(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.
Ileus
Definition:
(n.) A morbid condition due to intestinal obstruction. It is characterized by complete constipation, with griping pains in the abdomen, which is greatly distended, and in the later stages by vomiting of fecal matter. Called also ileac, / iliac, passion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The combination of an over-distended uterus caused by a multiple-fetus pregnancy with therapeutic bed-rest may cause mechanical ileus.
(2) Two of the ten patients developed mild symptoms of (sub)ileus that could be treated conservatively.
(3) The diagnosis of a small intestinal obstruction was made prenatally between the 31st and 36th week of pregnancy in 7 patients with neonatal ileus.
(4) Compared with conventional surgery, the advantages of laparoscopic cholecystectomy are well known: the entire peritoneal cavity is explored; the lack of postoperative ileus makes it possible to resume normal feeding, and hence normal activity, after a short interruption; systemic and parietal complications are less frequent, but the biliary tract complication rate is higher, probably in relation to the operator's training.
(5) The patient subsequently developed paralytic ileus with lesions of the intestinal wall, probably based on ischemia as a result of this arteritis.
(6) Postoperative ileus, nausea, vomiting, and urinary retention were the most common surgical complications.
(7) Adrenoceptor blockade in untreated rats reduced the ileus in response to peritoneal irritation to approximately the same degree as treatment with capsaicin.
(8) Their courses were characterized by significant early postoperative hemodynamic compromise, abdominal distention, ileus, fever, and episodes of late vascular instability associated with hypocalcemia.
(9) Three patients with chronic diarrhoea, paralytic ileus and malabsorption are reported.
(10) Ileus was detected by means of general abdominal sonography from three of 14 of the authors' own patients from whom negative findings had been recorded by X-ray examinations.
(11) The goal of treating postoperative ileus must be decompression of the intestine in order to prevent further development of the disease.
(12) Six cases of lung cancer combined with the disease which has needed semi-emergency operation, two cases of unstable angina, two of ileus due to colon cancer, one of impending rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm and one of purulent cholecystitis with cholelithiasis, were discussed.
(13) As in other published cases of ileus associated with pheochromocytoma, high urinary catecholamine concentrations were found in our patient and the tumor resected at surgery was large.
(14) Patients were evaluated for length of hospital stay, duration of postoperative ileus, adequacy of intraoperative intestinal decompression, gastric dilatation, and operative complications.
(15) Of the remaining 16 patients with unresolved meconium ileus, nine were treated with laparotomy and ileostomy, and one with laparotomy and T-tube irrigation.
(16) Preventive intestinal intubation for ileus prophylaxis in cases of diffuse peritonitis and extended adhesion ileus had often been discredited for the technically demanding and thus time-consuming technique involved.
(17) The most frequent complication was paralytic intestinal ileus.
(18) Aetiopathogenesis, diagnosis as well as typical and atypical courses are described and discussed with regard to 50 patients with gallstone ileus.
(19) He developed stress ulcers, pulmonary thromboembolism, sepsis, paralytic ileus and bilateral ureteral fistula.
(20) The duration of epidural analgesia varied between 1 and 15 days depending on the intensity of symptoms (pain, ileus).