(a.) Uttered by the mouth, or in words; spoken, not written; verbal; as, oral traditions; oral testimony; oral law.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the mouth; surrounding or lining the mouth; as, oral cilia or cirri.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
(2) Prior to oral feeding, little or no ELA was detected in stools and endotoxinemia was ascertained in only six of 45 infants (13%).
(3) Intravesical BCG is clearly superior to oral BCG, and controlled studies have demonstrated that percutaneous administration is not necessary.
(4) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(5) This time is approximately six months for the neuroleptics given orally, one month for antidepressants, and five and a half half-lives for benzodiazepines.
(6) The diffusion of Myocamicin in the prostatic tissue of patients undergoing prostatectomy after a single oral dose of 600 mg has been studied.
(7) A quantitative comparison of tissue distribution and excretion of an orally administered sublethal dose of [3H]diacetoxyscirpenol (anguidine) was made in rats and mice 90 min, 24 hr, and 7 days after treatment.
(8) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
(9) Oral administration in domestic cats causes malignant hepatomas and tumors of the esophagus and kidney.
(10) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
(11) 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.
(12) The secretion of GH as measured by increased plasma level, in response to oral administration of 500 mg L-dopa or 30 min-infusion of arginine, was not modified by prior intravenous administration of 200 micrograms GH-releasing hormone (GHRH).
(13) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
(14) To the remaining patients who suffered from severe insomnia, 7-chloro-5-(2-chlorophenyl)-1,3-dihydro-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one (chlordesmethyldiazepam, 2 mg orally) was administered for 7 consecutive evenings.
(15) High-dose oral and intrathecal applications of viatamin B12 are also possible in the individual case.
(16) High radioactivities were observed in the digestive organs, mesenteric lymphnodes, liver, pancreas, urinary bladder, fat tissue, kidney and spleen after oral administration to rats.
(17) However, a recrudescence in both psychotic and depressive symptoms developed as plasma desipramine levels rose 4 times higher than anticipated from the oral doses prescribed.
(18) In order to develop a sampling strategy and a method for analyzing the circadian body temperature pattern, we monitored estimates of the temperature in four ways using rectal, oral, axillary and deep body temperature from the skin surface every hour for 72 consecutive hours in 10 normal control subjects.
(19) The terminal half-life averaged 12 h following intravenous and 15 h after oral administration.
(20) Cicaprost is an orally available analogue of PGI2 and has been shown to inhibit platelet aggregation in both in vitro and animal studies.
Stoma
Definition:
(n.) One of the minute apertures between the cells in many serous membranes.
(n.) The minute breathing pores of leaves or other organs opening into the intercellular spaces, and usually bordered by two contractile cells.
(n.) The line of dehiscence of the sporangium of a fern. It is usually marked by two transversely elongated cells. See Illust. of Sporangium.
(n.) A stigma. See Stigma, n., 6 (a) & (b).
Example Sentences:
(1) Follow-up studies up to 2 years postoperatively revealed satisfactorally functioning stomas in all of the patients.
(2) This surgical procedure involves removing the penile urethra and creating a permanent stoma between the skin and pelvic urethra.
(3) Both types of stoma were demonstrated objectively to defunction the distal bowel almost completely.
(4) Emergency stoma formation seems to be associated with the highest complication rates, probably because of suboptimal stoma placement.
(5) Acceptance of the stoma by family and friends was good and there were no major difficulties in practising sports and other hobbies.
(6) A universal ventilation laser fiberoptic tracheoscope has been developed for use in endoscopic treatment of patients with obstructing benign and malignant lesions of the subglottis-cervicotrachea and laryngectomy tracheal stoma.
(7) The method has been developed by the authors in view of the prevalence of strictures involving the terminal ureter and the stoma after unintubated cutaneous ureterostomy in case of a normal ureteral lumen.
(8) In both groups the patients developed post-operative pharyngo-cutaneous fistulae in approximately one third of the cases, and we found no obvious difference in the stoma's ability to shrink in the two groups.
(9) The procedure offers a choice of locations of the reservoir and stoma in most patients.
(10) Patients 60 years of age or older tolerate ileostomy well, but care of the stoma can cause problems.
(11) No patients with small bowel localization required a permanent stoma.
(12) The late complication in 3 cases was urinary incontinence of the efferent nipple valve with difficulty in catheterization of the stoma.
(13) In GPL mechanical fractures such as pouch volume and stoma size are of great importance, which is in accordance with earlier theories.
(14) A tapered distal ileal segment with a catheterizable abdominal stoma provided full continence in all 10 patients.
(15) Patients initially presenting with rectal involvement or perianal fistulas were prone to need a stoma during the course of their disease while intraabdominal fistulas, abscesses, age, sex, and longstanding disease where of no prognostic significance.
(16) Although only positive metabolic changes have been registered, we feel that gastroplasty, which is not without early postoperative complications and has a failure rate of about 30%, cannot be generally recommended until the problem of postoperative dilation of the stoma has been successfully solved.
(17) Diversion with a continent caecal reservoir was associated with fewer stoma-related problems and seemed to allow the patients greater freedom to continue activities such as sport, travel and social life.
(18) But the insertion of silicone T tube through the laryngeal stoma provided a satisfactory result for airway problem.
(19) Nipple stomas of at least 2 cm height were found to resist back-flow into the conduit better than any flat stoma.
(20) Between January 1, 1982 and June 30, 1987 a total of 122 patients suffering colorectal cancer (n = 88) or diverticulitis of the colon (n = 24) underwent surgery for construction of a transient defunctioning stoma.