What's the difference between colon and ileocaecal?
Colon
Definition:
(n.) That part of the large intestines which extends from the caecum to the rectum. [See Illust of Digestion.]
(n.) A point or character, formed thus [:], used to separate parts of a sentence that are complete in themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place of a conjunction.
Example Sentences:
(1) The use of glucagon in double-contrast studies of the colon has been recommended for various reasons, one of which is to facilitate reflux of barium into the terminal ileum.
(2) heterografts of GW-39, a CEA-producing colonic tumor of human origin, was demonstrated in radioimmunoassay using radioiodinated CEA purified from GW-39.
(3) Moreover, the data showed for the first time that DNA synthesis in the bone marrow and spleen and colon were markedly statistically significantly stimulated at specific times after treatment.
(4) An inhibitory effect of hyperthermia was seen for the incorporation of [3H]-leucine into protein of rat hepatoma cells (HTC) and for that of [3H]-thymidine into DNA of human colon cancer (HT29) cells.
(5) We report a retrospective study of 107 cases of carcinoma of the sigmoid colon and upper rectum treated for primary cure at the University of California at Los Angeles Hospital between 1955 and 1970.
(6) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
(7) There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance, impaired gall bladder contraction, and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes.
(8) 16 tube (usually a Baker tube) was inserted by gastrostomy and advanced distally into the colon.
(9) Specific binding of 19-9 was observed in 9 (53%) colon cancers and 4 (36%) gastric cancers.
(10) In normal lymphoreticular tissue, IgGEA selectively bound to areas colonized by macrophages, IgMEAC to B-dependent areas, whereas E showed no adherence.
(11) This result was predicted from a short-term assay measuring defects in nuclear morphology in mouse colon epithelial cells.
(12) Four hundred patients with resectable colon and rectal cancers were operated on by 37 surgeons at 31 institutions.
(13) The clinical course was observed in 50 patients while the remaining 10 were hospitalized and submitted to esophago-gastro-duodenoscopy and colonoscopy both before and after treatment for withdrawal of duodenal secretion and fragments of duodenojejunal and colonic mucosa biopsies.
(14) In 120 consecutive patients who had colonic roentgenologic examination and no depressive sign, two had coccygeal and muscular pain at rectal touch.
(15) The sulfation of ascorbic acid by an ascorbic acid sulphotransferase was investigated using rat liver and colon homogenates.
(16) The radiologic and endoscopic findings in six patients with anisakiasis of the colon were analyzed.
(17) Aspergillomas generally arise from saprophytic colonization of a pre-existing pulmonary cavity with Aspergillus, and may be complicated by life-threatening hemoptosis.
(18) A high average of LI was detected in colon cancer (approximately 13%), but no relationship between LI and the ploidy pattern was found.
(19) The results suggested that a population of patients with gastric and colonic cancers showed improved survival with this treatment.
(20) We describe four cases of actinomycotic intracavitary lung colonization and review the literature on the subject.
Ileocaecal
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to the ileum and caecum.
Example Sentences:
(1) This finding supports the view that their sphincteroid action would be less efficient and that an additional closing mechanism of vascular origin may be required at the ileocaecal papilla of the horse.
(2) Emergency laparotomy was performed after a recurrence of massive bleeding and revealed, 60 cm oral of the ileocaecal (Bauhin's) valve, a Meckel's diverticulum with ulcerated heterotopic gastric mucosa, 5 x 3 x 2 cm in size, and this was resected.
(3) Accordingly, the effect of alpha-adrenergic stimulation and anticholinergic suppression was found to be insufficient to achieve nocturnal continence in patients with ileocaecal bladder replacement.
(4) Of 155 patients with a subsequently confirmed alternative condition, ultrasonography made the correct diagnosis in 140: bacterial ileocaecitis (69), mesenteric lymphadenitis (eight), gynaecological conditions (34), urological conditions (eight), caecal diverticulitis (six), perforated peptic ulcer (six), Crohn's disease (two) and miscellaneous conditions (seven).
(5) In controls, ileal emptying was faster, peak % counts in the caecum were higher, and ileocaecal clearance was greater than in those with IBS.
(6) Bacterial ileocaecitis is most frequently diagnosed (11.6% of N = 786).
(7) The abnormalities at laparotomy were impressive, with a gross proliferation of the visceral peritoneum which formed a dense white cocoon which encased, constricted and markedly shortened the small bowel, usually from the duodenojejunal flexure to the ileocaecal valve.
(8) Unexpectedly, however, ileocaecal ulcers were found in animals of both sexes in both experimental groups and the incidence was dose related.
(9) The colonoscopic findings in 11 patients with early tuberculous colitis included erythema alone in 1 patient (9.1%), mucosal nodules indistinguishable from small adenoma in 8 (72.7%), aphthous ulcers in 3 (27.3%), and a deformed ileocaecal valve in 3 (27.3%).
(10) Bioavailabilities which ranged from 19% for ileocaecal release to 75% for release in the upper gastrointestinal tract, were calculated from areas under the serum concentration curves.
(11) The splenic flexure grows in a distinctly cranial direction, and at almost three times the rate of the ileocaecal junction.
(12) By far the most important condition in this category is volvulus of the ileum close to the ileocaecal valve.
(13) Vitamin A is known to influence the metabolism and differentiation of epithelial tissue and has also been reported to normalize the number of stools after ileocaecal resection for Crohn's disease.
(14) The postoperative course of 44 patients (24 women, 20 men; mean age 31.5 [18-63] years) treated by ileocaecal resection for Crohn's disease was investigated prospectively.
(15) One proved to be a primary gastric carcinoma situated in the area of the Curvatura minor, another a primary carcinoma of the ileocaecal valve and the third one a signet-cell carcinoma in the end of the jejunum.
(16) Five cases of florid lymphoid hyperplasia of the ileocaecal region are described.
(17) The same basic pattern emerged whereby a single papillary artery arising from the R. ilei mesenterialis, supplied all aspects of the ileocaecal papilla.
(18) Of the small bowel variety, the two main types were the ileo-ileal and the ileocolic, while the ileocaecal and the various types of colo-colic intussusception were of large bowel origin.
(19) In accordance with the dual histology of Auerbach's plexus (Dogiel, 1899; Hill, 1927) two types of neurone can be shown to be humorally active in plexus-containing preparations of longitudinal muscle from guinea-pig ileum, taken at measured distances up to 95 cm above the ileocaecal valve, when such preparations are stimulated electrically under different conditions.2.
(20) Ultrasonography revealed an abnormal cockade with triple ring phenomenon at the ileocaecal junction and the "duck-beak phenomenon" as signs of enterocolic intussusception.