What's the difference between stercorous and stertorous?
Stercorous
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A spontaneous stercoral fistula containing pinworms was observed in a patient, 35 years after an appendicectomy.
(2) Within 6 months, three constipated patients have been seen with stercoral perforation of the colon associated with the ingestion of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug medications (NSAIDs).
(3) Stercoral perforation of the colon is rare, and has not previously been reported as a postoperative complication, proximal to an end colostomy.
(4) Other causes of symptomless pneumoperitoneum include pneumatosis intestinalis, perforation in tabes dorsalis or coma, stercoral ulceration, physiological pneumoperitoneum in women due to exercise in the knee-elbow position, and vaginal douches with a bulb syringe or effervescent fluid.
(5) It is, therefore, suggested that intra-operative orthograde colonic lavage is indicated to protect a terminal colostomy from the risk of stercoral perforation in such cases.
(6) The feces of trypanosome-carrying reduviids are infective, suggesting a stercoreal method of infection of mammals, and infection was produced in experiments in which feeding by the insects was not possible.
(7) Stercoral perforation is often a consequence of chronic constipation.
(8) Definitions of spontaneous rupture and stercoral perforation of the colon are given, and the possible aetiological factors in and management of these rare cases are discussed.
(9) Stercoral perforations of the colon unassociated with obstructive lesions are rarely reported.
(10) Normal rate of post-operative complications was encountered: 2 subphrenic abscess, 1 pneumopathy, 1 stercoral peritonitis.
(11) Meanwhile, VFA production in the foregut (stomach and intestine) stopped, whereas it augmented in the hindgut; VFA enrichment of the caecocolonic and portal blood was greater when the rabbits were subjected to a stercoral fast.
(12) Moreover, complications of constipation such as fecal impaction, fecal incontinence, stercoral ulceration, and obstruction can be catastrophic in the debilitated elderly patient.
(13) There were three instances of colonic perforations, two associated with fecal impaction and stercoral ulceration and one with evidence of vasculitis.
(14) The stercoral fistula was clinically and radiologically proven in only one of the surgically treated patients and it healed without medicament therapy.
(15) Stercoral fasting did not diminish the quantity of VFA in the digestive tract.
(16) Macroscopically stercoral perforation origines from an ulcerative lesion often situated on the sigmoid colon or rectum.
(17) Stercoral perforation of the colon is a direct result of ischemic pressure necrosis by a stercoraceous mass.
(18) This typhlitis, or necrotizing enterocolitis involving the coecum and right colon resulted in stercoral peritonitis during the neutropenic phase.
(19) Anatomopathologically stercoral and idiopathic perforations present different characteristics.
(20) None of the patients suffered any known underlying disease of the affected bowel such as malignancy, diverticulosis, stercoral ulcer, colitis, or trauma.
Stertorous
Definition:
(a.) Characterized by a deep snoring, which accompaines inspiration in some diseases, especially apoplexy; hence, hoarsely breathing; snoring.
Example Sentences:
(1) The horses had stertorous breathing (n = 4) or intermittently sanguineous nasal discharge (n = 7).
(2) It had something to do with his stertorous, slightly nasal-breathy way of speaking: a vocal tic to compare with De Niro or Brando.
(3) Detailed review of medical records in a subset of 49 dogs with neoplasms of the nasal passage and paranasal sinuses revealed major clinical signs of nasal and ocular discharge, facial deformity, and stertorous breathing.