What's the difference between ileocolic and ileum?
Ileocolic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to the ileum and colon; as, the ileocolic, or ileocaecal, valve, a valve where the ileum opens into the large intestine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Crohn's disease activity index (CDAI) was significantly higher in patients with ileocolic or colon involvement than in those with small intestine involvement only.
(2) Useful differential morphological criteria can be: star-like or transverse ring-shaped profile of isolated ulcerations, tubular ileocolic junction with retracted cecum and open valve, and uniformity of lesion in the comprehensive picture of the clinical case.
(3) The incidence of toxic megacolon was significantly greater in ulcerative colitis than in Crohn's disease involving the colon (CC and IC) and in UC than in ileocolitis.
(4) Loperamide (R 18 553) was compared with placebo in a double-blind crossover study of 21 patients with chronic diarrhoea caused by ileocolic disease or resection.
(5) The long-term effects of ileocolic anastomosis in children are not known.
(6) Because the drug poses a theoretical risk for renal tubular damage, 26 patients, 8-18 years of age, with Crohn's ileocolitis were studied.
(7) Although histopathology was not obtained in all patients, there appeared to be sparing of the ascending colon in a small percentage (9 percent) of patients with ileocolitis.
(8) Our findings suggest that preoperative parenteral nutrition is unnecessary in the majority of patients with predominantly ileal Crohn's disease specifically undergoing right-sided ileocolectomy and primary ileocolic anastomosis.
(9) We report the case of a 23-year old woman suffering from Crohn's ileocolitis for 14 years who died of a prolonged shock followed by hyperglycaemia.
(10) 7) The arterial supply of the large intestine was as follows: the caecum was supplied only by the ileocolic artery.
(11) Mixed adrenergic and purinergic transmission was found in the largest ramus caecalis of the ileocolic artery.
(12) Even in cases of nonspecific ileocolitis, the diagnosis of Behçet's colitis could be made in a significant number of cases as time goes by.
(13) Ileocolitis was the most (52%) and colitis the least (9%) common form of disease with diffuse small bowel or ileal disease each comprising nearly 20% of the study group.
(14) Of particular note, 9 of the 10 patients had colitis or ileocolitis, and carcinoma occurred in bypassed rectum in 2 patients.
(15) The increase of 15N concentration was also observed in the plasma-free amino acids (threonine, isoleucine, phenylalanine, lysine, histidine, arginine, aspartic acid, serine, alanine, cystine) of the blood from the colic branch of the ileocolic vein.
(16) The patient had undergone numerous surgical procedures for complications of severe ileocolitis before developing a rectourethroperineal fistula.
(17) Cigarette smoking was associated with ileocolitis (p = 0.028).
(18) To evaluate possible risk factors for recurrence after primary resection of ileocolic Crohn's disease, the clinical course of 48 consecutive patients operated on over a 27-year period were reviewed.
(19) Reports that gas reduction of ileocolic intussusception has a better success rate than traditional barium reduction prompted us to evaluate this technique and to compare the results with our previous experience with barium.
(20) Two cases of pseudotumoral eosinophilic ileocolitis are described.
Ileum
Definition:
(n.) The last, and usually the longest, division of the small intestine; the part between the jejunum and large intestine.
(n.) See Ilium.
Example Sentences:
(1) The use of glucagon in double-contrast studies of the colon has been recommended for various reasons, one of which is to facilitate reflux of barium into the terminal ileum.
(2) Autopsy revealed serious somatic diseases (stenosis of the ileum in two cases and brain tumor in one); their symptoms had been largely overlapped by those of anorexia nervosa.
(3) Angiotensin tachyphylaxis was studied in the isolated guinea pig ileum under isometric conditions.
(4) The effect of p-nitrophenylphosphate (p-NPP) on the release of acetylcholine evoked by drugs and ionic environments known to inhibit Na+, K+-ATPase was studied in isolated cortical slices of rat brain and longitudinal muscle strip of guinea-pig ileum.
(5) The mechanisms underlying the biphasic response (BR) of the circular muscle of the guinea pig ileum (CMGPI) to bradykinin (BK) have been examined.
(6) At a concentration of 10 microM, tetraamine 4 did not affect histamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors of guinea pig ileum or alpha-adrenoreceptors of guinea pig atria whereas it inhibited postsynaptic alpha-adrenoreceptors of rat vas deferens with a -log K value of 5.23 and nicotinic receptors of frog rectus abdominis with an IC50 value of 0.23 microM.
(7) A case of low atresia of the ileum, diagnosed prenatally by real-time ultrasound scanning, is presented.
(8) This site-specific infection of the ileum by reovirus may provide a model for diseases that are restricted to specific sites in the intestine.
(9) Differences in sensitivity to phenoxybenzamine and pA2 values suggest the existence of at least two and possibly three neurokinin receptors in the guinea-pig ileum.
(10) In short-term studies, luminal biotin disappearance from rat ileum was about half that observed in the jejunum, whereas absorption by proximal colon was about 12% of that in the jejunum.
(11) Varicose fibres were found in the myenteric plexuses of the duodenum, jejunum, ileum and colon.
(12) In vitro tests with isolated trachea or ileum of guinea pigs show that flupirtine possesses no or very weak antagonism against histamine-induced spasms.
(13) The serum from animals which had received injections into the proximal small intestine had high radioactivity and one peak at 7S; the serum from animals which had received injections into the ileum had low radioactivity and no activity in the 7S region.
(14) A study was made of the innervation of the longitudinal muscle of the toad ileum with particular emphasis on the splanchnic innervation by non-adrenergic, non-cholinergic (NANC) nerves.
(15) Production of F41 in vivo was demonstrated by immunofluorescence assay of sections of ileum and by seroconversion against F41 antigen by pigs challenged with F41+ and K99+ F41+ ETEC strains.
(16) The virus has an affinity for the alimentary tract, especially the ileum and right colon.
(17) The maternal venous blood concentration of atropine, determined by bioassay on guinea pig ileum, decreased rapidly in the first 3--5 min and very slowly therafter.
(18) From these results, it is concluded that TM-906 produces, depending on the contractile activity of the preparations, a potentiation or an inhibition of the spontaneous contraction of duodenum and ileum in both guinea pigs and rabbits and that the potentiation by TM-906 is more pronounced in the ileum than in the duodenum.
(19) Biological activity has been determined on the rabbit pulmonary artery (RPA) and hamster trachea (HT) preparations, chosen as representative of the NK-2A and NK-2B receptor subtypes, respectively, and on the rabbit bronchus (RB), guinea-pig bronchus (GPB), human urinary bladder (HuUB), human ileum (HuI) and human colon (HuC) preparations to verify the previously described NK-2A character of these tissues.
(20) Affected lymph nodes from 3 patients with Crohn's disease were homogenised and inoculated intramurally into the distal ileum of five piglets.