(n.) A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the present study we examined cholecystokinin release and gallbladder contraction after oral administration of a commercial fatty meal (Sorbitract; Dagra, Diemen, The Netherlands) using ultrasonography in eight normal subjects and eight gallstone patients before and after 1 and 4 weeks of treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid (10 mg kg-1.day-1).
(2) Best results were achieved in patients with single gallstones.
(3) Cholecystectomy is advocated in symptomatic patients with this condition, even when gallstones are not present.
(4) In addition the development of any gallstones was determined by serial ultrasonography.
(5) In a few patients, evidence of obstructive gallstone disease will develop during bile acid therapy and surgery will be required.
(6) Two of the patients had inflammatory bowel disease, none had a history of alcoholism and only one had gallstones.
(7) All the cholecystectomies were performed for gallstones.
(8) The serum cholesterol did not show any consistent change in the normal subjects, but there was a fall in cholesterol at 20 weeks in patients with gallstones; patients with previous myocardial infarction had a rise in cholesterol which returned to normal at 20 weeks.
(9) The patients with gallstone pancreatitis experienced a relief of symptoms and a decrease in the levels of serum amylase and bilirubin prior to rectal passage of the stones.
(10) Of 39 patients with gallstones, 30 were correctly diagnosed by ultrasound.
(11) The development of gallstones following this procedure, however, has become more problematic in that further opeation becomes a real necessity.
(12) Hepatic bile from gallstone patients contained significantly more cholesterol than did gallbladder bile from the same patients.
(13) Twelve patients with biliary colic had no evidence of gallstones but underwent cholecystokinin-augmented hepatobiliary scintigraphy that revealed gallbladder ejection fractions of less than 35%.
(14) The usefulness of micronutrient antioxidant therapy for recurrent (non-gallstone) pancreatitis has recently been endorsed by a 20-week double-blind double-dummy cross-over trial in 20 patients.
(15) We studied the prevalence of gallstones in patients with upper abdominal pain, heaviness, or discomfort by ultrasound examination of the gallbladder.
(16) Thus, decreased EF does not predict the histologic features of chronic cholecystitis without gallstones.
(17) This difference persisted stratifying women with gallstones and those in the control group for age.
(18) The object of this investigation was to determine gallstone susceptibility to laser lithotripsy and to discover whether this susceptibility is related to the computed tomography (CT) appearance of gallstones.
(19) The indications were initially restrictive but now embrace the quasi-totality of gallstones, complicated or not, and in particular when the patient's general condition is fragile.
(20) The bile ducts were visualised using endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), percutaneous or intravenous cholangiography in 38 patients with non-gallstone chronic pancreatitis.
Stone
Definition:
(n.) Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.
(n.) A precious stone; a gem.
(n.) Something made of stone. Specifically: -
(n.) The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
(n.) A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
(n.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
(n.) One of the testes; a testicle.
(n.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
(n.) A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
(n.) Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
(n.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone.
(n.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
(n.) To make like stone; to harden.
(n.) To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
(n.) To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
(n.) To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among its signatories were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
(2) Follow-up studies using radiological methods show worse results (recurrent stones in II: 21.2%, in I: 5.8%, stenosis of EST in II: 6.1%, in I: 3.1%): Late results of EST because of papillary stenosis are still worse compared to those of choledocholithiasis.
(3) Other serious complications were reservoir perforation during catheterisation in 3 and development of stones in the reservoir in 2 patients.
(4) In conclusion, 1) etiology of urinary tract stone in all recurrent stone formers and in all patients with multiple stones must be pursued, and 2) all stones either removed or passed must be subjected to infrared spectrometry.
(5) Predisposition to pancreatitis relates to duct size rather than stone size per se.
(6) Three of these patients, who had a solitary stone could successfully be treated by ESWL as monotherapy.
(7) In cholesterol stones and cholesterolosis specimens, relatively strong muscle strips had similar responses to 10(-6) M cholecystokinin-8 in normal calcium (2.5 mM) and in the absence of extracellular calcium.
(8) No significant complications were related to ESWL and 90% of those followed up after successful ESWL proved stone-free at 6 weeks.
(9) The addition of alcohol to the drinking-water resulted in the formation of stones rich in pigment.
(10) One biliary stone showed cholesterol with spherical bodies of calcium carbonate and pigment.
(11) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
(12) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(13) The minimal advantage in rapidity of stone dissolution offered by tham E over tham is more than offset by the considerably increased potential for toxic side effects.
(14) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
(15) It is no longer necessary for the kidney to be free of stones at the end of the operation.
(16) So let's be clear: children taking this drug, which is administered orally, do not get stoned.
(17) Patients with unilateral renal stone(s) with at least 1 diameter between 7 and 25 mm.
(18) Whether they affect ureteral motility in vivo or whether they can counteract ureteral spasm associated with ureteral stones have not been established.
(19) Recurrent stones are usually "silent," and we do not usually treat asymptomatic stones.
(20) Forty impressions were poured with the disinfectant dental stone and a similar number were poured with a comparable, nondisinfectant stone.