What's the difference between cavitary and cavity?

Cavitary


Definition:

  • (a.) Containing a body cavity; as, the cavitary or nematoid worms.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
  • (2) Pathological examination was carried out and a cavitary lesion with discontinuous longitudinal extension was found throughout the corpus callosum.
  • (3) In a noncontracting in vitro preparation of combined right and left atria we demonstrated by electron microscopy that, at 37 degrees C, transition from zero pressure to a physiological distending pressure of 5.1 mm Hg rapidly rendered atrial endocardial endothelium permeable to the macromolecular probes horseradish peroxidase (HRP; M(r), approximately 40,000) and wheat germ agglutinin-HRP (M(r), approximately 70,000); each probe was introduced at the atrial cavitary endocardial surface.
  • (4) Traumatic hemobilia is commonly associated with cavitary injuries to the liver, and is classically characterized by a triad of findings: GI bleeding, biliary colic, and jaundice.
  • (5) As the result of experimental and clinical observations the following variants of interstitial electrophoresis are proposed: intrapulmonary, endobronchial, cavitary, intracavitary and combined.
  • (6) Since the treatment of central cavitary necrosis differs considerably from that of these other entities, it is important to differentiate them.
  • (7) We were enlightened by this therapeutic experience, so we attempted combination therapy using pepleomycin suppositories to supplement intra-cavitary irradiation, for the 11 selected patients who were suffering from uterine fluor.
  • (8) Pleural fluid accumulations suspect tuberculosis and anaerobic infections and cavitary shadows, tuberculosis, respectively.
  • (9) This designation was based on the finding in the specimens of tumor-like cavitary structures with blocked bronchus and contents from which abundant growth of aspergillus fumigatus was invariably obtained in cultures.
  • (10) Three patients were judged to be prohibitive operative risks despite the need for urgent drainage of cavitary pulmonary lesions.
  • (11) Simultaneous determination of pancreatic proteases, alpha-amylase, lactase and alkaline phosphatase in 2-, 6- and 28-month rats showed deep alterations on the level of cavitary and membrane digestion.
  • (12) A 24 year old man, who presented with typical necrotizing granulomatous sinus disease and cavitary pulmonary lesions, had multiple bilateral renal arterial aneurysms demonstrated angiographically.
  • (13) A case of cavitary pneumonia and recurrent bacteremia with R. equi in a patient with AIDS is reported, and the current literature on R. equi infections in humans is reviewed.
  • (14) As the pneumonia resolved, areas of consolidation were replaced by cavitary lesions.
  • (15) Cavitary changes in the periventricular white matter and cortical ulegyria in the border zones of the major cerebral arteries vascularization were characteristic of perinatal hypoxic-ischemic lesions.
  • (16) Massive hemoptysis in patients with tuberculosis is reported infrequently and then virtually always in association with cavitary disease or aspergilloma.
  • (17) Lacunae are small cavitary softenings observed on pathological examination and must be differentiated from cribriform cavities which are dilatations of perivascular space with or without impairment of the surrounding nervous tissue.
  • (18) Two children with active disease were infected with human immunodeficiency virus, 1 of whom died with cavitary tuberculosis.
  • (19) Primary cavitary lung cancers had relatively thick walls, irregular internal and outer contours, and the location of the cavity was more often central.
  • (20) Although the radiographic picture is variable, nocardiosis should be suspected in an HIV-positive patient who has subacute pulmonary disease with an unexplained lung mass or cavitary lesions.

Cavity


Definition:

  • (n.) Hollowness.
  • (n.) A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The content of the cavities was not stained by any of the immunocytochemical reactions applied.
  • (2) Membranes of this material were filled with islets of Langerhans and implanted in the peritoneal cavity of rats.
  • (3) In three of these patients this was associated with the presence of a previously well established abscess cavity.
  • (4) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
  • (5) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
  • (6) In the 12 prognostically most favourable ears the cavity was repneumatized.
  • (7) Scintigraphic pictures of the uterine cavity and oviducts were obtained with a Jumbo Toshiba gamma-camera; they were subsequently analysed by an Informatek SIMIS-3 data processing system.
  • (8) The cercaria, microcercous in type, is liberated and actively penetrates a second terrestrial pulmonate where development to the free metacercarial stage takes place in the pericardial cavity.
  • (9) A new technique to obliterate the mastoid volume or to reduce an old cavity by means of hydroxyapatite granulate is presented.
  • (10) In general, air from the mediastinum far more often enters the left pleural cavity than the right one.
  • (11) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
  • (12) The rational surgical methods of treatment in 85 patients with suppurative hepatic echinococcosis penetrating into the abdomen cavity are presented.
  • (13) Finally, carcinoma of the oral cavity in India can be said to be at least two diseases.
  • (14) A pilot study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of gas in the puerperal endometrial cavity and to determine whether this finding has any relationship to the mode of delivery or to the development of puerperal endometritis.
  • (15) The authors present a quite unused technique that helps to simplify the cavity preparation in Operative Dentistry.
  • (16) In several eyes, apparent intraretinal blood-filled cavities were seen acutely in the macular region and elsewhere.
  • (17) These views are very practical for inferior synovial cavity arthrograms performed in the dental operatory since panoramic radiographic machines have become common in modern dental practices.
  • (18) Aspergillomas generally arise from saprophytic colonization of a pre-existing pulmonary cavity with Aspergillus, and may be complicated by life-threatening hemoptosis.
  • (19) Failues of PAFD occurred primarily with the presence of phlegmonous collections and cavities with fistulous connection to bowel.
  • (20) n. from the body cavity of Scomber scombrus from the Indian ocean is described.

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