What's the difference between melena and tarry?

Melena


Definition:

  • (n.) See Melaena.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A 54 year old white male died three months after hospitalization for hematemesis and melena due to a duodenal ulcer and two monthos after the subsequent onset of progressive ascites and edema.
  • (2) The two patients were women, one a 45-year-old who consulted for pain, epigastric discomfort and melenas, and the other a 76-year-old who consulted for paraneoplastic syndrome and a palpable mass in the right lower quadrant.
  • (3) A case of primary lymphoma of the stomach with massive hematemesis and melena who underwent emergency gastrectomy is reported.
  • (4) In all active rectal haemorrhages (14 massive, 41 medium) an urgent colonoscopy has been carried out with a percentage of success of 90%; in the 20 cases of unexplained melena, colonoscopy has not led to a diagnosis; in the 14 patients with unexplained anemia, colonoscopy has shown 2 carcinomas, whereas in the 5 cases with occult blood in stools it has been diagnostic in the percentage of 60%.
  • (5) A 60-year-old man was admitted with the complaint of melena.
  • (6) Exploratory abdominal surgery in a budgerigar with a history of lethargy, feather fluffing, and melena revealed a neoplastic mass associated with the jejunal muscularis.
  • (7) Three patients have had melena and one had persistently guaiac-positive stools.
  • (8) Hematemesis and melena may be observed as in the Rendu-Osler disease.
  • (9) The results indicate that lethargy is an important symptom in patients with intussusception when occurring in association with vomiting, melena, or a palpable abdominal mass, or all three.
  • (10) One patient had three days of melena and responded to non-operative therapy.
  • (11) Epistaxis was diagnosed in 10 patients with apparent upper gastrointestinal bleeding, comprising a 0.55% incidence of hematemesis and melena in the population studied.
  • (12) In 1986, she had a history of melena and prolonged bleeding after dental extraction.
  • (13) After the operation, she developed ascites and watery diarrhea, though there was no episode of hematemesis and melena.
  • (14) A 50-year-old woman was admitted on Feb. 25, 1983, complaining of hematemesis and melena.
  • (15) An 82-year-old woman presented with extensive hematomas and melena associated with markedly decreased plasma factor V coagulant activity (FV:C).
  • (16) The diagnosis of a bleeding Meckel's diverticulum was made by angiography in a 71 year old man who presented with melena and hemorrhagic shock.
  • (17) Hematemesis, melena, shock, vague symptoms, anemia, blood examinations and endoscopic findings are reviewed as signs of recent hemorrhage.
  • (18) Simultaneously with the hypogastric pain, hypotension, growing circumference of the abdomen and increasing anaemia--without hematemesis or melena--referred to intraabdominal hemorrhage, which was confirmed by diagnostic paracentesis.
  • (19) We reported a 44 year old man with micronodular cirrhosis who eventually died from massive hematemesis and melena.
  • (20) Histamine H2 antagonists are widely used in treating patients with hematemesis and melena, despite the lack of reliable evidence of benefit from any of the randomized trials, considered separately.

Tarry


Definition:

  • (n.) Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.
  • (v. i.) To stay or remain behind; to wait.
  • (v. i.) To delay; to put off going or coming; to loiter.
  • (v. i.) To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge.
  • (v. t.) To delay; to defer; to put off.
  • (v. t.) To wait for; to stay or stop for.
  • (n.) Stay; stop; delay.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During the next 8 months, she repeated abdominal pain, tarry stool and subcutaneous hemorrhage for three times and after an angiography large hematoma at puncture site appeared.
  • (2) Initially, the steer passed tarry feces for 2 days, but no feces were passed for 4 days before examination.
  • (3) Endoscopic examination of a 35-year-old patient complaining of tarry stool, palpitation and lumbago led to a diagnosis of gastric cancer of Borrmann type 4.
  • (4) Uncommon also is the tarrying behaviour of nephropathy.
  • (5) They waited, swaying like new calves, still wet from their tarry sacs, swinging umbrella-sized cranes.
  • (6) Many authors have reported that urological anomalies associate commonly with this syndrome, but recently a new concept of this syndrome was proposed by Tarry and associates.
  • (7) Postoperatively, tarry stool was passed, for which she received an examination at the department of internal medicine.
  • (8) With single (35 patients) and five-consecutive-day (36 patients) administration, the dose-limiting factor was found to be tarry stool, remarkable decrease in hemoglobin content, and strong nipple and breast pain.
  • (9) Tarry a minute on Prince, before we get on to the commissioning splice that led to two different organisations being paid for this stewarding, while some stewards themselves got paid with a bag of wet carbohydrate.
  • (10) A 45 day old boy presented with progressive abdominal distension, tarry stools and anemia.
  • (11) Its chief executive, Stewart Wingate, said: “A low-cost carrier flying to the Big Apple for a small price shows how fast aviation is changing and highlights one of a series of future trends that will have a huge bearing on the UK’s runways debate.” The airport unveiled a new report by independent aviation consultant Chris Tarry, which set out how the latest generation of aircraft could affect London airport expansion, with a fuel economy, size and range that lowers the need for connecting passengers and opens up the development of low-cost long-haul services.
  • (12) A 61-year-old man with weight loss, malaise, and tarry stool demonstrated diffuse lymphoma, large-cell type, and two early gastric carcinomas.
  • (13) The second case is a 40-year-old man who developed tarry stools 5 days after renal transplantation.
  • (14) The cohort was studied because employment in some of the plants had been linked to malignant and nonmalignant skin lesions attributed to exposure to tarry by-products.
  • (15) At one point in this first volume, Twain observes that man is loving and loveable to his own, but "otherwise the buzzing, busy, trivial enemy of his race – who tarries his little day, does his little dirt, commends himself to God, and then goes out into the darkness, to return no more, and send no messages back – selfish even in death".
  • (16) In December, 1986, repeated tarry stool was noted, and he was readmitted to hospital on January, 28, 1987, because of severe anemia.
  • (17) Sometimes, when I've missed the football by choosing to tarry in the pub, I discover that I don't need the English subtitles at all and can understand perfectly what lovely Birgitte is saying in her native Danish.
  • (18) Reported is the case of a 57-year-old male patient, who manifested tarry stool and who had undergone a subtotal gastrectomy at our hospital in 1983 for an early carcinoma, type IIc, which proved to be a well differentiated tubular adenocarcinoma.
  • (19) On twenty-one months after discharge, the patient noticed left leg pain and tarry stool, and was referred to our hospital.
  • (20) A 65-year-old male was admitted complaining of tarry stool and angina.

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