(n.) A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.
(n.) A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pathologic examination demonstrates calcifications in the dead collagen that makes up catgut suture.
(2) This proved that all four fistulas were acquired and that they were probably caused by the catgut ligatures used for ampullary ligation.
(3) Personal experience has shown that this complication is not encountered when catgut sutures are employed in stomach operations.
(4) The biocidal effect of iodized Catgut in comparison to other used types of Catgut could not be confirmed.
(5) Compared with catgut their use is associated with about a 40% reduction in short-term pain and need for analgesia.
(6) The authors have gained minimum blood losses when suturing with provisional catgut ligature through the urinary bladder bottom between interureteral fold and internal urethral orifice yet before dessection of adenoma surgical capsule and tumor enucleation.
(7) The narrow lower part is sewed to the nasal mucous membrane with 3 atraumatic catgut sutures.
(8) For many years, we have used 6-0 catgut for closure of epithelial and superficial dermal wound edges.
(9) Oesophageal tissue reaction to different suture materials (chromic catgut, silk, prolene and stainless steel wire) was analysed and compared in 45 cats with and without reflux oesophagitis.
(10) An unusual case of cataract extraction is presented in which 6-0 chronic catgut sutures persisted over 2 years and 8 months and caused repeated attacks of conjunctival inflammation and iritis.
(11) The authors studied the influence of some suture materials (normal and chromic catgut, silk, polygalactic acid and polypropylene) on the process of healing of the small intestine in the rabbit.
(12) The serous surface of the edges of the fenestrated openings is everted with three catgut sutures as a lapel.
(13) Chromic catgut, collagen, and polyglycolic acid sutures, of different sizes, were used.
(14) A stenosis is produced when a rat's transected small intestine is repaired with a conventional inverting line of silk or catgut sutures.
(15) We report a patient with a history of multiple abdominal surgical procedures, eosinophilic cystitis surrounding the suture material, prolonged post-operative pain, and inflammatory masses at the sites of previous surgery associated with a positive delayed hypersensitivity skin reaction to patch test chromate and to intradermal chromic catgut.
(16) Outcome was also similar after skin repair with either polyglycolic acid or chromic catgut or silk, although silk repair required more packets of material and was associated with delay in resuming sexual intercourse; polyglycolic acid was more likely to need removal than chromic catgut but it appeared to reduce the need for resuturing.
(17) The blebs and bullae were ligated with chromic catgut Roeder loop or resected with the Endo-GIA stapler.
(18) A controlled clinical trial was conducted of three methods of closing elective paramedian laparotomy wounds--catgut layer suture alone, catgut layer suture with tension sutures and wire sutures alone.
(19) Rubber gloves (5 patients) disinfectants and chromic catgut were the sensitizing objects.
(20) The Gyne T 380 (Ortho Pharmaceutical, Canada Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada) IUD was modified by the addition of a loose loop of knotted biodegradable no.2 catgut to the top of the IUD (Gyne T 380 postpartum IUD).
Pet
Definition:
(n.) A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand.
(n.) Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a fondling; a darling; often, a favorite child.
(n.) A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness.
(a.) Petted; indulged; admired; cherished; as, a pet child; a pet lamb; a pet theory.
(v. t.) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge; as, she was petted and spoiled.
(v. i.) To be a pet.
Example Sentences:
(1) In cases with unilateral hypoperfusion, the percentage of the activity in the lesion to that in the contralateral normal cortex on the early SPECT was correlated well with that on CBF measured by PET (r = 0.870, p less than 0.001).
(2) However, localizing a functional region with PET has been severely limited by the poor resolving properties of PET devices.
(3) The PET studies suggest dysfunction of the prefrontal cortex as a result of damage to the lentiform nuclei.
(4) If the PET measurement is commenced prior to arteriovenous equilibrium, significant errors occur in calculated CBV.
(5) Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) are now being used to improve the information available from radioisotopic imaging of patients with cancer.
(6) The muscarinic receptor agonist carbachol had no significant effects on [3H]PEt and [3H]IP formation in nontransfected HEK cells.
(7) Appropriate corrections for atrophy should be employed if current PET scanners are to accurately measure actual brain tissue metabolism in various pathologic states.
(8) Using a 1-stage random-digit dial telephone survey, we estimated the number of pet dogs and cats and cancer case ascertainment in the principal catchment area of an animal tumor registry in Indiana, the Purdue Comparative Oncology Program (PCOP).
(9) Such information could be most useful for in vivo receptor visualization studies using positron emission tomography (PET) scanning.
(10) Half the adolescents completed the child maltreatment instrument first, while the rest completed the pet maltreatment instrument.
(11) In this study, PET images were obtained using [18F]-labeled fluorodeoxyglucose, a marker for glucose metabolism.
(12) The global black market in animal and plants, sold as food, traditional medicines and exotic pets, is worth billions and sees an estimated 350 million specimens traded every year.
(13) The distribution of 1-11C-acetoacetic acid after injection into adult Wistar rats and cats was investigated by PET.
(14) If we start letting movie stars – even though they’ve been the sexiest man alive twice – to come into our nation (with pets), then why don’t we just break the laws for everybody?” Joyce said at the time.
(15) We have developed a method that allows two sets of regional cerebral metabolic rates of glucose (rCMRglc) to be obtained in a single extended procedure using positron emission tomography (PET) and [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG).
(16) Metabolic PET studies also give insight into pathophysiologic mechanisms of epilepsy.
(17) In view of the number of PET studies involving low count rate acquisitions, there has been increasing interest recently in the development of positron cameras capable of fully three-dimensional acquisition and reconstruction.
(18) We performed dynamic positron emission tomographic (PET) studies of glucose utilization, using (18F) 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG), in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) and healthy age-matched controls, to evaluate blood-brain-barrier glucose transport and glucose utilization rates in the disease.
(19) We used a 11C-glucose method for positron emission tomography (PET) while estimating cerebral glucose metabolism during human sleep with polysomnography (PSG).
(20) His mother is Denise Welch, late of Corrie and Loose Women, and his father his Tim Healy, who was briefly famous 30 years ago for his role in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.