(n.) The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the same time the duodenum can be isolated from the stomach and maintained under constant stimulus by a continual infusion at regulated pressure, volume and temperature into the distal cannula.
(2) However, there was not a relationship between the contraction curve of the gallbladder and the bile flow into the duodenum.
(3) The CL was also longer in the duodenum, whereas the CD was shortened, indicating a reduction of the wave movements from the stomach antrum to the duodenum in the ranitidine periods.
(4) Blunt trauma to the epigastrum may result in a retroperitoneal hematoma involving the head of the pancreas and descending duodenum.
(5) In both the gastric antrum and the duodenum, the first appearance of CCK-li preceded the functional activity of its target tissues.
(6) Although 25 Gy IORT plus 50 Gy EBRT was tolerated by the duodenum to 135 days, these doses may cause later pancreatic injury as an expression of damage to blood vessels and ducts.
(7) Peak serum insulin concentrations and integrated insulin secretion were also significantly greater with perfusion of the duodenum or proximal jejunum.
(8) The performed studies covered the effect of tuftsin, tetrapeptide stimulating many components of immunological reactions, to histamine concentration in lungs, kidneys, liver, duodenum as well as in the blood of rabbits and guinea-pigs.
(9) Experimental diversion of the bile flow from the lumen of the duodenum has little effect on the relative percentage of methadone vs. metabolites circulating in the blood.
(10) As many as 72 patients with erosive and ulcerous injuries to the stomach and duodenum were examined for the clinical efficacy of antepsin (sucralfate).
(11) The studies allow the interpretation that retention of food in the diverticula is not the reason for the bacterial miscolonization of the duodenum and the biliary tract, but in patients with diverticula a disturbed self-cleaning mechanism is present.
(12) The head and body of the pancreas between the stricture and the duodenum were normal.
(13) Metoprolol was introduced into the stomach with a homogenized meal containing a nonabsorbable marker, [14C]-PEG 4000, and another marker, PEG 4000, was perfused continuously into the duodenum just below the pylorus.
(14) Endoscopic evaluation of the stomach and duodenum was performed, with separate registration of the duodenum distally to the duodenal bulb.
(15) Varicose fibres were found in the myenteric plexuses of the duodenum, jejunum, ileum and colon.
(16) Villous tumors of the duodenum are rare, but treatment may be problematic because of their association with invasive adenocarcinoma.
(17) At pH 6.0, the pH of the duodenum, there is appreciable lipolytic activity in the presence of bile salts.
(18) During subsequent studies, hepatic bile flow was measured, and bile was returned to the duodenum through an externalized duodenal catheter.
(19) In 18 of the 118 stomachs the focal concentration of the parietal cells near the duodenum was greater than the other part of the antrum, reaching more than 50% of the parietal cells of the average fundic gland.
(20) Endoscopy and intragastral pH-metry were used to investigate the stomach and duodenum.