What's the difference between lochia and serous?

Lochia


Definition:

  • (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.

Serous


Definition:

  • (a.) Thin; watery; like serum; as the serous fluids.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to serum; as, the serous glands, membranes, layers. See Serum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma has distinctly different clinical behavior compared to serous carcinoma and should be regarded as an aggressive epithelial histologic type.
  • (2) The percentage of positive cases was highest in the serous MEE group (81.2%) and decreased in the purulent MEE group (57%), the mucoid MEE group (30%), and the hyperviscous MEE group (13.6%), in that order.
  • (3) The serous fluid of mice was used as a source of endogenous DNAse I.
  • (4) Incorporation of [2-14C] sodium acetate into 7-dehydrocholesterol ketoderivative, cholesta-4,7-dien-3-on, was studied in the tissues of the rat stomach secretory and esophageal parts and in the mucous and serous membranes of the small intestine.
  • (5) Ovarian tumors were noted in all 27 patients, including 2 primary carcinomas and 14 serous cystadenomas.
  • (6) In the case of a massive serous pleural effusion examination of the ingredients leads to diagnosis.
  • (7) We examined the immunocytochemical localization of amylase in cryofixed serous acinar cells of gerbil major salivary glands by indirect immunostaining, using anti-gerbil parotid amylase antibody and protein A-gold complex.
  • (8) However, in human lungs, lysozyme was identified in serous submucosal glands but not in alveolar type II pneumocytes.
  • (9) The amount of the fluid flowing off the vessels, perfusate penetration into the intestinal lumen and its transudation through the serous membrane were determined.
  • (10) The terminology of the pericardial sinuses and recesses has been inconsistent, and the authors propose a nomenclature for standardizing the names of the recesses of the serous pericardium.
  • (11) Flow cytometric analysis of DNA content and ras p21 expression were studied in paraffin-embedded normal ovary (NO, n = 10), serous cystadenoma (SA, n = 11), serous tumors of low malignant potential (LMP, n = 13), and papillary serous cystadenocarcinoma (SCa, n = 7).
  • (12) Two previously unnamed recesses within the serous pericardium are defined and named, one the inferior aortic recess of the transverse sinus and the other, the right pulmonic recess of the transverse sinus.
  • (13) In hypertension, all the components are affected in the microcirculatory bed of serous membranes: arterioles, precapillaries, capillaries, postcapillaries, venules, lymph capillaries and postcapillaries.
  • (14) Serous granules were stained by toluidine blue, or by hematoxylin and eosin (H and E), but showed little or no reaction with periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) or Alcian blue.
  • (15) Chronic serous otitis media was a frequent finding but deafness was rarely profound.
  • (16) We created serous retinal detachment in the cat eye by means of photodynamic injury produced by activation of intravascular rose bengal using filtered, focused light (550 nm).
  • (17) Uterine papillary serous carcinoma (UPSC), FIGO grade 3, nuclear grade 3, and age were the major independent prognostic factors.
  • (18) A patient with a strongly positive family history underwent a prophylactic oophorectomy and, 5 years later, developed a primary peritoneal papillary serous adenocarcinoma.
  • (19) Ophthalmoscopic examination disclosed a single, white, elevated mass lesion surrounded by serous retinal detachment located in the upper part of the macula of the right eye.
  • (20) These cells express serous cell phenotype as reflected by ultrastructure, histochemistry, and lysozyme activity.