What's the difference between inflammation and orchitis?
Inflammation
Definition:
(n.) The act of inflaming, kindling, or setting on fire; also, the state of being inflamed.
(n.) A morbid condition of any part of the body, consisting in congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.
(n.) Violent excitement; heat; passion; animosity; turbulence; as, an inflammation of the mind, of the body politic, or of parties.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) The authors followed up the occurrence of inflammation-mediated osteopenia (IMO) in young and adult rats weighing 50 g and 150 g, respectively.
(3) The base materials caused more pulpal inflammation than the control material, Kalzinol, although by an indirect mechanism.
(4) Achilles tendon overuse injuries exist as a spectrum of diseases ranging from inflammation of the paratendinous tissue (paratenonitis), to structural degeneration of the tendon (tendinosis), and finally tendon rupture.
(5) The authors describe the role played by these substances in the pathogenesis of inflammations, their importance in the regulation of intraocular pressure and in the development of cystoid macular oedema.
(6) The aim of our experiments was to investigate firstly whether during an acute inflammatory process platelets accumulate in the inflamed area and secondly whether the inflammation has an effect on the properties of the platelets.
(7) A patient with abdominal discomfort and hematemesis was found to have lower esophageal inflammation on endoscopy.
(8) Hence, presence of IgG rheumatoid factor correlated positively with the presence of rheumatoid disease, and evidence was established that certain features of rheumatoid inflammation occur in dental periapical lesions of many patients with rheumatoid disease.
(9) The development of pulmonary edema in high-altitude residents with upper respiratory infections and no antecedent low-altitude journey is consistent with the presence of other factors such as inflammation, which may play a role in the pathogenesis of the edema.
(10) Vulvovaginal inflammations and infections in the premenarchal child are caused by a large number of etiologic agents.
(11) However, coinciding with the height of inflammation and clinical signs at 12 dpi, the GFAP mRNA content dropped to approximately 50% of the level at 11 dpi but rose again at 13 dpi.
(12) Earlier recognition of foul-smelling mucoid discharge on the IUD tail, or abnormal bleeding, or both, as a sign of early pelvic infection, followed by removal of the IUD and institution of appropriate antibiotic therapy, might prevent the more serious sequelae of pelvic inflammation.
(13) On the other hand, the compound was more potent on secondary or late stage than on primary stage of inflammation, and to some extent showed the mode of action seen with steroid antiinflammatory drugs.
(14) Although the mechanism(s) by which melanin augments inflammation has not been defined, these data suggest that the binding of serum components (such as antibodies) to melanin may contribute to its proinflammatory effect.
(15) Morphologic and microbiologic study of the operation and biopsy specimens, obtained from 73 patients with odontogenic inflammatory processes has shown that in 38% of cases the inflammation was induced by mixed fungal and bacterial flora.
(16) Major reported complications include hemorrhage, perforation, biliary and pancreatic obstruction, and inflammation with intestinal obstruction.
(17) In adults it reappears in malignant tumors and during inflammation and tissue repair.
(18) The data indicate that activated helper T cells are required and sufficient to give rise to the inflammatory infiltrates that are characteristic of the inflammations and exacerbations in human rheumatoid arthritis.
(19) The mice that remained asymptomatic at this time showed few signs of inflammation and none developed clinical disease over the following 9 months.
(20) Experiments have been performed using CO2 laser-assisted microvascular anastomoses, and they demonstrated the following features, in comparison with conventional anastomoses: ease in technique; less time consumption; less tissue inflammation; early wound healing; equivalency of patency rate and inner pressure tolerance; but only about 50 percent of the tensile strength of manual-suture anastomosis.
Orchitis
Definition:
(n.) Inflammation of the testicles.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the group with a past history of mumps orchitis these parameters did not show any difference when compared with controls.
(2) Ultrasound was 100 per cent accurate in the evaluation of hydroceles, hematoceles, and paratesticular masses, but less informative in testicular abscesses (80%) and epididymo-orchitis (77%).
(3) Sperm chromatin heterogeneity has been evaluated in infertile males affected by different testicular diseases: 37 subjects had undergone orchidopexy in childhood (ex-cryptorchid), 50 were affected by idiopathic varicocele, 18 had a history of bilateral post-parotitis orchitis and 23 were "idiopathic infertiles".
(4) A 99MTc pertechnetate image demonstrated epididymo-orchitis and a hydrocele in a 15-year-old youth with painless scrotal swelling.
(5) A protocol was developed for reproducibly transferring experimental autoimmune orchitis (EAO) to naive recipient mice.
(6) This paper reports the results on 13 patients with mumps orchitis, with special consideration of 7 andrologically after-cared cases.
(7) One out of three male Hartley GPs immunized with 50 micrograms of the purified protein exhibited typical lesions of experimental allergic orchitis while none of a group of three animals developed lesions at a 5 micrograms dose.
(8) In bancroftian filariasis, the lymphatics of the male genitalia are frequently affected, leading to epididymo-orchitis and hydrocele.
(9) Experimental autoimmune orchitis (EAO) has been extensively studied in spite of which its pathogenic mechanisms are still poorly understood.
(10) The paper emphasized the role of mumps complicated by orchitis in the etiology of male subfertility with allowances for a possible development of testicular degeneration in the course of epidemic parotiditis alone, i.e.
(11) Guinea pigs and mice develop orchitis after immunization with killed streptococcus groups A (type 12) cells in complete adjuvant.
(12) The characteristic of this case is that the total deafness of right ear is associated with right parotitis and right orchitis.
(13) (4) Although the blood-testis barrier does sequester germ cells usually considered antigenic, immunoregulator factors other than the physical barrier seem to be involved in preventing autoimmune orchitis.
(14) Mononuclear cell infiltration of seminiferous tubules and rete testis was noted occasionally, supporting a diagnosis of autoimmune orchitis; although rare, this was an important observation as the sperm output became normal with adjuvant prednisolone therapy.
(15) The etiological differentiation between ischemic orchitis and testicular necrosis is based on the monitoring of testicular perfusion.
(16) In 69% the enlargement of the testicle was due to a tumor, in 4 patients due to acute orchitis and in 3 patients due to acute torsion.
(17) Infiltrations of inflammatory cells into the epididymal interstitium and lumen are part of the constellation of changes that occurs after immunization with testicular homogenates to produce experimental allergic orchitis.
(18) The prevalence of sexually transmitted infection was studied in 40 men presenting with acute epididymo-orchitis in Leeds.
(19) Hemocultures (sensitivity 0.73) and "specific" symptoms (prolonged fever, spondylitis, arthritis, orchitis and others) were the most useful data for diagnosis of relapse.
(20) We report the coexistence of otitis media and epididymo-orchitis owing to Hemophilus influenzae, type b in 2 children.