(1) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
(2) In the present study, 125 oesophageal biopsies obtained under direct vision at endoscopy from 22 patients with Barrett's oesophagus were systematically studied using fluorescence and peroxidase antiperoxidase single and double-staining immunocytochemical methods employing highly specific antibodies to localize the following peptide-containing cell types in Barrett's mucosa: gastrin, somatostatin, gastric inhibitory polypeptide, motilin, neurotensin and pancreatic glucagon.
(3) After a review of the technical development and application of staplers from their introduction to the present day, the indications to the use of this instrument in all gastroenterological areas from the oesophagus to the rectum as well as in chest, gynaecological and urological surgery specified.
(4) Tuberculous oesophagitis is a very rare finding; of all organs, involvement of the oesophagus is the least likely.
(5) We now report on the Singapore Chinese experience, in which the following changes were notable: decreases in rates of cancers of the stomach and oesophagus and increases in rates of cancers of the lung, colon, rectum, skin (excluding melanoma), breast and ovary.
(6) Exacerbation of inflammation due to repeated traumatization of the oesophagus wall was accompanied by proliferation of the epithelial layers.
(7) Each group of cattle consisted of six permanent members, two members fistulated at the oesophagus and one worm-free tracer calf.
(8) The chance discovery of an oesophageal localisation of Crohn's disease led the authors to undertake routine study of the oesophagus in their last 18 patients suffering from the disorder.
(9) A patient with scleroderma of recent onset was found to have a carcinoma of the oesophagus.
(10) The experiments were carried out in dogs and cervical oesophagus replacement was performed using a jejunal loop.
(11) Results suggested that immediate proper assessment of the oesophagus and institution of appropriate therapy may reduce the incidence of complications associated with treatment of subsequent stricture formation.
(12) Fifty-six patients were operated upon by the method of Amdrup and Jensen (1970), including skeletonization of about 2 cm of the oesophagus.
(13) The interaction between the epithelial and connective-tissue structures was studied on 70 scarry changes in the oesophagus at various times (from 1 year to 45 years) following chemical burns.
(14) The analysis comprised a total of 37 human tissue specimens derived from patients who underwent surgery for cancer of the oesophagus in Linxian County (People's Republic of China); for comparison 12 tissue samples obtained from hospitals in Europe were similarly analysed.
(15) Perforation of the oesophagus, as well as a pneumothorax are described as complications of the use of a nasogastric feeding tube.
(16) Four patients with leiomyoma of the upper or middle third of the oesophagus treated by surgical excision are reported.
(17) The two forks of the GIA or the PLC 50 instrument are introduced into the oesophagus and jejunum, and the two organs are brought together at the hiatus.
(18) There is no satisfactory biomarker yet available for predicting the likelihood of premalignant changes or carcinoma developing in Barrett's or columnar lined oesophagus.
(19) It is therefore recommended that Aqueous Dionosil be used in preference to Gastrografin or Iopamidol for studies of the oesophagus whenever there is a danger of aspiration of contrast agent into the tracheobronchial tree.
(20) The proximal part of the oesophagus and hindgut were free of immunoreactive perkarya.
Windpipe
Definition:
(n.) The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.
Example Sentences:
(1) The physicist, who had a tube inserted into his windpipe 30 years ago after developing motor neurone disease, said he was considered to be "so far gone" that medics weighed up disconnecting his ventilator.
(2) Nitrogen and atom-% 15N excess (15N') were determined in the bones, the feathers and the remaining body (skin, lungs and windpipe, head with comb and wattle, lower leg without bones and with skin, pancreas and fatty tissue).
(3) "Once an order is issued, you should break the waists of the crazy enemies, totally cut their windpipes and so clearly show them what a real war is like," he said.
(4) But some stem cell treatments have been spectacularly successful, such as the rebuilding of Claudia Castillo's windpipe .
(5) Histological examination of contaminated fetuses showed a menacing growth of abnormal protuberances in the lungs as well as highly impeded formation of capillaries, although the windpipes exhibited normal expansion.
(6) He said he sustained a neck wound but the bullet missed the arteries and the windpipe.
(7) In fact, when there is a passage of air between the wall of the tube and the wall of the windpipe passage that we have when the flask is not adequately full of air, we get some bioelectrical modifications.
(8) She took a chance on the pioneering technique and is now the first person in the world to have a windpipe transplant that was engineered rather than entirely donated.
(9) Faulty intubation of the oesophagus and the right bronchus, aspirations and reflex-related circulatory failure during intubation as well as hypoxic damage as a result of the windpipe opening being impaired are discussed from the morphological point of view.
(10) China is the DPRK’s most dominant trade partner by far and could, should it choose, put one or more fingers to Kim Jong-un’s windpipe simply by stopping buying North Korean coal, seafood and other exports.
(11) 'It was a fatuous remark, but he had to say something to relieve his windpipe.
(12) Hedge, 34, underwent emergency surgery but is expected to make a full recovery after her attackers missed her windpipe and arteries.
(13) Then they seeded them on to a piece of donated windpipe, which was transformed into something her body recognised as one of its own organs.
(14) In the fury following her remarks there was little room for any recollection of how she herself narrowly survived an assassination attempt on the eve of the mayoral election in October when her windpipe was sliced through by a knife-bearing man who resented her support for refugees.
(15) Windpipes Another biological application that's in its early days: a doctor in New York whose team is working on 3D silicone tracheas which take 15 minutes to 3D-print .
(16) It can include using electric shocks to try to correct the rhythm of the heart, repeatedly pushing down firmly on the patient's chest and inflating the lungs with a mask or tube inserted into the windpipe.
(17) On this occasion he connected with Robert Huth’s windpipe, followed by a secondary swipe at Leicester’s centre-half.