(n.) An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.
(n.) A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to the aqueduct other associated inner ear anomalies have been identified in 60% of this population including: enlarged vestibule (14); enlarged vestibule and lateral semicircular canal (7); enlarged vestibule and hypoplastic cochlea (4); and hypoplastic cochlea (4).
(2) After four years of existence, many evaluations were able to show the qualities of this system regarding root canal penetration, cleaning and shaping.
(3) Digestion is initiated in the gastric region by secretion of acid and pepsin; however, diversity of digestive enzymes is highest in the post-gastric alimentary canal with the greatest proteolytic activity in the spiral valve.
(4) A new theory for the peculiar site selection of cholesteatomas of the external auditory canal is postulated.
(5) In the anesthetized cat, the posterior canal nerve (PCN) was stimulated by electric pulses and synaptic responses were recorded intracellularly in the three antagonistic pairs of extraocular motoneurons.
(6) Two hundred and forty root canals of extracted single-rooted teeth were prepared to the same dimension, and Dentatus posts of equal size were cemented without screwing them into the dentine.
(7) 5 reconstructions of the posterior bony canal wall were moderately sunk in.
(8) The parameters of the air flow in the canal of the separator are established in a graphic way.
(9) It may be explained by an ipsilateral lesion of the posterior canal pathways.
(10) Interlamellar plasmodia are limited by 2 outer unit membranes which give rise to both single-and double-membraned pincytic canals.
(11) Ten patients have undergone abdominal proctocolectomy with the formation of an ileal reservoir anastomosed onto the anal canal using a stapling device.
(12) The hymen was not penetrated as a result of intromission and therefore the site of ejaculation would have been in the urogenital canal of the 4 primigravid elephants.
(13) The cytotoxic effects on cultured rat bone cells of newly-developed root canal sealers and commercially available sealers were compared.
(14) In the external ear canal, residual water from caloric testing or any other irrigation may act to simulate a conductive hearing loss and interfere with subsequent auditory brainstem response recording leading to increased latencies and reduced amplitudes.
(15) The surgeon must have an exact idea of this canal before undertaking operation for plastics of the hernial defect.
(16) All the canals open independently at the surface of the cuticle and the substance deposited there is a mixture of proteins and acid mucosubstances.
(17) The crossing points were investigated in 20 patients and in most cases they existed between 2 cm and 6 cm from the anterior border of the external auditory canal.
(18) It is concluded that the massive destruction of the normal anatomy in the lateral semicircular canal may be the morphological basis of a functional endolymphatic fistula for drainage of the endolymphatic hydrops.
(19) In the series of 50 acoustic neurinomas (AN) the internal auditory canal (IAC) diameter and the diameter difference between the tumor and non-tumor side are compared with the sizes of the AN.
(20) Myelography revealed no abnormality, although magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography after myelography demonstrated a mass within the posterior aspect of the thoracic spinal canal associated with anterior displacement and compression of the spinal cord.
Endoscopy
Definition:
(n.) The art or process of examining by means of the endoscope.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the present study, 125 oesophageal biopsies obtained under direct vision at endoscopy from 22 patients with Barrett's oesophagus were systematically studied using fluorescence and peroxidase antiperoxidase single and double-staining immunocytochemical methods employing highly specific antibodies to localize the following peptide-containing cell types in Barrett's mucosa: gastrin, somatostatin, gastric inhibitory polypeptide, motilin, neurotensin and pancreatic glucagon.
(2) Survival and healing of "extremely severe" grade intoxication can only be obtained through a surgical intervention within the first hours; a laparotomy will indicate the depth of the lesions, which is not determined by endoscopy, and will consist of Celerier's stripping method and if necessary a gastrectomy, more seldom a cephalic duodeno-pancreatectomy.
(3) A patient with abdominal discomfort and hematemesis was found to have lower esophageal inflammation on endoscopy.
(4) Second, is it possible - by combining the two technologies of endoscopy and computers - to provide an individual patient with a short-term prognostic prediction sufficiently accurate to affect patient management.
(5) Its remit was to produce a report on disinfection in endoscopy.
(6) Endoscopy showed an irregular erosion of 4 by 2 cm, from which biopsies were taken.
(7) US was considered normal in 25 of 28 patients (89%) with normal UGI series and endoscopy.
(8) An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy with multiple biopsies was performed in 19 children suspected of Crohn disease (CD) who had also undergone X-ray investigations and colonoscopy with multiple biopsies.
(9) The following investigations were carried out in all the cases: esophageal X-ray, GER scintigram, endoscopy, esophageal biopsy, Bernstein test and esophageal transit scintigram.
(10) The diagnosis of G-E reflux was confirmed in all by the acid reflux test; esophagitis was present in 55% of patients submitted to endoscopy; the Bernstein test was positive in 43%.
(11) For the past 3 yr, we have used a physician assistant in our endoscopy laboratory to assist with and perform endoscopic procedures.
(12) Seventy-three percent of respondents believed that endoscopy places personnel at risk for contracting AIDS.
(13) Reference is made to the world literature and personal experience acquired at the Digestive Endoscopy Centre, 3rd Surgical Clinic, in an assessment of the value of PRC and TPC in the diagnosis of hepatobiliary disease.
(14) Any two of the three tests (endoscopy, histology & Bernstein's test) in combination had a sensitivity of 80-91% and a specificity of 90-92%.
(15) after the endoscopy did not differ significantly from the preendoscopic levels.
(16) The structural block diagram of the appropriate outfit for exposition automation in endoscopy is under discussion.
(17) The urgent endoscopy of the superior gastrointestinal haemorrhage carefully and quickly helps in clarifying the following questions: Is the patient going on bleeding?
(18) Senior surgical residents in their fourth or fifth year of training spent 4 months in the endoscopy service as part of their surgical oncology rotation.
(19) Endoscopy and intragastral pH-metry were used to investigate the stomach and duodenum.
(20) Before the introduction of endoscopy, four out of 720 cases of gastric cancer were diagnosed before the cancer had breached the muscularis propia, an incidence of 0.5%.