(n. pl.) The discharge from the womb and vagina which follows childbirth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Symptomatology perceived incorrectly as abnormal: a) In pregnancy: Frequent urination: 17 per cent, morning nausea in the 1st trimester: 9 per cent, emotional instability: 21 per cent, Braxton Hicks contractions: 41 per cent, and b) Postpartum period: Decreased quantity in lochia rubra: 9 per cent, non-fetid lochia alba: 43 per cent, calostrum: 20 per cent.
(2) The symptom most frequent were fever (100), foul-smelling lochia (61.1%) and uterine tenderness (60%).
(3) Cytologic analysis of lochia in 118 puerperae helped distinguish 5 types of cytograms.
(4) b) In puerperium: Increased quantity in lochia rubra: 17 per cent, fever: 22 per cent, fetid lochia: 28 per cent, and c) In breastfeeding: Breasts red and warm: 48 per cent, fever: 30 per cent, nipple fissures: 70 per cent.
(5) Results of the serological examinations of blood, collected simultaneously with the lochia samples, correlated fairly well with those obtained microscopically.
(6) Of the lochia samples collected from 210 cows and heifers within 12-24 h after parturition or abortion, 10.9% were bacteriologically positive.
(7) Cases were significantly more likely to have foul lochia (51.1% vs. 20%; p = .005) and abdominal pain (77.1% vs. 46.7%; p = .02).
(8) The median total duration of lochia was 33 days, lochia rubra 4 days and lochia serosa 22 days.
(9) Passage of lochia in the urine, instead of through the cervix has not been described in the literature.
(10) Characteristics that identify normal lochia are reviewed, as are important nursing assessment parameters.
(11) BHV4 was isolated from the lochia from 55% of the animals on farm A and 66% of those on farm B.
(12) Each woman completed a diary sheet describing the colour and duration of her lochia for up to 60 days post partum.
(13) The clinical picture was preceded by skin rash which became a pyoderma, and ended up as desquamation; there were several alterations: hepatic, renal, hematological (disseminated intravascular coagulation) and digestive (gastroenteritis); and Staphylococcus aureus (coagulase positive) was isolated from the skin, lochia, coproculture; and they were negative to this microorganism the ones from blood, urine and pharynx.
(14) The strains from the lochiae and placenta as well as those from the organs of sheep were detected already as primocultures on commonly used blood agar, the other strains after varying periods of cold enrichment and subsequent inoculation on a solid selective medium with nalidixic acid and acriflavin.
(15) The phases of lochia were divided according to the classical description; lochia rubra, serosa and alba.
(16) From October 1977 to May 15, 1989 in Slovakia 39 strongly haemolytic strains of L. ivanovii were isolated from a woman after delivery of a stillborn foetus--from the lochiae, placenta and rectal smear, from five symptom-free subjects from the faeces, from the rectal smears of two sheep, from the intestinal contents in the portion of the terminal ileus from 28 free living small terrestrial mammals, one strain from meat--beef steak, from the lungs, liver and kidneys of a dead young sheep and one strain from silage.
(17) 213 lochia samples and 196 urine samples from pregnant women have been examined.
(18) The duration of lochia was shorter in parous women and women with smaller babies.
(19) A history of foul lochia (p less than 0.01) and abdominal pain (p = 0.02) were associated with postpartum endometritis.
(20) The effect of the sulfonamide in the drug "Solupront" is impaired after application in the uterus in order of the quick absorption, of distribution and excretion and also in order of dilution by lochia and by interaction with p-aminobenzoic acid.
Lochial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the lochia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lochial acid-base status was analyzed in 45 puerperants in whom the postpartum period ran an uncomplicated course or was complicated by endometritis.
(2) Hemoglobin and bacteriological studies were done periodically in both groups and amount of lochial discharge and menstrual patterns were recorded.
(3) A new method has been developed for rapid diagnosis of puerperial endometritis, based on measurements of lochial pH, pCO2, and pO2.
(4) Clinical and laboratory parameters were followed in dynamics as well as microbiological examination of lochial and wounded secretion in dynamics.
(5) Fever occurred only in 2 other patients whose cultures were sterile; one had bronchial pneumonia and the other had positive transcervical lochial culture.
(6) The most striking clinical signs included the early onset of uterine tenderness followed by an abrupt temperature elevation to greater than or equal to 102 F. At the time of uterine tenderness (Day 2, postpartum), 4 of 5 patients had gram-stained lochial smears showing a predominance of gram-positive cocci.