(a.) Of or pertaining to the intestines of an animal; as, the intestinal tube; intestinal digestion; intestinal ferments.
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.
Obstipation
Definition:
(n.) The act of stopping up, as a passage.
(n.) Extreme constipation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Following abdominal rectopexy and resection obstipation was reduced in 9 of 13 patients (70 percent).
(2) A 64-year-old female patient was admitted to our department for fatigue, pain in the right upper abdomen, obstipation, and meteorism.
(3) Common but usually mild side effects were sedation, hypersalivation, weight gain, and obstipation.
(4) Only a part of the patients who present with chronic obstipation have colonic inertia which is characterized by a slow transit through the entire colon.
(5) Episodes of severe hyperventilation with aerophagia, immobility and obstipation facilitated the occurrence of an interposition of the colon.
(6) Whereas ileal obstipation and other forms of obstructive ileus were revealed to have a fair prognosis, a long-term cure could be achieved in only half of the patients with either a string foreign body, intussusception or an intestinal adhesion.
(7) Symptoms included nausea, vomiting, cramp-like abdominal pain and obstipation.
(8) After initial improvement diarrhoea and obstipation alternated so that the patient finally gave permission for coloscopy to which he had not consented at first.
(9) We believe that this is the first report of the use of a button gastrostomy device to successfully manage chronic obstipation and recurrent fecal impaction in children.
(10) One child had pseudoobstruction syndrome complicated by recurrent obstipation; the other had cystic fibrosis complicated by recurrent obstruction from meconium ileus equivalent.
(11) Therapy aims to stop the vicious circle of increased resting pressure, decreased perfusion, pain and obstipation.
(12) It usually presents with "colicky" abdominal pain, long-standing constipation or obstipation, and increasing distention of several days' duration.
(13) Obstipation is a common problem which is often treated with prunes, raisins or sweetened laxatives.
(14) Chronic obstipation has been suppressed; gait and muscular atrophy have been ameliorated.
(15) A 77 year old man was treated for duodenal ulcer and obstipation for 2 years; the diagnosis was not confirmed by endoscopy.
(16) When signs of obstipation had continued for a longer period, and megacolon had developed, such treatment was minimally effective (n = 4).
(17) Until now, no pathologic explanation could be found for the postoperative obstipation occurring in some patients with intestinal aganglionosis.
(18) Cramping abdominal pain, vomiting, obstipation often followed by diarrhea, tender distended abdomen, high pitched bowel sounds and abdominal x-rays revealed dilatation of small and large intestine and delayed gastric emptying on various admissions.
(19) Although well tolerated by most healthy animals, hypertonic phosphate enemas should be avoided in small animals, especially those that are dehydrated, severely obstipated, or suffering from renal or colonic disease.
(20) Obstipations due to improper forms of nutrition may be considered to be another noxa causing venous disorders.