What's the difference between ectasia and ectasis?
Ectasia
Definition:
(n.) A dilatation of a hollow organ or of a canal.
Example Sentences:
(1) All patients with coronary ectasia were males, except one female with FH.
(2) Quadrantectomy centered around the discharging duct, is the procedure of choice in this disease, at the interface between diagnostic and treatment, in fact, if benign tumors (papillomas) or non tumoral diseases (fibrocystic mastopathy and duct ectasia) predominate, invasive or in-situ malignant lesions represent 13 p. cent of these 46 discharges, justifying the significance of this clinical sign.
(3) At necroscopy these angiographic findings were histologically proven as necrosis of the arterial wall with destruction of the elastic lamina, causing local vascular ectasia.
(4) Venous ectasias and varices which can be encountered, associated with DVA constitute an acquired feature in relation to a venous outlet obstacle.
(5) Of these only five had "pure" or isolated ectasia, whilst 18 had ectatic disease combined with coronary artery stenoses.
(6) Of 249 patients with nipple discharge, breast nodularity and duct ectasia was the cause in 75 percent.
(7) Gastric antral vascular ectasia ('water melon stomach') is a poorly documented cause of occult upper gastrointestinal blood loss.
(8) The clinical presentation is variable: excluding annulo-aortic ectasia, the other features of dystrophic aortic regurgitation are less well known.
(9) Despite the clinical similarities, the ultrastructural aspects of these lesions are different, showing: (1) ectasia of arteriolar type, (2) budding of capillaries, and (3) ectasia of venular type.
(10) All the three conditions are associated with duct ectasia.
(11) A case of ectasia of the descending thoracic aorta in a patient with Takayasu's disease is presented.
(12) Strong and weak sulfate baths produce certain increase in amount and in area of the lymphoid noduli with the germinative center, in the deep cortex and a decrease in the relative area of the medullary substance, while iodobromine baths facilitate to an outgrowth of the medullary cords and to ectasia of sinus lumens.
(13) They may appear in the form of vascular ectasia or neoformations of vessels, the most characteristic aspect of which is the formation of vascular glomerules.
(14) Epicardial artery disease, as suggested by the marked coronary artery ectasia, may be linked to the slow dye progression and predispose to coronary artery thrombosis.
(15) Six patients with annuloaortic ectasia and one with type 1 aortic dissection underwent the operation.
(16) Aortic annulo-ectasia should be investigated in patients with aortic valve endocarditis and early surgery would be advised to prevent aortic dissection.
(17) Because the arterial ectasia decreased in size after the extracranial to intracranial bypass surgery, this operation might be useful for space-occupying lesions due to arterial ectasia.
(18) We conclude that the patient with annuloaortic ectasia must be observed for a long-term after operation.
(19) Hepatic lesions were observed in mice killed between 8 and 40 hr after dosing and included diffuse sinusoidal congestion with mild sinusoidal ectasia, leucostasis, multifocal cytoplasmic vacuolation and necrosis of individual hepatocytes.
(20) These experiments establish the role of hydrocortisone in the induction of aortic rupture in a mouse with genetic susceptibility and the induction of aneurysms and ectasia in normal mice.
Ectasis
Definition:
(n.) The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pleural lesions, bronchial ectasis and mediastinal and hilar lymph node changes could be diagnosed.
(2) The X-ray results have been classified according to the following points of view: milk duct ectasies, milk duct cysts, ectasies and cysts, intracanalicular proliferations and the so called "normal" duct system.
(3) Such character is enhanced when estrogens are used, disappearing ductal ectasis, becoming evident a granulation tissue of strange body in phagocytic activity and in contact with the pellet.
(4) These observations can be compared to multiple osteolyses and be grouped together under the name of "intraosseous capillary ectasies".
(5) The normal medical treatment for simple somnipathy is of no success in a prison and the prisoners abuse the normally used medicaments to get into a state of ectasy.
(6) The Authors, on the basis of 9 casual radiographic observations of thoracic aortic ectasy in subjects affected of neoplasms and previously treated with antitumoral drugs, hypothesize a possible correlation between the use of adriamycin and the appearance of the aortic lesion.
(7) A patient operated upon for acalculous cholecystitis was later found to have Caroli's disease, congenital ectasis of intrahepatic bile ducts.
(8) Besides malformation of the glandular duct like stenosis and ectasis, functional factors like the character of salivary secretion are suspected as being responsible for the disease.
(9) Histologic examination demonstrated typical cystic ectasies of all glandular ducts in the esophagus; they appeared on radiologic examination and are visible at endoscopy as little yellowish cystic lesions.
(10) Histologically, cryonecrosis showed capillary ectasis with hyperemia.
(11) Main finding is a heavy granulocytic infiltration of the subsynovial stratum, similar to that seen in non-specific purulent inflammation, accompanied by marked ectasis and hyperaemia of the synovial vessels.
(12) 1) What form does AAA take: an atheromatous, spindle-shaped and partially thrombotic ectasis.
(13) Menometrorrhagia and hypermenorrhoea are often present in patients who also suffer from a state of insufficiency of the utero-adnexal venous system interpretable as a clinical entity of system pathology and accompanied by pictures of acquired venous ectasis.
(14) In the lumen, stenosis, obstruction, ectasis, and deformation due to pressure were recognized, in addition to excessive secretion and pigmentation as morphologic abnormalities or abnormal findings at bifurcation.
(15) In contrast to other studies which included only patients with blunting and ectasis even cases without blunting of the fornices have a clinical symptomatology.
(16) Overt shrinkage of bronchial dimension was demonstrated in chronic obstructive bronchiolitis; in both diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB) and broncho-bronchiolitis obliterans (BBO), narrowing of the peripheral airways combined with ectasis of the proximal bronchi proved to be a common feature.
(17) Different methods suitable for management of these vascular ectasies are briefly reported.
(18) Report on 2 patients, with a mediastinal enlargement at the right tracheobronchial angle revealing an ectasis of the orifice of vena-azygos.
(19) They may be functional (Graham-Steel-murmurs, for instance with idiopathic pulmonary ectasis or pulmonary hypertension), but are more and more the symptom of postoperative pulmonary insufficiency.
(20) A seven-year-old boy, who complained of painless swelling mass over the right neck on exertion, was diagnosed as right internal jugular vein ectasis by the duplex Doppler ultrasound.