(n.) A medicine that promotes the menstrual discharge.
Example Sentences:
(1) A comprehensive review of plants that possess contraceptive or interceptive, abortifacient, ecbolic, oxytocic, or emmenagogue properties is presented.
(2) Abortifacients included emmenagogues, purgatives, oxytocics, and herbal or botanical products.
(3) In order to provide complete information on the discoveries of the ancient Chinese people on the uses of i-mu-ts'ao, all the records up to the end of the sixteenth century are organized and translated under the following headings: (1) ecological and morphological observations; (2) preparations; (3) physical and therapeutical properties; (4) special prescriptions for internal and external uses-including pills for pregnant women, for mothers post partum, as an emmenagogue, and as a corrective agent, condensed liquid, powder, fresh juice, baby bath and washes, poultices, charred shoots, gargles, drops and cakes; (5) other economic uses-including cosmetics and food; and (6) etymology.
(4) Individuals of Spanish and Mexican descent in New Mexico have used a number of plants as emmenagogues and abortifacients.
(5) Spanish and Mexican descendents in New Mexico have used plants as emmenagogues and abortifacients to bring on their periods if pregnancy is suspected.
(6) In principle, it could also be used as a monthly emmenagogue, but clinical trials have been unsuccessful due to disruption of the following cycle's length.
Pelvic
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pelvis; as, pelvic cellulitis.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 49 cases undergoing systemic lymphadenectomy 32 were found to have glandular involvement, of which both aortic and pelvic nodes were positive in 17 cases (53.1%), aortic nodes positive but pelvic negative in six (18.8%), and pelvic nodes positive but aortic negative in nine (28.1%).
(2) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
(3) On the other hand, the majority of gynecologic patients with pelvic infections are young and healthy.
(4) The authors analyze the biomechanical effectiveness of pelvic osteotomy according to the Chiari method.
(5) 11 patients with a postoperative classification of stage D had additional external beam radiation to the pelvic and paraaortic lymph nodes with shielding of the implanted prostatic region.
(6) By using these methods, it was clearly indicated that these factors such as TDF of rectum, Z-coordinate of weighted geometric center (WGC-Z), the dose of whole pelvic irradiation, history of chemotherapy and Treponema pallidum hemoagglutination test (TPHA) were important for occurrence of rectal complication.
(7) Gains in gait pattern, ease of bracing, and reduced pelvic obliquity were noted.
(8) Earlier recognition of foul-smelling mucoid discharge on the IUD tail, or abnormal bleeding, or both, as a sign of early pelvic infection, followed by removal of the IUD and institution of appropriate antibiotic therapy, might prevent the more serious sequelae of pelvic inflammation.
(9) The patient experienced an uneventful recovery and at the 6-week follow-up, the pelvic organs were within the normal limit and all wounds had healed.
(10) All four active treatment groups also experienced significantly more relief of pelvic-abdominal pain compared with placebo: piroxicam 40 mg for two days followed by three days of 20 mg (p = 0.002), piroxicam 40 mg for one day followed by four days of 20 mg (p = 0.023), piroxicam 20 mg for five days (p = 0.012), and ibuprofen (p = 0.011).
(11) These findings confirm the association between IUD use and pelvic actinomycosis; a review of the literature reveals 395 such cases.
(12) In addition to the well established contra-indications to use, a past history of pelvic inflammatory disease or ectopic pregnancy, promiscuity, nulliparity and age less than 25 are now considered relative contraindications.
(13) Radiological examination provides more accurate indications for plastic surgery of the pelvic floor, influences the operative procedures and permits better evaluation of operative results.
(14) Despite use of surgical adjuvants, pelvic adhesions frequently develop following infertility surgery.
(15) Computed tomography gave excellent visualization of prostate morphology and pelvic anatomic relationships.
(16) Pelvic floor location and mobility did not differ between controls and constipated patients.
(17) The main cause of sterility was complete tubal occlusion in 65.6% of the cases due to a high incidence of pelvic inflammatory diseases in the investigated patients.
(18) Sixteen pregnant patients with pelvic masses detected with ultrasound (US) were studied with magnetic resonance (MR) imaging at 0.35 T. Two patients were in their first trimester, eight in the second, and six in the last.
(19) We reported here controlling recurrent cervical cancer for about one and a half years in one case, and panhysterectomized radioresistant pelvic cancer for at least 3 mo in two cases with this type of cancer chemotherapy.
(20) Naproxen sodium compared favourably with the placebo with respect to pelvic pain and overall discomfort.