What's the difference between fluid and hydrothorax?
Fluid
Definition:
(a.) Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.
(n.) A fluid substance; a body whose particles move easily among themselves.
Example Sentences:
(1) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
(2) Renal micropuncture and microdissection techniques with ultramicro fluid analysis have been applied to evaluate single nephron function in the skate, Raja erinacea.
(3) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(4) Irrespective of the type of arthropathy, synovial fluid dialysable hydroxyproline levels correlate with urinary hydroxyproline excretion.
(5) Content of cyclic nucleoside monophosphates was decreased in all the eye tissues in experimental toxico-allergic uveitis as well as penetration of cAMP into the fluid of anterior chamber of the eye.
(6) An inflammatory process than occurs in the airways that is characterized by an influx of eosinophils and neutrophils into the airway epithelium and bronchial fluids.
(7) One of these antibodies, MCaE11, was used for immunohistochemical detection of MAC in tissue and for quantification of the fluid-phase TCC in ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid plasma.
(8) The concentrations of five normally occurring protease inhibitors in serum and synovial fluid were compared in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthrosis, and normal controls.
(9) The increase in red blood cell mass was associated with an elevation in erythropoietic stimulatory activity in serum, pleural fluid, and tumor-cyst fluid as determined by the exhypoxic polycythemic mouse assay.
(10) From the biochemical markers in follicular fluid, cyclic adenosine monophosphate has a distinct predictive value in regard to pregnancy in in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer cycles.
(11) Postpartum management is directed toward decreasing vasospasm and central nervous system irritability and maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance.
(12) Chromatography and immunoassays are the two principal techniques used in research and clinical laboratories for the measurement of drug concentrations in biological fluids.
(13) Those without sperm, or with cloudy fluid, will require vasoepididymostomy under general or epidural anesthesia, which takes 4-6 hr.
(14) Thirty-two strains of pectin-fermenting rumen bacteria were isolated from bovine rumen contents in a rumen fluid medium which contained pectin as the only added energy source.
(15) Malondialdehyde was undetectable in cerebrospinal fluid after subarachnoid placement of agarose alone, although it was present in similar amounts in all groups that received subarachnoid placement of OxyHb.
(16) No respiratory-distress syndrome of the newborn occurred when total amniotic-fluid cortisol was greater than 60 ng per milliliter (16 patients).
(17) The sodium level of the ascitic fluid determined in 5 cases was higher than that of serum.
(18) In the study group 43 (64%) children had a confirmed bacterial AOM and 24 (36%) showed no bacterial growth from middle ear fluid.
(19) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
(20) Sera from three of these patients gave a precipitin band in gel diffusion tests identical to that produced by a monospecific rabbit anti-E. granulosus antigen 5 serum, when tested against whole hydatid fluid.
Hydrothorax
Definition:
(n.) An accumulation of serous fluid in the cavity of the chest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Others, such as infection, hydrothorax, phlebitis, and thrombosis, may occur later.
(2) Pancreatic fistulas may be external or internal, where pancreatic ascites or hydrothorax can be the clinical manifestation.
(3) Additionally, pulmonary edema and hydrothorax were induced in a pig that died after receiving 4 daily intravenous injections of fumonisin B1, a toxic metabolite produced by Fusarium moniliforme.
(4) After drainage of the hydrothorax a modified peritoneal dialysis regimen was successful in sustaining patients for a few weeks until further therapy for end-stage renal disease could be pursued.
(5) Major complications were associated with 4 of the 47 procedures (8.5 per cent), and consisted of a respiratory arrest, 2 perirenal abscesses and a hydrothorax.
(6) Bilateral pulmonary hypoplasia associated with hydrothorax is an unexplained entity.
(7) All four children with large right hydrothoraxes were found to have an incarcerated peritoneal sac filled with fluid in the right side of the chest at surgery or autopsy.
(8) Primary fetal hydrothorax presents a wide spectrum of severity ranging from small, harmless effusions, to life-threatening thoracic compression.
(9) N-Methylthiobenzamide (NMTB) produces pulmonary edema, hydrothorax, and death in rodents.
(10) Although in the present study noninvasive management of isolated fetal hydrothorax seems to have been justified, a larger multicenter study is needed to compare survival with and without pleuroamniotic shunting.
(11) We report the findings in a patient who developed Horner's syndrome as the first manifestation of mediastinal migration of a central venous catheter that resulted in hydromediastinum and hydrothorax.
(12) Two cases of right hepatic hydrothorax occurring in the absence of clinical ascites are reported.
(13) The shunt can be accomplished with a mortality under 1% in uncomplicated cirrhosis without jaundice or hydrothorax.
(14) We admitted a 60 year old patient with severe right hydrothorax.
(15) N-Methylthiobenzamide (NMTB) is a pneumotoxin which causes pulmonary edema and hydrothorax in rodents.
(16) Perirenal edema and hemorrhage, ascites, hydrothorax, and hemorrhagic enteritis were frequently encountered pathologic changes.
(17) Nine (2.8%) required urgent treatment: (6 pneumothorax, 1 hydrothorax, and 2 hemothorax).
(18) Pleurodesis achieved with autologous blood is a very safe, simple and effective way of treating hydrothorax in PD patients.
(19) Pneumothorax, hydrothorax, hydromediastinum, and cardiac tamponade are uncommon, although not unusual, complications of central venous catheter placement.
(20) Hepatic hydrothorax is an infrequent complication of cirrhosis.