(1) Bacteriological studies on gallbladder bile from 39 patients suggested that infection within the gallbladder may be a factor in the causation of flatulent dyspepsia.
(2) In February last year the BBC was forced to apologise to the Mexican ambassador after a joke made by the three presenters that the nation's cars were like the people "lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat".
(3) 51% of patients with gallstone disease vs. 15% of the control group avoided flatulent and fatty food.
(4) Almost all adverse experiences, as reported by 56 to 76% of patients on acarbose vs 32 to 37% of patients on placebo, were related to the digestive system and included diarrhoea, flatulence, bloating and nausea.
(5) Of the 2,815 report forms (64%) returned, 656 adverse effects were reported for 390 treatment courses (14%); they included flatulence (260), diarrhea or cramping (100), nausea (93), headache (17), disorientation or dizziness (9), and diplopia (4).
(6) The common symptoms were altered bowel habit, abdominal pain, emotional disturbance, flatulence and distension.
(7) Good results included the absence of reflux symptoms, pleasant swallowing, the preservation of a normal capacity for belching and vomiting, minimal flatulence, and a comfortable incision.
(8) All patients complained of increased abdominal flatulence with high fiber diet, however, no significant increase in frequency of bowel movements was noted.
(9) A multivariate analysis indicated that preoperative flatulence together with long duration of attacks of pain are risk factors for postoperative dissatisfaction as judged by a linear analogue scale.
(10) The incidence of flatulent dyspepsia and its relationship to gallbladder function has been studied in 100 consecutive patients with gallstones undergoing cholecystectomy.
(11) The main symptoms of infection with Giardia intestinalis in 33 Sudanese adults were abdominal pain, flatulence and diarrhoea.
(12) In this clinical study, four groups, each consisting of 12 patients are established to determine how gastric emptying is influenced in cholelithiasis with accompanied flatulent dyspepsia and the relationship of symptoms and gastric emptying after cholecystectomy.
(13) Both controlled release metoclopramide and high and low dose domperidone significantly reduced symptoms of belching, flatulence, distension, heartburn, regurgitation, reflux, nausea and vomiting compared to baseline.
(14) You really can have it all.” A more practical innovation comes from British manufacturer Shreddies, which has developed flatulence-filtering underwear , allowing you to “fart with confidence”.
(15) Symptoms of epigastric discomfort, loose stools and flatulence occurred over the first year of infection and ameliorated thereafter.
(16) In all cases the excessive flatulence occurred independently of sugar dosage whereas the development of diarrhoea was dose-related.
(17) There was also more urgency, flatulence, abdominal pain and nausea.
(18) The BBC has upheld complaints against Top Gear over Richard Hammond's comments that Mexicans are "lazy, feckless [and] flatulent".
(19) In a double-blind crossover trial isomalt chocolate was associated in healthy consumers (n = 58) with increased motion frequency, wind and flatulence compared with sucrose chocolate.
(20) All preserved anal continence for solid and fluid feces, whereas three suffered from flatulence during a follow-up period from one to 46 months.
Nard
Definition:
(n.) An East Indian plant (Nardostachys Jatamansi) of the Valerian family, used from remote ages in Oriental perfumery.
(n.) An ointment prepared partly from this plant. See Spikenard.
(n.) A kind of grass (Nardus stricta) of little value, found in Europe and Asia.
Example Sentences:
(1) They sum up the various methods of prevention of venous stasis: Nard's method, associating bandages and deambulation, as well as various techniques of contention, hemodilution, compression with inflatable boots, electric stimulation or assisted mobilization.
(2) The signal perceived by the NARD appears to have been a valuable warning, rightly casting doubt on the safety of triazolam and the original dosage recommendations.
(3) In the course of 1979 the Netherlands Centre for Monitoring of Adverse Reactions to Drugs (NARD) received a remarkably large number of reports on patients with unusual and complex psychic disturbances, attributed to the use of the then recently marketed hypnotic triazolam.
(4) In consequence both cases were treated as outpatients by physical compression (Nard's method), without any anticoagulant medication : the results were striking and lasting.
(5) It is proposed that molecular oxygen controls the expression of nar via Fnr and that the nard mutation affects the Fnr binding site of the narGHI control region.
(6) The authors looked back at the original publications, that is to say to the publications of Chalier and of Nard, who described methods, which have been much referred to, that were quite exacting.
(7) The synergic effect of walking is definitively established; the treatment of deep-set phlebites by ambulatory compression is discovered by H. Fischer in Germany and then in France by L. Nard.
(8) The nard mutation, located upstream of the nar structural genes, was found to be cis dominant; it led to independence from the Fnr protein which, in the wild-type strain, exerts a strict positive control on the nar operon.