding that 6.9% had primary-multiple, combined, and disseminated affections.
(18) Immune complexes formed in vivo were also purified by conglutinin column from the serum of a patient with disseminated leishmaniasis.
(19) Spinal changes in 13 cases included vacuolar myelopathy (7 cases), HIV myelitis (1 case) and ganglio-radiculitis (1 cases), cytomegalovirus myelo-radiculitis (1 case) secondary spread from a lymphoma (1 case) and spinal infarcts due to disseminated intravascular coagulation (1 case).
(20) This cytotoxic regimen, which has been well tolerated, may prove valuable in the management of disseminated carcinoid tumours.