(n.) An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
Example Sentences:
(1) The involvement of the neurological system in epidemic dropsy is controversial.
(2) Papillophlebitis, a new ocular manifestation of Argemone mexicana oil toxicity, as also the fluorescein angiographic picture in epidemic dropsy is being reported for the first time in the literature.
(3) It is concluded that dropsy glaucoma is hypersecretory in nature; prostaglandin and histamine release may have significant roles in its pathogenesis.
(4) During an outbreak of epidemic dropsy in Delhi, 233 patients were studied.
(5) Four cases manifesting features characteristic of epidemic dropsy following body massage with contaminated mustard oil are reported.
(6) Four had large amount of hydropericardium, two had pericardial friction sound, and two had hydropericardium accompanied with thorax dropsy as initial presentation.
(7) Accompanying the hepatic encephalopathy were hematemesis, abdominal dropsy, and hyperammonemia, conditions observed in hepatic coma patients.
(8) A rare complication of calculous cholecystitis (calculous that had migrated from the gallbladder and held in a circumscribed peritoneal sac with no fistula between this and the gallbladder) was observed in a woman who had been suffering from dropsy of the gallbladder with calculi for some 13 years.
(9) The game against Hungary was Dropsy's debut and he would go on to win another 16 caps.
(10) Eight cases of severe dropsy of the fetal sacs have been observed in mares.
(11) On the basis of physicochemical and serological tests and electron microscopy, the virus was identified as spring viraemia carp virus and assumed to have a primary role in the acute form of infectious dropsy known so far as a bacterial disease.
(12) While dropsy referred to symptoms easily perceived by the patient as well as the physician, Bright's disease focused mainly on microscopic pathology invisible to the patient.
(13) In hydrocephalus of non-tumorous origin ventriculoscopy makes its possible, as a rule, to determine the origin of the dropsy and its character.
(14) He conceded the winning goal against Argentina and was replaced for France's final group game by Dominique Dropsy.
(15) Thirty-one cases of epidemic dropsy with raised intraocular pressure were studied.
(16) This year we are celebrating the bicentenary of the publication, by William Withering, of An Account of the Foxglove and Some of its Medicinal Uses with Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases (1).
(17) During two outbreaks of epidemic dropsy, detailed neurological and ocular examinations and electrophysiological studies of peripheral nerves and muscles (motor nerve conduction velocities, sensory nerve latencies and electromyography) and eye (electroretinogram and visually evoked cortical responses) were therefore undertaken.
(18) From carps showing the symptoms of acute infectious dropsy, a virus was isolated for the first time in Hungary.
(19) The data showed that pericardial metastasis is often misdiagnosed if hydropericardium with thorax dropsy appeared initially.
(20) The alkaloid sanguinarine reported to be responsible for several outbreaks of epidemic dropsy in the tropics was examined for its hepatotoxic potential in rats.
Mucocele
Definition:
(n.) An enlargement or protrusion of the mucous membrane of the lachrymal passages, or dropsy of the lachrymal sac, dependent upon catarrhal inflammation of the latter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two patients with sphenoethmoid mucoceles developed visual field defects consistent with optic chiasm dysfunction.
(2) The authors describe a rare case of mucocele of maxillary sinus and, on the basis of the histological and namely of the ultrastructural findings, they maintain that the mucocele has in all probability a multiple pathogenesis being dependent not only on the inflammatory processes, but also on other local predisposing factors and namely the active participation of the mucosa in the formation of the cavity of mucocele.
(3) In summary, we report a case of secondary infertility attributed to pseudomyxoma peritonei caused by ruptured appendiceal mucocele.
(4) We reviewed 70 patients with lower lip mucoceles for patient characteristics, clinical features, and histopathologic findings.
(5) One type of antral mucocele, commonly seen in Japan, is referred to as a postoperative maxillary cyst and is identical to the surgical ciliated cyst of the maxilla originally reported by Gregory and Shafer.
(6) Myxoglobulosis is a rare morphologic variant of appendiceal mucocele characterized by intraluminal mucinous globules of the appendix.
(7) To elucidate the role of inflammation, mucocele fragments and fibroblasts cultured from them were examined in vitro to assess prostaglandin E2 synthesis.
(8) A craniotomy followed by a bilateral external ethmoidectomy was necessary for complete extirpation of the infected mucoceles.
(9) To our knowledge, this study describes the first case of multiple intracranial mucoceles secondary to E rostratum.
(10) Epithelial-lined sialocysts of the minor oral salivary glands are rare when compared with the common mucous retention phenomenon or mucocele.
(11) No correlation between a particular pathological condition of the gallbladder (acute cholecystitis, mucocele, chronic cholecystitis, cholesterolosis) and staining pattern or intensity of staining was found for any of the apolipoproteins, although both apolipoproteins AI and AII stained more intensely than apolipoprotein B in each group.
(12) Bone was thicker on the mucocele side than on the control side.
(13) Four patients with laryngeal mucocele (fluid-filled laryngocele) are described.
(14) Seven examples of mucocele of the sphenoid sinus have been described.
(15) A 47-year-old right-handed woman suffered an accidental dural perforation in the course of intranasal drainage of a right-sided sphenoid mucocele.
(16) Floating cells also gave positive CEA staining, whereas epithelial fragments and connective tissue in the mucocele wall were lacking in CEA.
(17) Mucoceles form if the nasofrontal duct is obstructed, if mucosa is inadequately removed during obliteration and, in some instances, where islands of mucosa are isolated by mucosal laceration.
(18) The authors document two cases of mucocele-like tumors to illustrate the difficulty in separating these lesions from colloid carcinoma on the basis of fine-needle aspiration biopsy.
(19) The treatment of mucoceles by the Lynch-Howarth frontoethmoidectomy has been criticized because of a high rate of recurrence and postoperative complications.
(20) We have presented a rare case of bilateral posterior sphenoethmoidal sinus mucoceles with bilateral compressive optic neuropathy.