What's the difference between peristalsis and segmentation?

Peristalsis


Definition:

  • (n.) Peristaltic contraction or action.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The goals of treatment are the restoration of normal gut peristalsis and the correction of nutritional deficiencies.
  • (2) Case histories of two patients with hypertensive LES and normal peristalsis in the body of the esophagus are contrasted to that of a patient with a hypertensive LES and diffuse esophageal spasm.
  • (3) Within 2 days after surgical correction of the bronchoesophageal fistula, peristalsis in the thoracic portion of the esophagus returned to normal and the esophagus resumed its normal size.
  • (4) The incidence of leakage, fistula formation, luminal stricture, peristalsis disturbance, lining loss, the quality of surface restoration, bursting strength, and wound healing were evaluated.
  • (5) Multiple factors contribute to the production of esophagitis in gastroesophageal reflux (GER), but the respective roles of esophageal (i. e. lower esophageal sphincter (LES) tone, peristalsis) and gastric factors (i. e. acid secretion and gastric emptying) are not well known.
  • (6) Peristalsis of the stomach was noted as early as 14 weeks' gestation.
  • (7) In conclusion, increased bolus viscosity significantly alters human esophageal peristalsis.
  • (8) Pressures generated by peristalsis are greater in the middle of the esophagus than at the ends.
  • (9) to treat a colic or to accelerate the spontaneous discharge of stones, seems to be only rarely possible: Glucagone shows a markable decrease of ureteral peristalsis in animal experiments.
  • (10) This represents the first reported case of return of esophageal peristalsis in idiopathic achalasia.
  • (11) They are involved in "receptive relaxation" of the stomach, "descending inhibition" in peristalsis and reflex relaxation of oesophageal and internal anal sphincters.
  • (12) 2 Some prostaglandin synthesis inhibitors, and antagonists of prostaglandin action were tested for their suitability for studying the role of prostaglandins in peristalsis.
  • (13) Abnormal propagation of esophageal peristalsis was seen in six patients, all of whom had moderate or severe esophagitis.
  • (14) We investigated the possibility that local input can modulate the basic off-response through intrinsic mechanisms and make it resemble more closely the sequential ring contractions that move boluses in the esophagus of intact animals (esophageal peristalsis).
  • (15) Stimulation of peristalsis or a decrease of intraluminal pressure has been described manometrically after intraluminal administration of laxatives including senna.
  • (16) This study examines the effect of graded doses of the H2 blocker cimetidine on acid secretion and ulcerogenesis occurring during insulin-induced peristalsis in the indomethacin (Indo) -pretreated rat.
  • (17) Dry swallows have little use in the current evaluation of esophageal peristalsis.
  • (18) The pattern of small intestinal peristalsis, presence of colonic haustra, and progressive changes in the colon's intraluminal echogenicity were also evaluated.
  • (19) However, despite raised intravesical pressures, peristalsis in the isoperistaltic afferent tubular segment gradually returned contrast medium back to the reservoir.
  • (20) Chronic ileal obstruction was apparently due to disordered peristalsis caused by the fold tethering the adjoining posterior bowel wall.

Segmentation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of dividing into segments; specifically (Biol.), a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From 1982 to 1989, bronchoplasty or segmental bronchoplasty and pulmonary arterioplasty in combination with lobectomy and segmentectomy were performed for 9 patients with central type lung carcinoma.
  • (2) The ability of azelastine to influence antigen-induced contractile responses (Schultz-Dale phenomenon) in isolated tracheal segments of the guinea-pig was investigated and compared with selected antiallergic drugs and inhibitors of arachidonic acid metabolism.
  • (3) The adjacent gauge was separated from the ischemic segment by one large nonoccluded diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.
  • (4) Electronmicroscopical investigations have revealed that, under normal conditions, a minor vesicular transfer of intravenously injected peroxidase occurs across the endothelium in segments of arterioles, capillaries and venules, especially in arterioles with a diameter about 15-30 mu.
  • (5) Graft life is even more prolonged with patch angioplasty at venous outflow stenoses or by adding a new segment of PTFE to bypass areas of venous stenosis.
  • (6) Complementarity determining regions (CDR) are conserved to different extents, with the first CDR region in all family members being among the most conserved segments of the molecule.
  • (7) The active agents modestly improved treadmill exercise duration time until 1 mm ST segment depression (3%), and only propranolol and diltiazem had significant effects.
  • (8) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
  • (9) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
  • (10) A segment of vas deferens was transplanted to the contralateral deferens with the intention of improving treatment for certain cases of infertility caused by obstruction.
  • (11) The family comprises at least three variable (V) gene segments, three constant (C) gene segments, and three junction (J) gene segments.
  • (12) The reducing equivalents could be donated by formate or NADH through some segment of the membrane respiratory chain.
  • (13) Two hours after refeeding rats fasted for 48 h, ODC activity increased 40-fold in mucosa from the intact jejunum and 4-fold in the mucosa of the bypassed segments.
  • (14) Expressed per centimeter of gut length, total DAO activity was also enhanced by +141% in segment B (P less than 0.05 vs controls) and by +87% in segment C (P less than 0.01 vs controls) of resected rats.
  • (15) [125I]AaIT was shown to cross the midgut of Sarcophaga through a morphologically distinct segment of the midgut previously shown to be permeable to a cytotoxic, positively charged polypeptide of similar molecular weight.
  • (16) Axons emerge from proximal dendrites within 50 microns of the soma, and more rarely from the soma, in a tapering initial segment, commonly interrupted by one or two large swellings.
  • (17) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
  • (18) Combined SEM and TEM examination of the endothelium of compressed segments revealed "craters" and "balloons", blebs and vacuoles, swollen mitochondria, dilated granular endoplasmic reticulum, and subendothelial edema.
  • (19) It may, however, be useful to compare local wall dynamics in the more isometrically-contracting basal segment with those in the middle portion which brings about most of the emptying of the ventricle.
  • (20) In addition to terminating at the brachial segments, they had one to three collaterals to the upper cervical cord (C3-C4), where the propriospinal neurons projecting to forelimb motoneurons are located.

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