(n.) The bag or pouch which contains the testicles; the cod.
Example Sentences:
(1) The view that testes found lateral to the external ring and which could be pushed some way into the scrotum were merely retractile was questioned.
(2) By LHRH treatment 36 testes (20.5%) reached the scrotum, when HCG was added in unsuccessful cases 47 other gonads (26.8%) descended.
(3) Examination of the patient revealed 2 lumps detected in the right hemi-scrotum which felt like small testes and did not permit transillumination.
(4) Three infants presented with acute scrotal swelling, erythema, and a tender irreducible firm mass within the scrotum.
(5) Our experience indicates that the lower gastrointestinal tract should be considered as a possible cause of infection in all cases of synergistic gangrene of the scrotum and penis.
(6) However, in cases of delayed secondary scrotal surgery, or when a previous inflammatory process has existed in the scrotum, the limited scrotal distensibility may lead to further complications.
(7) Using the single criterion of presence or absence of identifiable intratesticular flow, the authors found that color Doppler was 86% sensitive, 100% specific, and 97% accurate in the diagnosis of torsion and ischemia in the painful scrotum.
(8) Physical examination revealed an elastic soft mass in the right inguinal region toward the right scrotum.
(9) In fact 4 boys had undergone surgical correction of a contralateral undescended testis at an earlier date at which time the testis in question could be manipulated into the scrotum.
(10) It was noted that the position of the right testis within the scrotum varied with the degree of inguinal herniation.
(11) Four patients are described who experienced an acute episode of eczematous dermatitis of the scrotum where 5-fluorouracil (Efudex) cream had inadvertently been applied in the course of treating warts and keratoses.
(12) Operations on the ureter decreased during the recent 5 year period and they were the fourth most frequent following those on the scrotum, scrotal contents and penis.
(13) Unicorn uterus, Fallopian tube and finbriae were observed, and a thumb-sized gonad with hemorrhage and fissure was also seen in the upper part of the scrotum.
(14) At puberty, his penis, scrotum, and testes matured normally, and he did not develop gynecomastia; however, his voice, muscularity, and facial, sexual, and body hair remained immature.
(15) We feel that this is an appropriate procedure to be used in patients who have lost the testicles and scrotum traumatically, either one or both testicles, or in the situation where both testicles have been spared.
(16) Surgical exploration of the scrotum in the other 2 revealed evidence of vasculitis in both and the possibility of torsion of appendix epididymis in 1.
(17) In retrospective study of 90 patients operated on for acute unilateral pains in scrotum region and its content--the so-called acute scrotum--during revision torsion of testis was found 48 times (53.3%), torsion of appendix testis 24 times (26.7%), acute epididymitis 17 times (18.9%) and testis tumour in one patient (1.1%).
(18) Fifty-one nodules were observed in the histopathologic examination, which revealed, in addition to the typical findings of idiopathic calcinosis of the scrotum, various forms of intact cysts: epidermal (some calcified), pilar (calcified), hybrid (calcified), and indeterminate cysts with diffusely calcified keratinous content and attenuated walls.
(19) The migration of the male gubernaculum into the scrotum to enable descent of the testis does not occur in females.
(20) Two patients with a necrotizing soft tissue infection of the scrotum and perineum are described.
Sternum
Definition:
(n.) A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.
(n.) The ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patient had experienced repeated spontaneous fractures for 1.5 years such as serial rib fractures, fractures of the sternum and most recently fracture of the neck of the femur after a minimal trauma.
(2) Specimens from the bone marrow taken were by trephine biopsy from the sternum, ala ossis ilii and spine.
(3) The resections included an average of three ribs (range, two to five) and, in seven cases, part or all of the sternum.
(4) Radiologically, the clavicles, the sternum and the first ribs are grossly enlarged with complete fusion between them.
(5) Upper thoracic fractures that involved the clavicles, scapula, sternum, and ribs were present in four patients.
(6) Abnormal radionuclide concentrations were observed in the sternoclavicular, sternocostal, and manubriosternal joints, in the ribs, and in the sternum.
(7) For the sternum, humerus and ilium-ischium, however, ossification in A2 fetuses increased to the levels observed in the PF and C groups.
(8) diastasis recti abdominis with pericardial hernia, ventral defect of the diaphragm, partial defect of the sternum, and tetralogy of Fallot.
(9) In the remaining seven patients, sternal and mediastinal debridement with rewiring of the sternum was successfully applied.
(10) Three patients had anatomical variants of the sternum.
(11) A unique feature of the AF-associated musculoskeletal syndrome is osteolytic lesions that occur most frequently in the clavicle, sternum, long bones, and ilium.
(12) In affected lambs, lesions were seen consistently in the elbows, shoulders, sternum, and spine.
(13) The sliding splint-staples, generally two, are placed in staggered positions behind the sternum (11 cases--funnel chest) or in front of the sternum (2 cases--pigeon chest).
(14) The microvascularization of the sternum of the child has been studied by a method of India ink injection and by histology.
(15) The indications for keeping sternum open were enlarged heart, myocardial edema, severe depression of myocardial contractility and reduced lung compliance due to pulmonary edema.
(16) forehead for 0-3 days, chest for 4-5 days, sternum for 6 days and later).
(17) Quiet inspiration before and after phrenicotomy was always associated with a caudal displacement of the sternum and a cranial displacement of the seventh rib; the second rib, however, was either motionless or also showed an inspiratory caudal displacement.
(18) The structure and morphology of the sternum from 33 West African dwarf (WAD) and sixteen Danish Landrace breed goats were studied radiographically.
(19) In five anesthetized and vagotomized dogs the sternum was split and the anterior right lung field exposed.
(20) The healing process in the longitudinally divided sternum was evaluated from the SPECT study.