(a.) Of or pertaining to the caecum, or blind gut.
(a.) Having the form of a caecum, or bag with one opening; baglike; as, the caecal extremity of a duct.
Example Sentences:
(1) The use of the pellet binder "Lingnosol FG" in broiler diets at three levels plus a control group revealed differences in the consistency, quantity and color of the caecal contents between the treated and untreated groups.
(2) The surviving test hamsters were killed after 14 days and, in most cases, were colonised by C. difficile, though levels of toxins A and B in caecal contents were low.
(3) All animals were capable of adapting to 20% dietary xylitol and an accompanying enhancement of the ability of caecal and faecal flora to utilize xylitol was observed.
(4) The animals were fitted with ileo-caecal re-entrant cannulas.
(5) It is proposed that the prime site of somatostatin action was in the abomasal to caecal region, where somatostatin-secreting D cells are found in greatest concentration, that effects observed in the large intestine and rumen may represent secondary compensatory mechanisms and that the effects observed were due to direct action of somatostatin and were not mediated by other GI hormones.
(6) In the proximal caecal tract, the lamina propria showed the highest growth rate, while in the distal tract, the caecal wall component the subserous stratum did.
(7) The pectin supplement reduced protein concentration in jejunal contents while cellulose reduced protein concentration in the ileal and caecal contents.
(8) Electrolyte transport across rabbit caecal epithelium was investigated in vitro using conventional short-circuiting and radioisotope techniques.
(9) The caecal mucosa of wild young and adult grouse infected naturally with Trichostrongylus tenuis was examined by means of scanning electron microscopy and compared with adult grouse which had been treated with an anthelmintic.
(10) In (a) postprandial SVA energy measurements were greater (SVA [*X (SEM)] = 406,933 (98,224] and oral to caecal transit of the solid meal was more rapid (OCTT = *90 (29) min) in the severe diarrhoea patients [postgastrectomy] than either the mild diarrhoea group (*SVA = 235,317 (50,780); *OCTT = *199 (42) min) or normal volunteers (*SVA = 212,062 (27,153); *OCTT = 242 (19) min) [p less than 0.01 for SVA and OCTT].
(11) An increase in caecal and colonic uptake of cholesterol was observed after the surgical operation.
(12) Of 155 patients with a subsequently confirmed alternative condition, ultrasonography made the correct diagnosis in 140: bacterial ileocaecitis (69), mesenteric lymphadenitis (eight), gynaecological conditions (34), urological conditions (eight), caecal diverticulitis (six), perforated peptic ulcer (six), Crohn's disease (two) and miscellaneous conditions (seven).
(13) Caecal crypt cell production rate, as determined stathmokinetically at 28 weeks, was not consistently affected by transposition.
(14) Diversion with a continent caecal reservoir was associated with fewer stoma-related problems and seemed to allow the patients greater freedom to continue activities such as sport, travel and social life.
(15) Moreover, caecal lesions induced by E tenella were more severe in chickens given both E tenella and E coli than in those given E tenella alone.
(16) This poses problems in the safety evaluation of such additives, both in relation to the significance of the caecal enlargement and to the associated effects on food efficiency and nitrogen balance.
(17) Changes in the amount and distribution of acid and alkaline phosphatase, non-specific esterase, glycogen, lipid and acid mucopolysaccharide in the caecal wall and liver of turkey poults infected with Histomonas meleagridis have been studied histochemically.
(18) The mean total C perfringens counts in the caecal contents increased at five days after E tenella inoculation and reached maximum counts at seven days after the inoculation.
(19) It is postulated that complete transmural rupture of the caecum was prevented by partial decompression of caecal air into the bowel wall.
(20) I report a case of intestinal pseudo-obstruction, spontaneous caecal perforation and faecal peritonitis caused by an overdose of amitriptyline.
Caecum
Definition:
(n.) A cavity open at one end, as the blind end of a canal or duct.
(n.) The blind part of the large intestine beyond the entrance of the small intestine; -- called also the blind gut.
Example Sentences:
(1) The remaining case had a calibre persistent submucosal artery within the caecum that was found incidentally in a resection specimen.
(2) The bacteriostatic effect was evident both in the small intestine and in the distal part of the intestine containing caecum and colon.
(3) Binding studies with iodinated motilin revealed that in the small intestine motilin receptor density decreased aborally, disappeared in the caecum but returned in the colon and rectum.
(4) The average rates of development of the contractile and relaxation phases and their relative dependence in the acetylcholine contractile effect, after treatment with papaverine, prostaglandines E1 and F2 alpha and BaCl2, are tested on longitudinal and circular smooth muscles of guinea-pig caecum.
(5) Basic amino acids (Arg, Lys, His) stimulate the absorption of serine and threonine from the caecum of pigs.
(6) The stimulatory effect of acetylcholine on ir-TRH release from the rat caecum was blocked with an addition of atropine.
(7) Surgery of the perforated caecum and ampulla recti was carried out during the first 24 hours, and that of the sigmoid flexure on the seventh day.
(8) Cold storage (2 degrees C) treatment progressively reduced noradrenaline uptake by the taenia caecum of the guinea-pig.
(9) Hence, the radiological correlate of the pseudo-obstruction of the colon is not specific, but it does supply a pointer to the disease of its shows dilation of the caecum, colon ascendens and colon transversum with air-pockets and reflected imaging as well as a usually not dilated colon descendens with remarkably little air.
(10) Single cells were prepared from the guinea-pig taenia caecum and used for the study of drug-receptor interactions.
(11) This paper describes the embryology, anatomy, basic pathology and clinical features of the condition with characteristic X-rays showing the patent foramen caecum and outlines the operative repair.
(12) These results suggest that the inhibitory action of dehydrocorydaline on the relaxation or contraction, produced by nicotine and electrical nerve stimulation, is due to blockade of noradrenaline release from the adrenergic nerve terminals in both the taenia caecum and pulmonary artery.
(13) The present data cast doubt upon so-called "descending of the caecum" described in current textbooks of embryology.
(14) Attempts at extra-cranial repair have met little success as they do not take into account the basic embryology and anatomy of the condition and fail to tackle the sac at the patent foramen caecum, the neck of the sac.
(15) In later stages, on human embryos of 11 to 16 mm (37 to 44 days of age; Carnegie stages 16 to 18), the mesoblastic anlage of the appendix is more evident, but it is not invaded by the entoblastic cells which come from the caecum on embryos of 12 to 13 mm.
(16) Necropsy revealed no notable drug related abnormalities except in caecum of all test groups.
(17) The relationship between the sensitivity (the pD2 value) of carbachol and the density (the total concentration of receptors) of muscarinic receptors using single cells from the guinea pig taenia caecum prepared with a mixture of crude collagenase and trypsin inhibitor, purified collagenase alone, and a mixture of purified collagenase and papain was examined.
(18) In all the animals, enterokinase values were unequivocally the highest in the duodenal mucosa; in the other intestinal segments it displayed a marked aboral decrease, so that we found about 30% of duodenal activity in the jejunum, trace amounts in the ileum and zero values in the caecum and the sigmoid flexure.
(19) In controls, ileal emptying was faster, peak % counts in the caecum were higher, and ileocaecal clearance was greater than in those with IBS.
(20) The caecum and colon were left in place and their contents slowly emptied through a cannula located in the distal colon; accordingly, no food arrived in this caeco-colic compartment.