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Perineal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the perineum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A case of incomplete peno-scrotal transposition, with a perineal anorectal duplication, vesico-ureteric reflux and thoracic hemivertebrae is presented.
  • (2) Behavioral biofeedback has been used in a 7-year-old boy who had learned to isolate and to contract the perineal muscles appropriately by 12 months of followup.
  • (3) A 5-F nephrostomy catheter system for use in perinates and young infants is described.
  • (4) Parallel to the traditional lateral cystogram with chain, perineal sonography as was employed as avisual procedure on 50 patients, who presented themselves at our clinic for urodynamic screening for clinical incontinence.
  • (5) A case is reported of a male infant with congenital palmoplantar keratoderma and nail dystrophy who developed progressive perioral and perineal keratoderma.
  • (6) A surgical technique consisting of reconstruction of the perineal body (perineoplasty) with puborectalis interposition and overlapping external sphincteroplasty is described to correct the defect and restore continence.
  • (7) Pelvic nerve: vagina, cervix, and perineal skin; hypogastric nerve: cervix and proximal three fifths of the uterus; pudendal nerve: skin of perineum, inner thigh, and clitoral sheath.
  • (8) A 42 year old female presented with a 6 year history of a perineal mass.
  • (9) They used a simple device to study the mean position of the perineal plane both at rest and under switch.
  • (10) He had a history of low birth weight, covered anus, and perineal fistula.
  • (11) Ultrasound and pulsed electromagnetic energy therapies are increasingly used for perineal trauma sustained during childbirth.
  • (12) Oestradiol benzoate, while as potent as testosterone propionate in maintaining SNB neurone numbers, could not maintain the perineal muscles which are their normal target.
  • (13) In 193 primiparas with spontaneous vaginal delivery, postpartum perineal pain and insufficiency symptoms and their duration were evaluated by means of a questionnaire, 15-24 months post partum.
  • (14) Normal cycling females were bred to proven males by using the degree of perineal swelling and vaginal cytology to determine onset of ovulation.
  • (15) Dysfunction of the internal and external anal sphincter was found after perineal mucosal dissection and was correlated to continence function.
  • (16) They were on the whole satisfied with antenatal classes (there seemed to be a need for more information in the form of an on-the-ward postnatal class), disliked the practice of perineal shaves (but did not object to enemas or rupture of membranes) and felt they had adequate analgesia (although not for after-pains or the discomfort of haemorrhoids in the puerperium).
  • (17) Perineal involvement was identified in 24 patients, but did not significantly influence survival.
  • (18) Perineal bacterial flora varies in number and type of organisms from hour to hour and day to day.
  • (19) Poor perineal healing is a major complication of total or partial pelvic exenteration especially when the pelvis and perineum have previously been irradiated.
  • (20) Perineal seeding after prostatic needle biopsy is uncommon but its occurrence suggests a poor prognosis.

Perineum


Definition:

  • (n.) The region which is included within the outlet of the pelvis, and is traversed by the urinogenital canal and the rectum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Exteriorization is accomplished by mobilizing 2 lateral skin flaps from the perineum and joining them with the inverted U flap to reach the vagina.
  • (2) Pelvic nerve: vagina, cervix, and perineal skin; hypogastric nerve: cervix and proximal three fifths of the uterus; pudendal nerve: skin of perineum, inner thigh, and clitoral sheath.
  • (3) Early operation enables the child to learn to use its perineum.
  • (4) Radiation was delivered to the perineum and pelvis to a total dose of 4,080 cGy in 4.5-5 weeks.
  • (5) He remained in complete remission for 18 mo, when he developed a chloroma in the perineum.
  • (6) A 14-year-old boy with Langerhans cell histiocytosis of the spinal cord who presented with progressive enlarged bilateral inguinal masses, difficulty in urination, walking and paresthesia in the left lower extremity and perineum is reported.
  • (7) All infants underwent oropharyngeal suctioning with a DeLee catheter while the head was still on the perineum.
  • (8) Poor perineal healing is a major complication of total or partial pelvic exenteration especially when the pelvis and perineum have previously been irradiated.
  • (9) There was a significant difference between the groups in the position of the perineum with respect to the ischial tuberosities at rest (p less than 0.025) and on defaecation straining (p less than 0.005).
  • (10) Two patients with a necrotizing soft tissue infection of the scrotum and perineum are described.
  • (11) The flora of the anterior urethra is strongly correlated to that of the perineum (37.1%), as well as that of the bladder (52.6%).
  • (12) Among others, a modified suture technique for correcting the combined laceration of Perineum-Ampulla recti-areal (third degree perineal laceration) and a modification of the method for correcting pneumovagina are described.
  • (13) We report the results of a procedure aimed at correcting the disorders of rectal and perineal tone responsible for the descending perineum syndrome (DPS).
  • (14) A characteristic urodynamic pattern, not previously described, was observed, consisting of choreiform contractions of the abdominal perineal floor muscles during filling with selective suppression of choreiform contractions in the perineum during detrusor contraction.
  • (15) A simplified approach to the surgical treatment of hidradenitis supprativa of the groin and perineum is presented.
  • (16) Dyspareunia measured on an analogue scale relative to pre-pregnancy values (mean values) was significantly greater three months after a mediolateral episiotomy (35%) than after vaginal delivery with intact perineum (9%) or Caesarean Section (16%) and similar to the value following second degree perineal laceration (29%).
  • (17) Four patients with AIDS who developed progressive ulcerative mucocutaneous lesions of the genitals, perineum, perianal region, or finger due to acyclovir-resistant, thymidine-kinase (TK)-negative strains of HSV-2.
  • (18) The presence of quadriplegia correlated with Klebsiella colonization and also with the presence of positive Klebsiella cultures from the urethra and perineum.
  • (19) At this site this rare tumour must be distinguished from basal cell carcinoma of the perineum and from malignant basaloid (cloacogenic) carcinoma of the anal canal.
  • (20) Radiotherapy (RT) was started simultaneously: 36 Gy was given in 4 weeks to the anal region with perineum and the lower and middle pelvis, including inguinal and external iliac nodes.

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