(n.) An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The objective of this investigation was to determine the frequency of and predictors for inadequate barium enemas in the frail elderly.
(2) The absorption of prednisolone from the metasulphobenzoate enema in three patients was less than from the 21-phosphate enema.
(3) Only 31 percent of the patients had colonoscopy or double-contrast barium enema x-ray beyond the neoplastic area before surgery.
(4) We conclude that routine use of Golytely is preferable to methods involving catharsis and standard tap water enemas for barium enema examination, on the grounds that it is equally effective, yet more convenient for patients and for the radiology department, and reduces total costs.
(5) To evaluate whether the addition of enemas to oral electrolyte lavage is helpful for colonoscopic preparation, we conducted a prospective, randomized, observer-blinded trial to compare oral lavage plus enemas with oral lavage alone.
(6) The study outcome of primary interest was the radiologist's report of the adequacy of examination as indicated in the written summary of the results of the barium enema procedure.
(7) In addition, MISO pretreatment followed by acetic acid enema resulted in significantly higher ornithine decarboxylase activities in the descending colon at 2 and 6 hr, compared with the vehicle plus acetic acid and MISO plus saline groups.
(8) In each patient the initial diagnostic studies--plain abdominal radiography and barium enema examination--revealed generalized small intestine distention and non-specific colonic abnormalities, respectively.
(9) After liberation of 5-ASA in the terminal ileum (only slow release oral preparations of 5-ASA) and colon (5-ASA suppositories and enemas), 5-ASA is only partly absorbed.
(10) The equivalency of results and the lower cost of the radiologic study indicate that the double-contrast barium enema is the technique of choice for the examination of asymptomatic patients or symptomatic individuals without known antecedent disease.
(11) Accuracy was 79% for rectal examination, 74% for double contrast barium enema and 72% for pelvic CT scan.
(12) The study can be easily combined with a barium enema examination.
(13) These results suggest that more emphasis on a two-day colon preparation, before the initial barium contrast enema, would substantially reduce the frequency of false-positive interpretations.
(14) Half of the synchronous cancers and almost half of the synchronous polyps were missed at double-contrast barium enema.
(15) Because many distal carcinomas were first detected with nonradiologic techniques, an unusually high percentage of carcinomas in the cecum and ascending colon were found initially with barium enema studies.
(16) The medical and radiologic records of 171 elderly institutionalized patients (mean age = 85.3 years), who underwent barium enema examinations, were retrospectively reviewed.
(17) Initial barium enema inaccuracies were documented with postendoscopic air-contrast radiography in colons that were endoscopically proved to be mechanically clean following a two-day colon preparation.
(18) Often, the severity of symptoms led to persistent evaluation with noninvasive tests such as gallium scan, intravenous pyelogram, or barium enema.
(19) A barium enema examination revealed polyps throughout the entire colon.
(20) It provides patients with an alternative therapy to the current oral and enema preparations.
Pessary
Definition:
(n.) An instrument or device to be introduced into and worn in the vagina, to support the uterus, or remedy a malposition.
(n.) A medicinal substance in the form of a bolus or mass, designed for introduction into the vagina; a vaginal suppository.
Example Sentences:
(1) The substance benzalconium chloride (BZC) was contained in vaginal sponges (n = 46), pessaries (n = 4) and cream (n = 6) at a dose rate of 1.18%.
(2) Gemeprost 1 mg vaginal pessaries were inserted at 3 hr intervals for a maximum of 5 doses.
(3) It is concluded that PGE2 vaginal tablets--a chemically stable alternative to pharmacy prepared pessaries--appear to be effective as regards cervical ripening as well as for labor induction.
(4) Each ewe was inseminated in the uterus with fresh semen 24 h after pessary withdrawal.
(5) All 50 women who received gemeprost vaginal pessaries every 3 hours aborted within 48 hours, while 10% who received them every 6 hours did not abort.
(6) Of the potentially useful compounds, only derivatives of prostaglandins E and F administered by vaginal pessary have so far been shown to be effective.
(7) A single course of 4 x 1 mg gemeprost pessaries was administered every six hours.
(8) This double-blind study is concerned with the efficacy and safety of a new prostaglandin E1-analogue (16,16'-dimethyl-trans-delta 2PGE1-methylester) (Gemeprost) (ONO-802), which was administered as a single 1 mg vaginal pessary three hours prior to legal abortion.
(9) Both groups showed a rise in plasma PGE2 levels in keeping with the release profiles of the pessaries.
(10) Moreover, women who received RU-486 required significantly fewer gemeprost pessaries (median of 3) than controls (median of 5); the former women also required significantly less analgesia.
(11) In a randomized, double-blind clinical trial from general practice, 500 mg metronidazole pessaries applied once daily for seven days were compared with placebo in the treatment of bacterial vaginosis.
(12) These results suggest that in many women the number of pessaries used to induce mid-trimester abortion could be reduced by lengthening the interval between insertion of pessaries within the first 24 h, without loss of clinical efficacy.
(13) A questionnaire study was carried out to investigate the needs of women undergoing a medical abortion induced by mifepristone in combination with either gemeprost pessaries or oral misoprostol.
(14) This correction is made either by putting a pessary, either by a surgical cure unless the risk should be too important for the patient.
(15) The mean (SD) induction-abortion interval (IAI) in the vaginal pessary group of 19.5 (8.4) h was significantly longer than the respective intervals of 14.4 (9.3) and 16.1 (6.8) h in the patients treated extra- or intra-amniotically (P less than 0.001).
(16) In order to define the patterns of TSH, T4, T3, rT3, GH and cortisol during the estrous cycle of sheep, pluriparous and primiparous ewes were synchronized with progestagen-impregnated pessaries (Veramix) at the start of the normal breeding season.
(17) In a prospective randomized trial of 106 patients who had spontaneously ruptured their membranes greater than or equal to 4 hours in the absence of labour, vaginal prostaglandin E2 pessaries and intravenous Syntocinon were compared.
(18) One hundred fourteen women received a placebo pessary and 101 received the hydrogel pessary, containing 10 mg of prostaglandin (PG) E2.
(19) Though isoconazole was formulated for single dose usage, econazole was formulated for a regimen of one pessary a night for three nights.
(20) After insertion of the pessary, 44 women received an oral analgesic drug and 9 an intramuscular opioid.