(n.) A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.
Example Sentences:
(1) After an interim of no treatment for swine dysentery, sodium arsanilate was fed at a level of 220 parts per million for 21 days.
(2) Once a liver abscess as a sequel to amebic dysentery was diagnosed and once a megaloplastic anemia with symptoms of a funicular myelopathy following a vitamin B12 deficiency syndrome.
(3) Patients with reactive arthritis, sacroiliitis, spondylitis or Reiter's syndrome following intestinal infection from Yersinia, Salmonella, Shigella or Campylobacter organisms have been reported from endemic areas and after epidemic dysenteries.
(4) The role of the penetrating capacity of shigellae in the development of the pathological process in dysentery is discussed.
(5) From 1985 to 1988, fecal samples of 950 hospitalized children suffering from diarrhea or dysentery were screened for Shigella species using standard methods.
(6) The target lesions included 1) pyoderma caused by Staphylococcus aureus, 2) cryptococcal infection, 3) dermal sporotrichosis, 4) colon ulcer caused by amebic dysentery, 5) cutaneous leishmaniasis, and 6) chronic liver abscess containing ova of Ascaris lumbricoides.
(7) A 39 year-old Japanese homosexual male was diagnosed as amebic dysentery complicated with liver abscess on admission.
(8) Among the causative agents of Flexner's dysentery, S. flexneri 2a, 6 and 1b (in different combinations) play the leading role.
(9) Shigella flexneri, a Gram-negative bacillus belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae, causes bacillary dysentery in humans by invading colonic epithelial cells.
(10) For this reason, the epidemiological surveillance on Grigor'ev-Shiga dysentery should be drastically strengthened.
(11) The authors studied the immunoglobulin and specific antibodies content of various classes in the serum, coprofiltrates and the saliva of 68 patients suffering from Sonne dysentery and in 48 healthy adult persons.
(12) Escherichia coli strains that cause dysentery-like disease, parenteral infection, and infantile diarrhea form specific groups based on mobility of O and K antigens in immunoelectrophoresis.
(13) This paper explores the epidemiologic importance of dysentery with use of several community studies that demonstrate its prevalence and incidence as well as its association with pathogens, nutritional status, persistent diarrhea, and death.
(14) was always above 25 per cent from patients with dysentery and greater than 7 per cent from those with watery diarrhoea during the post-epidemic years.
(15) The use of a faecal preservative and several staining methods, together with formalin ether concentration, were evaluated for the improved diagnosis of intestinal amoebiasis and giardiasis in 1285 patients with diarrhoea or dysentery and from asymptomatic controls.
(16) The clinical effects of Nifuroxasid (N), Trimetoprim sulphametoxasol (TS) and Bactisubtil (B) on bacillar dysentery and alimentary toxicoinfections in the patients treated at the Clinic from January 1984 to the end of December 1989 have been analysed.
(17) The role of serum antitoxic antibody in protection against the dysentery caused by Shigella dysenteriae type 1 (Shiga's bacillus) was studied in monkeys fed 10(10) virulent organisms after parenteral immunization with a formalin-inactivated Shiga toxoid preparation standardized in mice.
(18) A determination was made of the immunoglobulin G, M and A concentration in the blood serum of women suffering from dysentery and other acute intestinal diseases, those who sustained the disease and healthy persons (259 in all).
(19) MSS are decreased in lacrimal fluids of patients with dry-eye conditions, while they are periodically increased in filtered stools of patients with acute Shigella dysentery and acute cholera.
(20) A description is given of the simultaneous participation of the following nosologic units: colibacteriosis, responsible for 13 to 14 per cent of the total mortality rate in newborn pigs; bronchopneumonia--causing 6 to 39 per cent losses in the other age groups; and dysentery with salmonellosis--inflicting 5 to 9 per cent losses.
Intestine
Definition:
(a.) Internal; inward; -- opposed to external.
(a.) Internal with regard to a state or country; domestic; not foreign; -- applied usually to that which is evil; as, intestine disorders, calamities, etc.
(a.) Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective.
(a.) Shut up; inclosed.
(a.) That part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.
(a.) The bowels; entrails; viscera.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intestinal dilatation seemed in all cases a response to elevated CO2 only.
(2) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
(3) The measurement of the intestinal metabolism of the nitrogen moiety of glutamic acid has been investigated by oral ingestion of l-[15N]glutamic acid and sampling of arterialized blood.
(4) In the case presented, overdistension of a jejunostomy catheter balloon led to intestinal obstruction and pressure necrosis (of the small bowel), with subsequent abscess formation leading to death from septicemia.
(5) Intestinal glands are not observed until 8.5cm, and are shallow in depth even in the adult.
(6) Concentrations of the drugs in feces increased with increasing dosage, resulting in greater changes of the intestinal bacterial flora.
(7) Other intestinal cells immunostained with either GLP or somatostatin-34 antiserum.
(8) Two patients presented in addition to intestinal manifestations massive extraintestinal symptoms, both with septicemia and meningitis.
(9) Gastro-intestinal surgery is only indicated if haemorrhage persists after a period of observation.
(10) In vitro studies showed that BOF-A2 was rapidly degraded to EM-FU and CNDP in homogenates of the liver and small intestine of mice and rats, and in sera of mice, rats and human, and the conversion of EM-FU to 5-FU occurred only in the microsomal fraction of rat liver in the presence of NADPH.
(11) The intestinal cells are filled with concentric spherules, and the intestinal lumen is reduced.
(12) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
(13) PYY inhibited the reduction in net absorption of sodium chloride and water evoked by vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), but did not affect the VIP-evoked increase in net potassium secretion.
(14) We recently treated a patient in whom HPVG was caused by intestinal pseudo-obstruction.
(15) In goldfish intestine (perfused unstripped segments and mucosal strips) the serosal addition of ouabain (10(-4) M) resulted in a vanishment of the transepithelial potential difference and in a continuous increase in transepithelial resistance.
(16) The surface phenotypes of bovine intestinal leukocytes isolated from the intraepithelium (IEL), lamina propria (LPL) and Peyer's patches (PPL) of the small intestinal mucosa of normal adult cows were determined using monoclonal antibodies (mAb) specific to adult bovine peripheral blood leukocytes (PBL).
(17) After examining the cases reported in literature (Sacks, Barabas, Beighton Sykes), they point out that, contrary to what is generally believed, the syndrome is not rare and cases, sporadic or familial, of recurrent episodes of spontaneous rupture of the intestine and large vessels or peripheral arteries are frequent.
(18) haematobium and is a complication of bilharziasis of the bladder and intestine.
(19) Cloacal exstrophy, centered on the maldevelopment of the primitive streak mesoderm and cloacal membrane, results in bladder and intestinal exstrophy, omphalocele, gender confusion, and hindgut deformity.
(20) One thousand nineteen Wyoming ground squirrels (Spermophilus elegans elegans) from 4 populations in southern Wyoming were examined for intestinal parasites.