What's the difference between cavity and exenteration?
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.
Exenteration
Definition:
(n.) Act of exenterating.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pelvic exenteration may play a limited but important role in the therapy of pelvic sarcoma.
(2) He had undergone pelvic exenteration with the ureterostomy for rectal cancer invading the bladder five months previously and retrograde ureteric catheters were inserted bilaterally into the ureters.
(3) In the past, orbital exenteration has been the primary therapy.
(4) The prerequisites to achieve this goal are: the radical exenteration of the mastoid, antrum and epitympanum, the maximal reduction of the volume of the cavity by extensive lateral removal of bone and the adequate shaping of the cavity walls by obliteration of the bone pockets.
(5) Eight patients, 7 after radical cystectomy for bladder cancer and one after total exenteration for rectal cancer, have undergone colon bladder replacement.
(6) Poor perineal healing is a major complication of total or partial pelvic exenteration especially when the pelvis and perineum have previously been irradiated.
(7) In only eight of them a surgical procedure had to be performed during the evolution of the disease (femoral or pelvic osteotomy) because of secondary exenteration of the hip.
(8) Pelvic exenterations were performed, followed by a rapidly fatal outcome (6 and 7.5 months).
(9) Excision of the orbital contents by orbital exenteration is required in the treatment of some eyelid and orbital carcinomas.
(10) A new synthetic absorbable mesh made of polyglactin 910 (Vicryl) fiber was used to reconstruct the pelvic floor in seven women undergoing pelvic exenteration.
(11) After confirmation of an adenoidcystic carcinoma by biopsy, orbital exenteration has to follow as soon as possible.
(12) Anderson Hospital underwent Williams' vulvovaginoplasty for sexual rehabilitation following pelvic exenteration.
(13) Twelve of the 24 pregnant patients had radical hysterectomy with or without irradiation (9 stage I, 3 stage II); of the 7 treated by local therapy (5 stage I, 2 stage II), 3 required additional therapy due to persistent disease; 4 had radiotherapy alone (1 stage I, 2 stage II, and 1 stage III); one had teletherapy followed by exenteration (stage III).
(14) Other methods used were wedge excision and direct approximation in very small lesions involving the lid margin, an infratarsal island flap from the lower eyelid for medium-sized to large defects in the upper lid and a forehead or scalp flap after exenteration of the orbit.
(15) A technique using the frontalis muscle to reconstruct the exenterated orbit is described.
(16) The 5-year survival rate of patients who underwent curative exenteration was 33% (median 27 months).
(17) Report of an unusual intubation in a patient who had had resection of maxilla and exenteration of the orbits.
(18) Experience with these cases strongly indicates the necessity of prompt surgical eradication, including orbital exenteration if necessary, in the treatment of sino-orbital aspergillosis.
(19) The pathological features of the exenterated orbital mass were interpreted as undifferentiated carcinoma, and a lesion of the left lower lobe of the lung that had been removed 6 years earlier had been reported as metastatic malignant melanoma.
(20) Pelvic exenteration offers the only possibility for cure in patients who have pelvic recurrence after receiving optimum amounts of irradiation.