(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.
Spasm
Definition:
(v. t.) An involuntary and unnatural contraction of one or more muscles or muscular fibers.
(v. t.) A sudden, violent, and temporary effort or emotion; as, a spasm of repentance.
Example Sentences:
(1) The generally accepted hypothesis is a coronary spasm but a direct cardiotoxicity of 5-FU cannot be.
(2) Oculomotor paresis with cyclic spasms is a rare syndrome, usually noticeable at birth or developing during the first year of life.
(3) The ophthalmic headache's crisis is caused, in fact, by a spasm of convergence on an unknown exophory of which the amplitude of fusion is satisfying, and the presence of which can only be seen with test under screen.
(4) The present case indicates that the possibility of osseous spines impinging on the facial nerve should be considered in all cases of facial spasm.
(5) The coronary arteriography reveals a spasm in the normal left anterior descendens artery.
(6) Increasing awareness of disorders such as coronary arterial spasm, functional impairment of subendocardial blood flow and the possible role of variant patterns of anatomic distribution of the coronary arterial tree, will provide a better understanding of their significance as determining or contributing factors in patients with the anginal syndrome.
(7) Thus one may speculate that endothelin plays a role in the coronary spasm which has been shown in patients with angina pectoris.
(8) in 1937, the arterial spasm may have occurred at the time of cerebral embolism.
(9) Coronary spasm was provoked by ergonovine maleate in four of 12 patients in group A (33%) and in three patients in group B (18%).
(10) In 2 cases, sublingual nitroglycerin failed to completely relieve the spasm.
(11) Furthermore, an association of tiapride-corticoids was effective in treating post-anaesthetic spasm of the glottis.
(12) Case histories of two patients with hypertensive LES and normal peristalsis in the body of the esophagus are contrasted to that of a patient with a hypertensive LES and diffuse esophageal spasm.
(13) Whether they affect ureteral motility in vivo or whether they can counteract ureteral spasm associated with ureteral stones have not been established.
(14) Thrombotic occlusion, in association with varying degrees of plaque disruption and coronary artery spasm, represents the major cause of acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
(15) The patients with spasm on top of a fixed organic lesion underwent a successful aorto-coronary bypass graft together with resection of the pre- and sub-aortic nerve plexus.
(16) In vitro tests with isolated trachea or ileum of guinea pigs show that flupirtine possesses no or very weak antagonism against histamine-induced spasms.
(17) The spasms were inhibited by gallopamil (100 nM) and diltiazem (1 microM).
(18) Indeed this procedure is the only one which can act in a fitted manner on muscular spasms responsible of more than 60% of convergent squints.
(19) Such an exercise response should suggest significant fixed coronary stenosis in addition to coronary spasm.
(20) Evidence is provided for the concept of enlarged spasms (phenomenon of the spastic dominant) common to peptic ulcer.