(v. t.) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
(v. i.) To stint; to stop; to cease.
(n.) An allotted portion; a stint.
Example Sentences:
(1) During placement of the Fletcher suit one of the ureters is catheterized by a special stent which appears on the X-rays control used for dosimetry.
(2) In one patient with a B-II stomach, the stent could only be inserted by the percutaneous transhepatic route.
(3) There were no cases of stent migration or occlusion due to encrustation of bile.
(4) Veryan has developed a stent – a metal mesh tube inserted in an artery – that mimics the natural swirl of the blood flow, which researchers have found improves outcomes for patients with circulation problems.
(5) The insertion of stent was succeeded in all 4 cases, and the improvement of clinical symptoms and elevation of ankle pressure index were observed.
(6) Nine patients had variably significant ductal changes attributable to pancreatic duct stents.
(7) Titanium-nickel alloy composed of 50% by weight of each metal has unique thermal shape-memory properties, with a transition temperature of 20 degrees C. Each stent consists of one wire with a diameter of 0.9 mm.
(8) Between June 1988 and July 1991, 464 new device interventions (Palmaz-Schatz stent or Simpson directional atherectomy) were performed in 410 patients.
(9) The stent was applied without general anesthesia under mild i.v.
(10) Clogging of endoscopic stents necessitates their replacement in many patients with malignant obstructive jaundice and limits their use in benign strictures.
(11) The stents were inserted by using a 10-12 Fr catheter.
(12) Intravascular stenting has been established as a useful treatment in adults with coronary and peripheral vascular disease.
(13) A variety of interventional endovascular instruments have been produced and used in a wide field of pathologies: balloons for proximal clamping, distal embolization by particles, arterial desobstruction by seeking devices, propping of vascular lumen by stenting, in situ infusion of drugs (fibrinolysis), filters, foreign body retrieval systems.
(14) In spite of the low complication rate, the advisability of clinical application of stents should always be critically considered before the final decision is made.
(15) Additionally, there is promise that stents will enhance the percutaneous treatment of renal artery ostial lesions, infrainguinal arterial lesions, and strictures in large veins.
(16) The average period of follow-up is 65 days, the longest 105 days (silicone stents) respectively 306 days (metallic stents).
(17) We believe that treatment of tracheal stenosis using dilation with stents is a reasonably good alternative in patients whose general condition makes them poor risks for major tracheal surgery.
(18) Treatment by either antegrade placement of ureteral stents or abdominal exploration with deligation or ureteroneocystotomy was successful in all cases.
(19) Antibiotic suppression and stent changes should not be used routinely but rather they should be individualized.
(20) An expandable metal stent inserted via a long term tracheostomy successfully relieved life threatening respiratory obstruction due to benign tracheal stenosis.
Ureter
Definition:
(n.) The duct which conveys the urine from the kidney to the bladder or cloaca. There are two ureters, one for each kidney.
Example Sentences:
(1) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
(2) Animals in Groups 2 and 3 underwent exposure and manipulation of the right ureter.
(3) During placement of the Fletcher suit one of the ureters is catheterized by a special stent which appears on the X-rays control used for dosimetry.
(4) Regarding ureters read as true positives on indirect study, if that ureter has ever shown reflux at any time, or if it drained a scarred kidney specificity was improved to 97% without changing the sensitivity.
(5) Excretory urogram revealed bilateral hydronephrosis and voiding cystogram revealed VUR on left ureter.
(6) One is the ureteral peristaltic contraction which plays a principal role in urinary bolus transport at low flows; the other is ureteral wall tonus, which plays an important role in the transport of columns of urine by the ureter, which does not coapt its walls, at the higher flow rates.
(7) A 68-year-old female patient was admitted for the examination of duplication of right ureter and right hydronephrosis.
(8) A significant number of ureters with ectopic insertion occur in the single (nonduplex) collecting system.
(9) At operation a patent left umbilical artery was partially obstructing the distal left ureter.
(10) Based on a limited experience we have found that triangular flap ureteroplasty is a worthwhile means of repeat reimplantation of the obstructed ureter and perhaps provides a better alternative than transureteroureterostomy.
(11) The ureter was connected to the epididymis of the testicle.
(12) The urinary bladder of 10 clinically normal dogs was excised and the ureters were implanted into an isolated, vagotomized gastric segment derived from the fundic region of the stomach.
(13) He had undergone pelvic exenteration with the ureterostomy for rectal cancer invading the bladder five months previously and retrograde ureteric catheters were inserted bilaterally into the ureters.
(14) Both methods have a place if diversion is necessary in cases of severe hydronephrosis and decompensated ureters.
(15) Rectal examination showed that both kidneys and ureters were enlarged.
(16) The CGRP also inhibited the NKA- and NPK-induced contractions of the ureter in vitro.
(17) That is, be partial and permanent, produced in fetal or newborn animals, preferably be moderate in degree, the diameter should grow in pace with the growing ureter, and be followed for a long period.
(18) The reservoir is made up using 40 cm of detubulized ileum; on the afferent loop (10 cm long) the right ureter is implanted according to the Camey-Le Duc technique, on the efferent loop (25 cm long) the left ureter is implanted according to the same technique.
(19) We present a rare case of primary amyloidosis involving the ureter and renal pelvis.
(20) To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a small cell carcinoma originating in the ureter in Japan.