(n.) Inflammation of the lining membrane of the stomach and the intestines.
Example Sentences:
(1) 310 patients with acute infantile gastroenteritis were divided into 2 groups.
(2) Gastroenteritis contributed for half (51.5%) of the mortality.
(3) Total white cell counts were reviewed in paediatric in-patients with viral gastroenteritis, bacterial gastroenteritis, delayed recovery following acute gastroenteritis, viral lower respiratory tract infections and cow's milk protein intolerance.
(4) Both patients had been in close contact with children with rotavirus gastroenteritis.
(5) We examined the uptake of bovine serum albumin (BSA) from the intestine into the circulation of 3-week-old piglets infected with transmissible gastroenteritis virus.
(6) The form of the illness in young children was acute gastroenteritis and in older children "appendicular syndrome".
(7) TE-031 was ineffective in 1 case of otitis media, but efficacious in 10 of 10 (100%) cases of upper respiratory infection, 15 of 18 (83.3%) cases of bronchitis and pneumonia, 5 of 6 (83.3%) cases of pertussis, 13 of 13 (100%) cases of mycoplasmal pneumonia, 4 of 4 (100%) cases of Chlamydia psittaci pneumonia, 16 of 16 (100%) cases of gastroenteritis (including 15 cases of Campylobacter gastroenteritis), and 1 (100%) case of impetigo.
(8) A rapid, sensitive counterimmunoelectrophoresis assay was developed to detect adenovirus in stools of patients with gastroenteritis.
(9) HRV type 1 was detected in the last four successive epidemic years and represented nearly half of the HRV infections observed among gastroenteritis inpatients during the year 1977--1978.
(10) These ELISAs were used to search for evidence of HCV infection in the United States, where HCV gastroenteritis has rarely been reported.
(11) Antibody response to group A rotavirus (RV), investigated in paired sera from 72 infants and young children with acute gastroenteritis caused by an RV infection, was diagnosed on the basis of a fourfold or greater rise in group A common RV IgG antibody titer.
(12) It can be used as a simple screening procedure to help determine which of many possible anthelmintic control strategies should be selected for more detailed examination in the field, and it provides a theoretical framework within which ideas concerning the epidemiology of parasitic gastroenteritis can be assessed and refined.
(13) The most common cause of death were bronchopneumonia (25.2%) followed by gastroenteric and lung cancer (20%), cerebrovascular accident (15.8%), myocardial infarction (8%) and pulmonary embolism (7.4%).
(14) There have been three recent outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis in primary schools in Osaka prefecture caused by rotavirus: one in a school (TA) in April, 1974 and two in two other schools (TE and K) in May 1975.
(15) Enteroviruses and other small round virus-like particles were found in infants both with and without gastroenteritis.
(16) Respiratory complications including bronchopneumonia and laryngotracheobronchitis were the commonest causes of death followed by encephalitis and gastroenteritis.
(17) The organism is frequently isolated from blood but rarely causes gastroenteritis.
(18) A micro virus-neutralization reaction was designed and tested to detect antibodies to the virus of transmissive gastroenteritis.
(19) In 1983 an outbreak of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and hemorrhagic gastroenteritis occurred in our newborn nurseries.
(20) The patient showed other sign of the disease, such as pericarditis, gastroenteritis and hepatomegaly.
Intestine
Definition:
(a.) Internal; inward; -- opposed to external.
(a.) Internal with regard to a state or country; domestic; not foreign; -- applied usually to that which is evil; as, intestine disorders, calamities, etc.
(a.) Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective.
(a.) Shut up; inclosed.
(a.) That part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.
(a.) The bowels; entrails; viscera.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intestinal dilatation seemed in all cases a response to elevated CO2 only.
(2) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
(3) The measurement of the intestinal metabolism of the nitrogen moiety of glutamic acid has been investigated by oral ingestion of l-[15N]glutamic acid and sampling of arterialized blood.
(4) In the case presented, overdistension of a jejunostomy catheter balloon led to intestinal obstruction and pressure necrosis (of the small bowel), with subsequent abscess formation leading to death from septicemia.
(5) Intestinal glands are not observed until 8.5cm, and are shallow in depth even in the adult.
(6) Concentrations of the drugs in feces increased with increasing dosage, resulting in greater changes of the intestinal bacterial flora.
(7) Other intestinal cells immunostained with either GLP or somatostatin-34 antiserum.
(8) Two patients presented in addition to intestinal manifestations massive extraintestinal symptoms, both with septicemia and meningitis.
(9) Gastro-intestinal surgery is only indicated if haemorrhage persists after a period of observation.
(10) In vitro studies showed that BOF-A2 was rapidly degraded to EM-FU and CNDP in homogenates of the liver and small intestine of mice and rats, and in sera of mice, rats and human, and the conversion of EM-FU to 5-FU occurred only in the microsomal fraction of rat liver in the presence of NADPH.
(11) The intestinal cells are filled with concentric spherules, and the intestinal lumen is reduced.
(12) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
(13) PYY inhibited the reduction in net absorption of sodium chloride and water evoked by vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), but did not affect the VIP-evoked increase in net potassium secretion.
(14) We recently treated a patient in whom HPVG was caused by intestinal pseudo-obstruction.
(15) In goldfish intestine (perfused unstripped segments and mucosal strips) the serosal addition of ouabain (10(-4) M) resulted in a vanishment of the transepithelial potential difference and in a continuous increase in transepithelial resistance.
(16) The surface phenotypes of bovine intestinal leukocytes isolated from the intraepithelium (IEL), lamina propria (LPL) and Peyer's patches (PPL) of the small intestinal mucosa of normal adult cows were determined using monoclonal antibodies (mAb) specific to adult bovine peripheral blood leukocytes (PBL).
(17) After examining the cases reported in literature (Sacks, Barabas, Beighton Sykes), they point out that, contrary to what is generally believed, the syndrome is not rare and cases, sporadic or familial, of recurrent episodes of spontaneous rupture of the intestine and large vessels or peripheral arteries are frequent.
(18) haematobium and is a complication of bilharziasis of the bladder and intestine.
(19) Cloacal exstrophy, centered on the maldevelopment of the primitive streak mesoderm and cloacal membrane, results in bladder and intestinal exstrophy, omphalocele, gender confusion, and hindgut deformity.
(20) One thousand nineteen Wyoming ground squirrels (Spermophilus elegans elegans) from 4 populations in southern Wyoming were examined for intestinal parasites.