(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.
Fetid
Definition:
(a.) Having an offensive smell; stinking.
Example Sentences:
(1) Every time we have a negotiation, the bidding process (for the project) slows and postpones things.” Water quality has become a hot-button issue as the Olympics draw closer with little sign of progress in cleaning up the fetid bay, as well as the lagoon system in western Rio that hugs the sites of the Olympic park, the very heart of the games.
(2) Transtracheal aspiration is not deemed necessary if the patient is expectorating fetid sputum.
(3) He is now Rwanda's justice minister, who has had to contend with the daunting question of what to do with close to 150,000 accused genocidaire who a decade ago were packed into overcrowded, fetid prisons.
(4) Symptomatology perceived incorrectly as abnormal: a) In pregnancy: Frequent urination: 17 per cent, morning nausea in the 1st trimester: 9 per cent, emotional instability: 21 per cent, Braxton Hicks contractions: 41 per cent, and b) Postpartum period: Decreased quantity in lochia rubra: 9 per cent, non-fetid lochia alba: 43 per cent, calostrum: 20 per cent.
(5) In the fetid ecosystem that is our incubator of conservative columnists, he is the apex predator.
(6) Early diagnosis was rare, even after fetid otorrhea of long duration; occassionally they presented as acute mastoiditis.
(7) b) In puerperium: Increased quantity in lochia rubra: 17 per cent, fever: 22 per cent, fetid lochia: 28 per cent, and c) In breastfeeding: Breasts red and warm: 48 per cent, fever: 30 per cent, nipple fissures: 70 per cent.
(8) It was dramatic with high fever and multiple fetid stools in one patient, and mild, successfully treated within a few days, in the second.
(9) In this discussion, the case report of a fetid diabetic right foot infection is presented.
(10) Whatever people say about the US, it at least embraces the filth and fury of politics, and puts the whole malfunctioning and fetid business out there for all to see.
(11) And just as our great moments in cinema concern stammering monarchs, so the likes of Garrone choose to examine criminality, and now the fetid scourge of reality TV.
(12) Differential diagnosis of the omphalic stone includes the so called umbilical cholesteatoma, an accumulation of crumbling, fetid masses in the umbilicus, often times accompanied by seborrhea which may lead to abscess formation.
(13) Fetid vaginal discharge (60%) and premature rupture of the membranes (35%) were the main findings upon history taking.
(14) This provoked the appearance of a pyogenous process with a profuse, purulent and fetid secretion (Staphylococcus aureus) resistant to many antibiotics which was finally controlled with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.
(15) The twelve other bacteremic patients had fetid diarrhea a few hours after admission.
(16) City hall, on a hill overlooking the city, is a devastated but functioning headquarters packed full of relief goods, water-logged office files, broken glass partitions and fetid toilets where journalists, aid workers, civil servants and homeless locals meander the halls aimlessly.
(17) Pseudomonas aeruginosa was the dominant causative organism in pulmonary infections of the aged while in presenile ones the organism was mainly Pseudomonas fetid.
(18) The water no longer bubbles out of the ground but sits low and fetid, a milky pond with concrete walls contaminated by faeces.
(19) Fetid diarrhea and failure to gain weight were consistent clinical signs.
(20) Trucks still rumble down the potholed road through the town but the last workers have long gone home, walking past the furled awnings of the market stalls, over the single footbridge, along the battered pavements, to the tenement apartments, the squalid huts, the tin-roofed homes by the fetid pond.