What's the difference between discharge and lochia?

Discharge


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.
  • (v. t.) To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar.
  • (v. t.) To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
  • (v. t.) To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
  • (v. t.) To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner.
  • (v. t.) To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo.
  • (v. t.) To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
  • (v. t.) To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
  • (v. t.) To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt; to relieve one's self of, by fulfilling conditions, performing duty, trust, and the like; hence, to perform or execute, as an office, or part.
  • (v. t.) To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
  • (v. t.) To give forth; to emit or send out; as, a pipe discharges water; to let fly; to give expression to; to utter; as, to discharge a horrible oath.
  • (v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid.
  • (v. i.) To throw off or deliver a load, charge, or burden; to unload; to emit or give vent to fluid or other contents; as, the water pipe discharges freely.
  • (v. t.) The act of discharging; the act of relieving of a charge or load; removal of a load or burden; unloading; as, the discharge of a ship; discharge of a cargo.
  • (v. t.) Firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery.
  • (v. t.) Act of relieving of something which oppresses or weighs upon one, as an obligation, liability, debt, accusation, etc.; acquittance; as, the discharge of a debtor.
  • (v. t.) Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc.; fulfillment, as by the payment of a debt, or the performance of a trust or duty.
  • (v. t.) Release or dismissal from an office, employment, etc.; dismission; as, the discharge of a workman by his employer.
  • (v. t.) Legal release from confinement; liberation; as, the discharge of a prisoner.
  • (v. t.) The state of being discharged or relieved of a debt, obligation, office, and the like; acquittal.
  • (v. t.) That which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document.
  • (v. t.) A flowing or issuing out; emission; vent; evacuation; also, that which is discharged or emitted; as, a rapid discharge of water from the pipe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Veterans admitted to a 90-day alcoholism treatment program were administered the MMPI, and those who completed the program were retested before discharge.
  • (2) All patients were discharged home from two to six days after surgery (mean (SD) 3.7 (1.2) days).
  • (3) Analysis of conjugated discharges ACHs showed that they appeared predominantly periodically (87% of cases).
  • (4) On the other hand, the limbic after-discharges to the hippocampal or amygdaloid stimulation were enhanced by Z. mioga as well as chlorpromazin, but they were inhibited by diazepam.
  • (5) None of the children in the study showed clinical symptoms of acquired subglottic stenosis before discharge from hospital, and none has been readmitted for this condition subsequently.
  • (6) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
  • (7) Of the 16 cases, 14 (88%) were diagnosed as TSS or probable TSS by the attending physician, although only nine (64%) of the 14 diagnosed cases were given the correct discharge code.
  • (8) The records of 148 geriatric patients discharged from the Royal Ottawa Hospital over an 18-month period were studied.
  • (9) We conclude that neuronal activities in the region of the retrofacial nucleus are important both in the integration of stimuli from the central chemoreceptors and in defining the discharge patterns of respiratory neurons.
  • (10) This effect of adrenalectomy on MNE excitability was further demonstrated by recording directly the neostigmine-induced repetitive neural discharges responsible for the muscle fasciculations.
  • (11) The present investigation has shown that the atrial receptors with a Paintal Type A pattern of discharge are relatively rare in both dogs and rabbits.
  • (12) Further analysis of these changes according to smoking history, age, preoperative weight, dissection of IMA, and aortic cross-clamp time showed that only IMA dissection affected the postextubation changes in peak expiratory flow rate (p less than 0.0001), whereas the decreases in functional residual capacity and expiratory reserve volume at discharge were affected by IMA dissection (p less than 0.05) and age (p = 0.01).
  • (13) At the end of the dusting period those animals treated with normally charged dust had significantly more chrysotile retained in their lungs than animals exposed to discharged dust.
  • (14) The periodic pattern was assumed as subclinical focal seizure discharges from the right anterior temporal deep structures.
  • (15) By this action, oxytocin is believed to increase the probability of successful regenerative spikes and thereby initiate electrical activity in quiescent preparations, increase the frequency of burst discharges, the number of spikes in each burst, and the amplitude of spikes in individual cells.
  • (16) Earlier recognition of foul-smelling mucoid discharge on the IUD tail, or abnormal bleeding, or both, as a sign of early pelvic infection, followed by removal of the IUD and institution of appropriate antibiotic therapy, might prevent the more serious sequelae of pelvic inflammation.
  • (17) Before discharge, subjects rated six out of the seven content areas as "important" for learning.
  • (18) Functional status on admission measured by the Katz ADL was the most powerful predictor of functional status at discharge.
  • (19) The letters of discharge or the case records were obtained for all patients under one year for the entire period and for all patients over one year for the period 1984-1986, a total of 627 persons.
  • (20) Moreover, the majority of the 'out of phase' units showed an increased discharge during side-up animal tilt and side-down neck rotation.

Lochia


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) The discharge from the womb and vagina which follows childbirth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Symptomatology perceived incorrectly as abnormal: a) In pregnancy: Frequent urination: 17 per cent, morning nausea in the 1st trimester: 9 per cent, emotional instability: 21 per cent, Braxton Hicks contractions: 41 per cent, and b) Postpartum period: Decreased quantity in lochia rubra: 9 per cent, non-fetid lochia alba: 43 per cent, calostrum: 20 per cent.
  • (2) The symptom most frequent were fever (100), foul-smelling lochia (61.1%) and uterine tenderness (60%).
  • (3) Cytologic analysis of lochia in 118 puerperae helped distinguish 5 types of cytograms.
  • (4) b) In puerperium: Increased quantity in lochia rubra: 17 per cent, fever: 22 per cent, fetid lochia: 28 per cent, and c) In breastfeeding: Breasts red and warm: 48 per cent, fever: 30 per cent, nipple fissures: 70 per cent.
  • (5) Results of the serological examinations of blood, collected simultaneously with the lochia samples, correlated fairly well with those obtained microscopically.
  • (6) Of the lochia samples collected from 210 cows and heifers within 12-24 h after parturition or abortion, 10.9% were bacteriologically positive.
  • (7) Cases were significantly more likely to have foul lochia (51.1% vs. 20%; p = .005) and abdominal pain (77.1% vs. 46.7%; p = .02).
  • (8) The median total duration of lochia was 33 days, lochia rubra 4 days and lochia serosa 22 days.
  • (9) Passage of lochia in the urine, instead of through the cervix has not been described in the literature.
  • (10) Characteristics that identify normal lochia are reviewed, as are important nursing assessment parameters.
  • (11) BHV4 was isolated from the lochia from 55% of the animals on farm A and 66% of those on farm B.
  • (12) Each woman completed a diary sheet describing the colour and duration of her lochia for up to 60 days post partum.
  • (13) The clinical picture was preceded by skin rash which became a pyoderma, and ended up as desquamation; there were several alterations: hepatic, renal, hematological (disseminated intravascular coagulation) and digestive (gastroenteritis); and Staphylococcus aureus (coagulase positive) was isolated from the skin, lochia, coproculture; and they were negative to this microorganism the ones from blood, urine and pharynx.
  • (14) The strains from the lochiae and placenta as well as those from the organs of sheep were detected already as primocultures on commonly used blood agar, the other strains after varying periods of cold enrichment and subsequent inoculation on a solid selective medium with nalidixic acid and acriflavin.
  • (15) The phases of lochia were divided according to the classical description; lochia rubra, serosa and alba.
  • (16) From October 1977 to May 15, 1989 in Slovakia 39 strongly haemolytic strains of L. ivanovii were isolated from a woman after delivery of a stillborn foetus--from the lochiae, placenta and rectal smear, from five symptom-free subjects from the faeces, from the rectal smears of two sheep, from the intestinal contents in the portion of the terminal ileus from 28 free living small terrestrial mammals, one strain from meat--beef steak, from the lungs, liver and kidneys of a dead young sheep and one strain from silage.
  • (17) 213 lochia samples and 196 urine samples from pregnant women have been examined.
  • (18) The duration of lochia was shorter in parous women and women with smaller babies.
  • (19) A history of foul lochia (p less than 0.01) and abdominal pain (p = 0.02) were associated with postpartum endometritis.
  • (20) The effect of the sulfonamide in the drug "Solupront" is impaired after application in the uterus in order of the quick absorption, of distribution and excretion and also in order of dilution by lochia and by interaction with p-aminobenzoic acid.