(n.) A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera.
(a.) Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the colon; as, the colic arteries.
Example Sentences:
(1) Five horses raced successfully and lowered the lifetime race records, 1 horse was sound and trained successfully, but died of colic, and 1 horse was not lame in early training.
(2) At operation the superior mesenteric artery was found to be occluded distal to the origin of the middle colic artery.
(3) However, when hypoxia occurred during colic surgery in the last 60 days of pregnancy, the mares either aborted or delivered severely compromised foals that did not survive.
(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) Twelve patients with biliary colic had no evidence of gallstones but underwent cholecystokinin-augmented hepatobiliary scintigraphy that revealed gallbladder ejection fractions of less than 35%.
(6) These data were compared with the angiogram of the right superior colic artery supplying the graft, systematically performed on the fifteenth postoperative day, and with the clinical course of follow-up for 3 months.
(7) Of 18 of these cases with available histories, 6 subsequently had one or more episodes of colic since surgery of which 5 eventually died or were euthanased due to further colic; the remaining 12 have remained free from recurrence of colic for longer than 6 months.
(8) A 10-year-old Appaloosa stallion was referred for evaluation of colic.
(9) to treat a colic or to accelerate the spontaneous discharge of stones, seems to be only rarely possible: Glucagone shows a markable decrease of ureteral peristalsis in animal experiments.
(10) A computer-based search was conducted of medical and necropsy records of horses admitted to the teaching hospital from Jan 1, 1979, to Dec 31, 1987, to obtain the records of all horses admitted to the hospital for colic and subsequently found to have gastric rupture.
(11) The results of the clinical use of Bencyclane in cases of ureteric colic are described and discussed.
(12) Those patients in whom repeatedly renal stones had been evident at the time of the operation, reported increased colics with partly spontaneous discharge of stones shortly after the operation; the i.v.p.
(13) Episodes of recurrent macroscopic hematuria also occur, but the pain cannot be attributed to colic due to blood clots in the ureter.
(14) If IH is symptomatic, the symptoms are hematuria, renal colic, or obstructive uropathy with or without infection.
(15) We consider US to be a valuable method in patients with previous contrast media reactions, but recommend urography as the standard imaging method when renal colic is clinically suspected.
(16) The colic graft was anastomosed to the hypopharynx in 43 cases, to the oropharynx in 14 cases, and in 33 cases a pharyngoplasty was done.
(17) Strong associations between exposure to lead and the prevalence of central nervous system symptoms, abdominal colic, and constipation were recorded.
(18) Hemostatic profiles were determined in 30 horses with clinical colic.
(19) Ten successive patients with acute ureteric colic were given 1 mg of glucagon and two litres of fluid administered by the intravenous route and analgesia as required over three hours.
(20) Gastro-colic fistula is a rare complication of benign peptic ulcer disease.
Ileus
Definition:
(n.) A morbid condition due to intestinal obstruction. It is characterized by complete constipation, with griping pains in the abdomen, which is greatly distended, and in the later stages by vomiting of fecal matter. Called also ileac, / iliac, passion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The combination of an over-distended uterus caused by a multiple-fetus pregnancy with therapeutic bed-rest may cause mechanical ileus.
(2) Two of the ten patients developed mild symptoms of (sub)ileus that could be treated conservatively.
(3) The diagnosis of a small intestinal obstruction was made prenatally between the 31st and 36th week of pregnancy in 7 patients with neonatal ileus.
(4) Compared with conventional surgery, the advantages of laparoscopic cholecystectomy are well known: the entire peritoneal cavity is explored; the lack of postoperative ileus makes it possible to resume normal feeding, and hence normal activity, after a short interruption; systemic and parietal complications are less frequent, but the biliary tract complication rate is higher, probably in relation to the operator's training.
(5) The patient subsequently developed paralytic ileus with lesions of the intestinal wall, probably based on ischemia as a result of this arteritis.
(6) Postoperative ileus, nausea, vomiting, and urinary retention were the most common surgical complications.
(7) Adrenoceptor blockade in untreated rats reduced the ileus in response to peritoneal irritation to approximately the same degree as treatment with capsaicin.
(8) Their courses were characterized by significant early postoperative hemodynamic compromise, abdominal distention, ileus, fever, and episodes of late vascular instability associated with hypocalcemia.
(9) Three patients with chronic diarrhoea, paralytic ileus and malabsorption are reported.
(10) Ileus was detected by means of general abdominal sonography from three of 14 of the authors' own patients from whom negative findings had been recorded by X-ray examinations.
(11) The goal of treating postoperative ileus must be decompression of the intestine in order to prevent further development of the disease.
(12) Six cases of lung cancer combined with the disease which has needed semi-emergency operation, two cases of unstable angina, two of ileus due to colon cancer, one of impending rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm and one of purulent cholecystitis with cholelithiasis, were discussed.
(13) As in other published cases of ileus associated with pheochromocytoma, high urinary catecholamine concentrations were found in our patient and the tumor resected at surgery was large.
(14) Patients were evaluated for length of hospital stay, duration of postoperative ileus, adequacy of intraoperative intestinal decompression, gastric dilatation, and operative complications.
(15) Of the remaining 16 patients with unresolved meconium ileus, nine were treated with laparotomy and ileostomy, and one with laparotomy and T-tube irrigation.
(16) Preventive intestinal intubation for ileus prophylaxis in cases of diffuse peritonitis and extended adhesion ileus had often been discredited for the technically demanding and thus time-consuming technique involved.
(17) The most frequent complication was paralytic intestinal ileus.
(18) Aetiopathogenesis, diagnosis as well as typical and atypical courses are described and discussed with regard to 50 patients with gallstone ileus.
(19) He developed stress ulcers, pulmonary thromboembolism, sepsis, paralytic ileus and bilateral ureteral fistula.
(20) The duration of epidural analgesia varied between 1 and 15 days depending on the intensity of symptoms (pain, ileus).