What's the difference between duodenum and gastroduodenal?
Duodenum
Definition:
(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.
Gastroduodenal
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to the stomach and duodenum; as, the gastroduodenal artery.
Example Sentences:
(1) A retrospective study was conducted into 136 patients who had received surgical treatment for perforated gastroduodenal ulcers, with the view to establishing postoperative lethality and morbidity (comparing simple suturing with definitive ulcer surgery).
(2) Three cases of gastroduodenal perforation and one case of ulceration and extreme thinning of the gastric wall occurred in preterm babies treated with dexamethasone for bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
(3) This may be due to changes in the gastroduodenal pressure gradient induced by evacuating the stomach.
(4) A technique of diversion of the gastroduodenal vein in a canine model is described to compare long-term metabolic effects of systemic versus portal pancreatic endocrine drainage.
(5) Gastroduodenal investigation must of course be comprised of pictures during collapse, semi-collapse and repletion of the entire duodenal outline; once out of every two times, one has to recourse to intravenous duodenography which has become a routine investigation.
(6) The detection of the organism at this site remote from the gastroduodenal environment suggests the organism may be transmitted by the orofaecal route.
(7) The initial level of PL-beta-ED-ir was significantly lowered in a group of 14 patients with gastroduodenal ulcer disease as compared with healthy volunteers (P less than 0.05).
(8) The study using the urease test on mucous biopsies from the antral gastric part and from the duodenum of patients with chronic opisthorchiasis with endoscopic evidence of antral gastritis and gastroduodenitis, and from noninvaded patients with gastritis and duodenitis, some of them with the gastric or duodenal ulcers showed that the test was positive.
(9) Both patients had primary adenocarcinoma of the large bowel but both were also found to have gastroduodenal problems severe enough to need surgical treatment.
(10) According to the observations, in humans there is a definite tendency toward decreased endogenous prostacyclin production in the gastroduodenal mucosa of smokers.
(11) This study indicates that the stimulation of DNA synthesis can be achieved by exogenous gastrin, CCK and bombesin acting through separate receptor but that only gastrin and CCK play the major role in the postprandial stimulation of the growth of gastroduodenal mucosa and pancreatic tissue.
(12) With selective embolization of terminal vessels, late complications of duodenal stenosis occurred in seven of 28 patients; when occlusion was at the level of the gastroduodenal artery (P = .131), this developed in only two of 29.
(13) The term gastroduodenal fistula is suggested to describe double pyloric canal.
(14) Antacids can reduce gastroduodenal acidity for long periods if taken in substantial quantities after food.
(15) The statistical analysis of our data supports the efficacy of SST in the treatment of uncontrollable upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to gastroduodenal ulcer.
(16) Recently we experienced 2 adult post-renal transplantation cases with gastroduodenal cytomegalic inclusion body.
(17) Duodenal bile taken by gastroduodenal intubation of patients with chronic calculous cholecystitis with intact gallbladder performance was investigated as was the bile taken in those with chronic acalculous cholecystitis or in those without clinical signs of cholecystitis and concurrent diseases.
(18) Reported clinical correlations between gastroduodenal ulcer and allergies point up the Arthus ulcer as a possible laboratory model for gastroduodenal ulcer.
(19) To examine this possibility, 62 tissue biopsies from 21 patients were obtained during esophagogastroduodenoscopy for gastroduodenal ulcer disease and from one operative specimen during the procedure for perforation of a gastric ulcer.
(20) While such metaplastic change has been regarded as a self-defence mechanism or adaptation of the duodenal mucosa against acid, a local decrease of normal endocrine cells, which allegedly function as acid receptors, may lead to alterations of gastroduodenal interaction.