(n.) The state or quality of being feculent; muddiness; foulness.
(n.) That which is feculent; sediment; lees; dregs.
Example Sentences:
(1) On one microscopic examination of sputum, the presence of feculent material was suspected.
(2) Soon after admission the patient sustained a massive feculent vomit and died.
(3) BLS was suggested by abdominal pain, feculent vomiting, steatorrhea, and hypoalbuminemia.
(4) DPL may be useful in the unstable patient to be sure the abdomen is the site of bleeding before starting an emergency laparotomy and occasionally, in more stable patients with ongoing abdominal pain, to rule out an associated bowel injury with perforation (e.g., recovery of bilious or feculant material).
(5) The presence of feculent debris that interfered with the colonoscopic examination was similar in both groups: simethicone 5 of 14 or 35% and placebo 7 of 12 or 58%.
(6) A review of 46 of the 63 reported cases of gastric and duodenal fistulization indicated that patients with gastric fistulas commonly present with vomiting (39%), and with histories of feculent eructations or frank feculent vomiting (44%), but that patients with duodenal fistulas rarely present with vomiting (3.6%), and never have feculent vomiting or eructations.
(7) These complications include (a) pain, feculent vomiting, and diarrhea; (b) gastrointestinal hemorrhage; and (c) peritonitis.
(8) Later, the predominant symptoms are diarrhea, weight loss and feculent vomiting.
(9) The typical symptoms are pain, diarrhea, weight loss, foul eructation, and feculent vomiting.
(10) Rarely encountered, these lesions are characterized by diarrhea, weight loss, abdominal pain, anemia, and sometimes feculent vomiting.
(11) At the time of admission, the scrotum was partly necrotic with repulsive feculent pus discharge and there was crepitus on palpation of involved areas.
(12) Six of the ten paracenteses that documented this condition were traumatic (bloody or producing feculent material).
(13) The only pathognomonic clinical features were feculent vomiting, eructations, or odor.
(14) Eighty percent (four of five) of patients with feculent debris in the rectosigmoid colon had diverticulosis, and 50% (four of eight) patients with diverticulosis had feculent debris in the rectosigmoid.
(15) Routine sinography revealed fistulous communications to the colon in nine patients (47 percent), but only three (16 percent) had grossly feculent drainage.
(16) These data indicate that (a) the combination of simethicone plus Colyte administered the night before colonoscopy improves visibility by diminishing bubbles; (b) this dosage of simethicone is not effective in diminishing haziness when administered the night before colonoscopy; and (c) patients with diverticulosis are likely to have feculent debris in the rectosigmoid colon, and a precolonoscopy enema may be helpful when the diagnosis is known.
(17) The effectiveness of a night-prior administration of Colyte to clean the colon of feculent debris was also examined.
(18) Patients with benign duodenocolic fistulas usually complain of diarrhea, and occasionally nausea and feculent vomiting.
(19) Abdominal pain, diarrhea, weight loss, vomiting, foul eructation, feculent vomiting and melena are among the presenting symptoms of patients with a gastrocolic fistula.
Feculent
Definition:
(a.) Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid.
Example Sentences:
(1) On one microscopic examination of sputum, the presence of feculent material was suspected.
(2) Soon after admission the patient sustained a massive feculent vomit and died.
(3) BLS was suggested by abdominal pain, feculent vomiting, steatorrhea, and hypoalbuminemia.
(4) DPL may be useful in the unstable patient to be sure the abdomen is the site of bleeding before starting an emergency laparotomy and occasionally, in more stable patients with ongoing abdominal pain, to rule out an associated bowel injury with perforation (e.g., recovery of bilious or feculant material).
(5) The presence of feculent debris that interfered with the colonoscopic examination was similar in both groups: simethicone 5 of 14 or 35% and placebo 7 of 12 or 58%.
(6) A review of 46 of the 63 reported cases of gastric and duodenal fistulization indicated that patients with gastric fistulas commonly present with vomiting (39%), and with histories of feculent eructations or frank feculent vomiting (44%), but that patients with duodenal fistulas rarely present with vomiting (3.6%), and never have feculent vomiting or eructations.
(7) These complications include (a) pain, feculent vomiting, and diarrhea; (b) gastrointestinal hemorrhage; and (c) peritonitis.
(8) Later, the predominant symptoms are diarrhea, weight loss and feculent vomiting.
(9) The typical symptoms are pain, diarrhea, weight loss, foul eructation, and feculent vomiting.
(10) Rarely encountered, these lesions are characterized by diarrhea, weight loss, abdominal pain, anemia, and sometimes feculent vomiting.
(11) At the time of admission, the scrotum was partly necrotic with repulsive feculent pus discharge and there was crepitus on palpation of involved areas.
(12) Six of the ten paracenteses that documented this condition were traumatic (bloody or producing feculent material).
(13) The only pathognomonic clinical features were feculent vomiting, eructations, or odor.
(14) Eighty percent (four of five) of patients with feculent debris in the rectosigmoid colon had diverticulosis, and 50% (four of eight) patients with diverticulosis had feculent debris in the rectosigmoid.
(15) Routine sinography revealed fistulous communications to the colon in nine patients (47 percent), but only three (16 percent) had grossly feculent drainage.
(16) These data indicate that (a) the combination of simethicone plus Colyte administered the night before colonoscopy improves visibility by diminishing bubbles; (b) this dosage of simethicone is not effective in diminishing haziness when administered the night before colonoscopy; and (c) patients with diverticulosis are likely to have feculent debris in the rectosigmoid colon, and a precolonoscopy enema may be helpful when the diagnosis is known.
(17) The effectiveness of a night-prior administration of Colyte to clean the colon of feculent debris was also examined.
(18) Patients with benign duodenocolic fistulas usually complain of diarrhea, and occasionally nausea and feculent vomiting.
(19) Abdominal pain, diarrhea, weight loss, vomiting, foul eructation, feculent vomiting and melena are among the presenting symptoms of patients with a gastrocolic fistula.