(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.
Suppository
Definition:
(n.) A pill or bolus for introduction into the rectum; esp., a cylinder or cone of medicated cacao butter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Diclofenac sodium suppositories 150-200 mg day-1 were compared with placebo in a double-blind study during the first 3 days after uvulopalatopharyngoplasty in 40 patients with habitual snoring or obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome.
(2) The in vitro and in vivo results show that the release of indomethacin from fatty-base suppositories stored at a high temperature is less than the release from those stored at a low temperature.
(3) 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.
(4) Rectal suppository is a well-known form of medication and its use is increasing.
(5) The administration of PGE2 vaginal suppositories offers an effective and safe technique for the induction of labor in patients with IUFD.
(6) The absorption times of the two drugs from suppositories with cocoa butter and Witepsol H 15 were relatively short.
(7) In vitro release of benzocaine from some commercially available suppositories was compared with experimental preparations.
(8) The adsorption in humans of nitrofurantoin from seven suppository bases was studied using urinary excretion measurements.
(9) The results show that both hydrocortisone (H) and prednisolone-21-hexanoate (P) are rapidly (tmax = 2-3 h) and significantly (H: 60-78%, P: 47-58%) absorbed from suppositories and thus can also cause systemic effects.
(10) Three cases of adenocarcinoma of the lower esophagus and cardia which is considered to be difficult to control by radiotherapy alone, were given radical irradiation combined with FT-207 suppository.
(11) In volunteers the activity of various doses of a nasal spray and of a suppository of salmon calcitonin was compared to a placebo and to the parenteral route of administration.
(12) When vomiting occurs early in the attack, treatment is best given by suppository, inhalation or intramuscular injection.
(13) Primary eye irritation of MCG suppository of CMZ was studied in rabbits.
(14) Treatment consisted of daily intravaginal application of one of the following regimens: 80-mg terconazole suppositories for 3 days, miconazole nitrate suppositories for 7 days or placebo suppositories for 7 days.
(15) Further studies in pregnant women showed that PGE2 administered in special vaginal suppositories resulted in: 1) 1 case at the 23rd week of pregnancy, the expulsion of the dead fetus by inserting 2 suppositories (4 mg PGE2 each) with the induction delivery time of 2 hours 20 minutes, and 2) one case in which the expulsion occurred after 1 suppository with an induction delivery time of 4 hours 30 minutes.
(16) We were enlightened by this therapeutic experience, so we attempted combination therapy using pepleomycin suppositories to supplement intra-cavitary irradiation, for the 11 selected patients who were suffering from uterine fluor.
(17) Oral administration gave higher values for mean residence time (MRT) and absolute bioavailability (F) compared to suppository dosage forms.
(18) 1 group (non-diaphragm) had a 20 mg. suppository inserted every 4 hours high in the vaginal fornix.
(19) Patients were divided into three treatment groups: one group received the drug intravenously, another as suppositories and the third one by both routes.
(20) The women were all 9 weeks pregnant, and received 600 mg RU-38486 orally at 10.30 hr, followed 48 hours later by a vaginal suppository containing 1 mg 16,16- dimethyl-trans-2-PGE1 (Gemeprost, May and Baker).