What's the difference between cavity and paracentesis?
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.
Paracentesis
Definition:
(n.) The perforation of a cavity of the body with a trocar, aspirator, or other suitable instrument, for the evacuation of effused fluid, pus, or gas; tapping.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients with pleural effusion, pneumothorax, or ascites showed a significant increase in plasma arginine vasopressin levels, and thoracocentesis or paracentesis resulted in a decrease in these levels.
(2) The onset of ascites (as an index of sodium retention) in cirrhotic rats was estimated by sequential paracentesis.
(4) Several studies have shown that therapeutic paracentesis plus i.v.
(5) Diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations for suspected gram-negative endophthalmitis are presented and include: immediate paracentesis of the eye for gram stain and culture, systemic therapy with an antibiotic such as gentamicin and either subconjunctival, subtenon or intraocular injection of antibiotics.
(6) Catheter insertion or paracentesis guided by computed tomography has been used to accomplish nonoperative drainage of symptomatic postoperative mediastinal effusion in six cases.
(7) These results indicate that hemaccel infusion may safely replace albumin infusion after total paracentesis for cirrhotic patients with refractory ascites.
(8) To assess the risk of development of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in relation to ascitic fluid opsonic activity, routine admission abdominal paracentesis was performed on 119 patients during 141 hospitalizations.
(9) Paracentesis proved important in cases of haemoperitoneum.
(10) This reliable diagnostic method is completely harmless and less traumatic than paracentesis.
(11) It has been recently reported that repeated large volume paracentesis (LVP) is a safe and efficacious procedure to treat cirrhotics with tense ascitis.
(12) A prospective study of the use of abdominal paracentesis in the diagnosis of suspected ectopic pregnancy was carried out.
(13) These results confirm the relevance of the quickly performable and complicationless suprapubic paracentesis of the bladder as diagnostic method.
(14) In cases of doubt paracentesis abdominis was performed to determine whether there was blood in the peritoneal cavity.
(15) Several therapeutic pathways are possible for the treatment of this complication (paracentesis, reinfusion of chyle, diuretics, total parenteral hyperalimentation, medium-chain triglyceride diet, peritoneovenous shunt, operative closure) and the choice results in an association which is specific for each patient.
(16) Paracentesis was repeated if evidence of peritonitis developed during the hospitalization.
(17) An in vitro culture technique, "living cytology", was used in a single-blind study to study 36 paracentesis and 7 intracystic fluid specimens for possible adenocarcinomatosis.
(18) In 33 children, median age 4 years, with bilateral secretory otitis, adenoidectomy was performed, a grommet was inserted in the right ear, and paracentesis was done on the left side.
(19) Paracentesis of the anterior chamber was done in two cases and revealed Staphylococcus albus to be the causative organism in both instances.
(20) Pericardial paracentesis confirmed the presence of effusion and relieved cardiac tamponade in all the patients.