(n.) A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.
Example Sentences:
(1) In general patients with diarrhoea were more sensitive to stimuli than those with constipation.
(2) Mild clinical signs of diarrhoea were noted in kittens infected experimentally with one of the feline reovirus type 2 isolates.
(3) We conclude that gastric adaptive relaxation remains abnormal in patients with postvagotomy diarrhoea but not in those who are asymptomatic or who have other symptoms.
(4) Two patients had a grade 2 diarrhoea and two patients a grade 2 gastritis.
(5) E. coli strain S22-1, serotype O103:H2, isolated from a child with diarrhoea, contained two plasmids; one of these (pDEP12) hybridized with the CVD419 DNA probe derived from a plasmid found in E. coli O157:H7 and associated with expression of fimbriae and ability to adhere to Intestine 407 cells.
(6) Rabbits given partially-purified CT had diarrhoea for 3 days but none died.
(7) Highly buffered acetylsalicylate was used to treat diarrhoea and other gastrointestinal side-effects of radiotherapy in 28 women who were receiving treatment for uterine cancer.
(8) Our findings suggest that (a) the inclusion of a liquid meal provides a reproducible method of measuring orocaecal transit using the lactulose hydrogen breath test, (b) rapid small bowel transit in thyrotoxicosis may be one factor in the diarrhoea which is a feature of the disease and (c) if altered gut transit is the cause of sluggish bowel habit in hypothyroidism, delay in the colon, and not small bowel, is likely to be responsible.
(9) Piglets from litters with post-weaning diarrhoea had reduced weight gains after weaning and were 2.3 days older at 25 kg bodyweight than piglets from non-diarrhoeic litters.
(10) Pancreatic polypeptide release was reduced in patients with slow transit constipation, but increased in those with functional diarrhoea.
(11) A small number of children with protracted diarrhoea, who have severe mucosal injury may not be able to handle even starch and may require diets based on short chain glucose polymers.
(12) Dehydration and diarrhoea – these are very common here and in the rest of Brazil.
(13) To estimate inaccuracy in a diarrhoea recall survey mothers of pre-school children in Teknaf, Bangladesh were interviewed every week from July 1980 through June 1983.
(14) It is concluded that BEC is the major infectious cause of neonatal calf diarrhoea in the Ethiopian dairy herds studied with RV and K99 ETEC also contributing to morbidity, either alone or as mixed infections.
(15) There were no untoward clinical laboratory side effects with the exception of the one cimetidine patient who experienced diarrhoea and a small number who showed slight, asymptomatic rise in plasma creatinine level.
(16) The toxin-induced diarrhoeal diseases in greatest need of effective vaccines for use in control programmes are cholera and diarrhoea due to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.
(17) In a prospective study we performed small intestinal mucosal biopsies in 40 children with acute rotavirus diarrhoea.
(18) An association between diarrhoea and high level adhesion was observed in that 12 of the 34 faecal isolates and none of the 29 environmental isolates yielded greater than 20 bacteria per HEp-2 cell in the adhesion assay.
(19) About three quarters of the children were cared for at home beyond 12 months of age; those at home had a lower rate of rotavirus diarrhoea than those at day-care centers.
(20) The suspicion of a Zollinger-Ellison-syndrome is aroused by therapy-resistent ulcers, which in every third person are associated with a diarrhoea, by recidivations of ulcer after gastric operations and by a large basal secretion of acid.
Ped
Definition:
(n.) A basket; a hammer; a pannier.
Example Sentences:
(1) Qa-2 antigen expression was used as a marker for the Q subregion and fast or slow development was used to assess Ped gene phenotype in backcross embryos generated from the mating of (B6.K1 x B6.K2)F1 and B6.K1 mice.
(2) We recently studied the effects of 4-OHA and other aromatase inhibitors, 10-propargylestr-4-ene-3,17-dione (PED) and imidazo[1,5-alpha]3,4,5,6-tetrahydropyrin-6-yl-(4-benzonitrile) (CGS 16949A) as well as 5 alpha-reductase inhibitors, N,N-diethyl-4-methyl-3-oxo-4-aza-5 alpha-androstane-17 beta-carboxyamide (4-MA) and 17 beta-hydroxy-4-aza-4-methyl-19norandrost-5-en-3-one (L651190) in prostatic tissue from 11 patients with prostatic cancer and six patients with benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH), and from normal men at autopsy.
(3) A simple, accurate, and practical device was designed for detecting the woman at risk for postpartum emotional disorder (PED).
(4) Hedo Turkoglu was busted for PED use Despite the fact that the use of performance enhancing drugs is one of the biggest stories in sports today, alongside other notable topics such as imaginary girlfriends and ill-timed power failures, the NBA world seems strangely immune to the controversy.
(5) PEDS Plus broth aids diagnosis of pediatric bacteremia by increasing recovery of etiologic agents and decreasing the time required for detection.
(6) The results of these studies show that the difference in the rate of cleavage division between slow-developing strains (Ped slow) and fast-developing strains (Ped fast) is maintained in vitro.
(7) Initial detection occurred earlier with Bactec Peds Plus, while growth on solid media occurred earlier with Roche Septi-Chek.
(8) Of 7,798 adult patients admitted to a level I trauma center from July 1986 through June 1990, 16.0% (1,246) had greater than or equal to 1 PED.
(9) It appeared on the border of the PED (16 cases) usually temporally, or on the immediate border of the laser scar (4 cases).
(10) The findings, corrobated with other closely comparable observations, suggest that the emergence of PED as an intercurrent mortality problem during rabbit passage of pathogenic Treponema pallidum is the result of a specific selective pressure on a benign passenger virus.
(11) However, the results also demonstrate that several of the PDE inhibitors have effects on central DA mechanisms that are difficult to explain solely on the basis of PED inhibition.
(12) 9.56pm BST More Guardian coverage My colleague Michael Solomon weighs in with a piece that explains the Biogenesis PEDs scandal.
(13) Medium levels of progesterone, a major product of these cells, were found to decrease in a dose- and time-dependent manner upon addition of PED.
(14) PED was elicited either mechanically by employing single or double pressure steps, or electrically by antidromic stimulation of the aortic nerve.
(15) One hundred eighty-one isolates were recovered in both bottles, 75 in PEDS Plus only, and 33 in 6A only (P less than 0.001).
(16) Obvious subretinal new vessels developed in 16 (34%) of the serous PEDs over an average follow-up period of 25 months.
(17) Similarly, neither the position nor curvature of the Ped-Aed relation was changed by ULFS-49.
(18) This is a sign that although MLB and MLBPA are now working together to rid PED's from the game, the union is still prepared to fight for due process which makes a lot of sense from their perspective.
(19) The slow potassium current (Er = -85 mV) evoked in Ped-8 and Ped-9 neurones by glutamate, quisqualate and kainate could be blocked by tetraethylammonium (50 microM).
(20) Meanwhile Bud Selig, who made his pursuit and punishment of those using PEDs a top priority during a controversial, costly and aggressive investigation, is reaching the end of his time as MLB commissioner.