(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.
Empyema
Definition:
(n.) A collection of blood, pus, or other fluid, in some cavity of the body, especially that of the pleura.
Example Sentences:
(1) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
(2) In a retrospective study 94 consecutive patients with verified empyema caused by pneumonia were admitted to the department of either pulmonary medicine or thoracic surgery.
(3) In four of the empyemas, PCD was used successfully after incomplete or unsuccessful chest tube drainage.
(4) Two-thirds of the respiratory infections occurred in the first 3 postoperative months and were generally localized processes (focal pneumonitis, nodule(s), abscess, or empyema).
(5) Foremost among the predisposing factors were measles (25%), empyema thoraxis (17%), and unconsciousness (13%).
(6) A rare case of pseudomonal empyema is reported in this clinical setting.
(7) In the treatment of 31 cases of acute infections of pediatric field including upper and lower airway infections, empyema, whooping cough, acute urinary tract infections and phlegmon, CMNX was administered intravenously either as one shot injection as drip infusion.
(8) Five patients were treated for recurrent, spontaneous pneumothoraces, for which blebectomies were done; three patients for pulmonary nodules, for which wedge resections were done; one patient for cryptogenic pleural effusion; one patient for debridement of an empyema cavity; one patient for traumatic bronchopleural fistula; and one patient with AIDS for interstitial lung disease.
(9) That is why the open abscess treatment will continue to be justified for all cases where cerebral abscesses occur in combination with subdural or epidural empyemas.
(10) A 40-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of acute empyema localized in the right lower posterior pleural space.
(11) Pleural effusion or empyema was seen in 22 of 105 patients (21%) with acute disease and four of 31 (13%) with chronic disease.
(12) The overall postoperative mortality rate was similar in the 3 groups (respectively 8%, 8% and 5%), as well as the occurrence of empyema (respectively 4%, 3% and 5%).
(13) Acute cholecystitis was found at operation in 33 patients (28%), empyema in nine (7.6%), gangrene of the gallbladder in three (2.5%), and 24 patients (20.3%) were found to have common bile duct stones.
(14) Our procedure is indicated in patients for whom it is thought simple decortication will not lead to primary cure of empyema.
(15) Successful treatment depends to a large extent on adequate dependent drainage of the empyema space.
(16) The third patient died because of a toxically induced left cardiac decompensation with sepsis that could not be controlled by antibiotic drugs and multiple joint empyemas.
(17) Complications that were managed conservatively included splenic puncture, false aneurysm, laceration of the renal artery, arteriovenous fistula, hemorrhage requiring transfusion, pneumothorax-empyema, urinoma, septic shock and the hemolysis-hyponatremia-renal shutdown syndrome.
(18) Both the empyema thoracis and the ankle infection were due to Pseudomonas pseudomallel.
(19) A previously fit woman developed a sore throat followed by bilateral empyema and pericarditis due to haemophilus influenzae capsular type b.
(20) Of whom 5 died of bronchovascular fistulas, respiratory failure, empyema, or spontaneous pneumothorax.