What's the difference between gastrotomy and stomach?

Gastrotomy


Definition:

  • (n.) A cutting into, or opening of, the abdomen or the stomach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Esophageal intubation with a Celestin prosthesis combined with Janeway gastrotomy is an excellent method for relieving the symptoms of advanced malignancy of the middle and lower thirds of the esophagus.
  • (2) Although bursting pressure of laser-fused gastrotomies was significantly lower than that of sutured controls on Postoperative Day 1, measurement on subsequent days showed comparable wound strength between the laser and suture groups.
  • (3) We recently treated a 19-year-old man in the ED and in the departments of surgery and medicine who required a gastrotomy to remove a large amount of elemental iron inaccessible to removal by emesis, lavage, or gastroscopy.
  • (4) This technique has been applied to study the effect of a laparotomy or gastrotomy on gastric emptying in the rat.
  • (5) All patients but three underwent enterotomy, gastrotomy, or enterotomy combined with gastrotomy for bezoar removal.
  • (6) In the stomach, the FB may pass through the intestinal tract or stop at the pylorus or duodenum; if after 5-6 days there is no evidence of passage in the duodenum, it should be recovered by gastrotomy or endoscopy.
  • (7) The obstructing ring was excised through a gastrotomy approached by a left-sided thoracotomy.
  • (8) In one emergency case a gastrotomy was necessary for decompression, and in another gastrectomy was necessary because of gastric gangrene.
  • (9) Two patients (0.9%) required reoperation due to bleeding from the myotomy site in one and leakage from the gastrotomy site in the other.
  • (10) On exploratory gastrotomy, the mass was found to consist of hypertrophic rugae resembling cerebral gyri and sulci.
  • (11) The neonate underwent exploratory laparotomy, excision of the persistent omphalomesenteric duct, gastrotomy, and colostomy.
  • (12) At laparotomy a large hair ball extending from the Stomach into the duodenum and proximal jejunum was removed through a vertical gastrotomy incision.
  • (13) Altogether, 186 male Wistar rats were randomised to undergo either a simple gastrojejunostomy or a gastrotomy and sacrificed at eight weekly intervals for 56 weeks.
  • (14) The controversial issue of enhanced pancreatic carcinogenesis following partial gastrectomy has been explored in male Wistar rats (n = 40) weighing 250-300 g. Animals were randomised to receive either 60% distal gastrectomy with Roux-en-Y reconstruction or gastrotomy and resuture (control).
  • (15) After a gastrotomy, the gastric mucosa was exposed and rugal folds were pulled over the balloon to create a cylinder.
  • (16) Tumor enucleation was performed in 1 patients following laparotomy and gastrotomy.
  • (17) Gastrotomy was successful in allowing the removal of a large amount of the retained corrosive material.
  • (18) As neither endoscopic alcohol injection nor operative hemostasis by over sewing under gastrotomy were unsuccessful, total gastrectomy was performed.
  • (19) The authors believe that gastrotomy and surgical removal of tablets is the treatment of choice in massive iron ingestion with development of an "iron bezoar" unresponsive to gastric lavage.
  • (20) Forty male adolescent Sprague-Dawley rats were anesthetized and standardized ventral midline laparotomies and uniform-length gastrotomies and typhlotomies were performed.

Stomach


Definition:

  • (n.) An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.
  • (n.) The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef.
  • (n.) Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.
  • (n.) Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness.
  • (n.) Pride; haughtiness; arrogance.
  • (v. t.) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
  • (v. t.) To bear without repugnance; to brook.
  • (v. i.) To be angry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the same time the duodenum can be isolated from the stomach and maintained under constant stimulus by a continual infusion at regulated pressure, volume and temperature into the distal cannula.
  • (2) This suggests that a physiological mechanism exists which can increase the barrier pressure to gastrooesophageal reflux during periods of active secretion of the stomach, as occurs in digestion.
  • (3) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
  • (4) The following possible explanations were discussed: a) the tested psychotropic drugs block prostaglandin receptors in the stomach; b) the test substances react with prostaglandin in the nutritive solution; c) the substances stimulate metabolic processes in the stomach wall that break down prostaglandin.
  • (5) It was considered worthwhile to report this case due to the problems which arose concerning the choice of a thoracic rather than abdominal route owing to the impossibility of associating cardiomyotomy with anti-reflux plastica surgery because of the reduced dimensions of the stomach.
  • (6) Gastric reservoir reduction, wrapping the stomach with an inert fabric, is one such procedure.
  • (7) Sialosyl-Tn antigen expression also was observed in intestinal metaplasia of the stomach and in transitional mucosa adjacent to the colorectal carcinoma, which are considered to be cancer-related lesions.
  • (8) The carcinoma and lymphoma of the stomach were both small, and the depth of invasion was localized to the mucosa and submucosa, respectively.
  • (9) Mean run time and total ST time were faster with CE (by 1.4 and 1.2 min) although not significantly different (P less than 0.06 and P less than 0.10) from P. Subjects reported no significant difference in nausea, fullness, or stomach upset with CE compared to P. General physiological responses were similar for each drink during 2 h of multi-modal exercise in the heat; however, blood glucose, carbohydrate utilization, and exercise intensity at the end of a ST may be increased with CE fluid replacement.
  • (10) G-17-I infusion, the stomach was continuously infused with isotonic saline.
  • (11) The CL was also longer in the duodenum, whereas the CD was shortened, indicating a reduction of the wave movements from the stomach antrum to the duodenum in the ranitidine periods.
  • (12) A great deal of information about the spiral bacteria of the stomach has accumulated in the past 5 years.
  • (13) A case is presented with radiographically demonstrated angioedema in the stomach and small bowel accompanied by allergic rhinitis, which was apparently an allergic response to the barium sulfate suspension.
  • (14) Therefore, we tested the ability of ultrasound imaging to identify noninvasively the stomach contents of laboring and nonlaboring pregnant volunteers.
  • (15) Of the strains tested, only the germ-free ND 1 mouse appeared to be susceptible to infection, and this was confined to the stomach mucosa; lesions contained large numbers of hyphal and mycelial forms with blastospores.
  • (16) I am absolutely sick to the stomach that this iconic Australian news agency would attack the navy in the way that it has,” he said.
  • (17) Pathogenic Mycobacterium ulcerans were recovered from the stool of anole lizards up to 11 days after inoculation by stomach tube.
  • (18) In adenocarcinoma of the distal esophagus and stomach, EUS prediction of stages T1 to T3 correlated well with the actual rate of R0 resection.
  • (19) These results suggest that formaldehyde has tumor-promoting activity in carcinogenesis in the glandular stomach.
  • (20) One hundred and two rats were subjected to one of following three surgical procedures: Antiperistaltic duodenogastric reflux (ADGR) was made for duodenal juice to reflux through the pylorus into the stomach.

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