(n.) The canal by which the urine is conducted from the bladder and discharged.
Example Sentences:
(1) In one of them, who sustained a complete membranous disruption 5 weeks ago, transluminal puncture failed because of the movable proximal urethra.
(2) In 36 patients plastic reconstruction of the urinary bladder, sphincter and urethra was performed with local tissues after the Young technic in the G. A. Bairov modification.
(3) Manual compression of the bladder elicited urine leakage from the urethra, and the urethral closure pressure was markedly low.
(4) The acrosin inhibitors are localized in the mucosa cells of the cauda epididymis, the vas deferens, the seminal vesicles, the urethra and distinct glandular units of the prostate.
(5) During unstable detrusor contractions, which even in these healthy women are observed during bladder filling and also during inhibited voidings through the urethra, the contraction is weaker.
(6) We concluded that this case was incidentally successful with good regeneration of urethral mucosa of the anterior urethra by grafting a polytetrafluoroethylene tube.
(7) All the examinees showed no organic changes in the prostate and urethra.
(8) The results are not simply explained by postulating electrically induced closure of the urethra.
(9) Spinning top urethra (STU) is a term used to describe a widened posterior urethra seen mainly in girls.
(10) The dysfunction is due partly to direct trauma of the bladder and urethra.
(11) The two halves of the glans are brought to the midline, thus covering the glanular urethra, and producing a normal appearing glans.
(12) The relaxation effects of prazosin and bunazosin on the distal urethra was weaker than on the proximal urethra.
(13) The majority were investigated at the bedside by taking films and cultures from the cervix and urethra.
(14) After rhizotomy, noradrenaline content in the proximal urethra was significantly increased but there was no change in sensitivity to sympathetic stimulation.
(15) Partial resection of anterior urethra including tumor was performed on December 20, 1983.
(16) This surgical procedure involves removing the penile urethra and creating a permanent stoma between the skin and pelvic urethra.
(17) In 20-35 per cent of short (up to 05 cm) urethral stenosis or cicatricial obliterations of urethra it was found advisable to start the treatment with nonoperative technique.
(18) The sphincter urethrae muscle is located inside the sling of the puborectalis muscle in both sexes, but no muscle fibres connect them to one another.
(19) The complication rate was astonishingly low during IUSC: being only 4.3% (2 male patients, one with stricture of the urethra and epididymitis, one with autonomous dysreflexia with bladder overdistension).
(20) The results appear to offer pharmacological evidence for the recently evolving intricate innervation pattern of the urethra including its distal portion, where the alpha-adrenergic system is believed to be important.
Urethritis
Definition:
(n.) Inflammation of the urethra.
Example Sentences:
(1) A total of 104 evaluable patients 20-90 years old treated by direct vision internal urethrotomy a.m. Sachse for urethral strictures reported retrospectively via a questionnaire their sexual potency before and after internal urethrotomy.
(2) From the treatment group 23 patients could be assessed: 2 had discontinued clean intermittent self-catheterization due to urethral hemorrhage, 2 died during the observation period and 1 was lost to followup.
(3) Among the agents triggering such an infection Chlamydia (30.9% of the cases of non-gonorrhoic urethritis), as well as mycoplasma, ureaplasma, anaerobic bacteria and herpes simplex viruses have gained particular significance.
(4) It is suggested that contractile responses to electrical stimulation in isolated sheep urethral smooth muscle are mediated by the sympathetic nervous system, mainly through release of noradrenaline stimulating postjunctional alpha 1-adrenoceptors.
(5) Fifteen SCI patients underwent a total of 224 ultrasonic bladder volume determinations and 57 urethral catheterizations.
(6) Since gentamicin and kanamycin have proved to be effective, they are now recommended for the treatment of gonococcal urethritis in Zambia.
(7) Two hundred fifty-one cervical and 209 male urethral specimens from three Richmond health clinics were read by direct immunofluorescence staining and compared with cell culture technics using iodine staining.
(8) Cats with urethral obstruction due to naturally occurring disease, feline urological syndrome (FUS), had markedly lower urine Mg concentrations than cats fed high Mg diets.
(9) Manual compression of the bladder elicited urine leakage from the urethra, and the urethral closure pressure was markedly low.
(10) We present our experience with the self-expanding urethral endoprosthesis Wallstent for the treatment of recurrent posterior urethral strictures.
(11) Stress continence depends upon three factors: proximal urethral support, vesical neck closure, and urethral contractility.
(12) It is important to pay attention to the outcome of this study in (postgraduate) education for general practitioners, as they treat the vast majority of urethritis patients.
(13) Lack of circumcision, past history of GUD and urethritis were significantly associated with HIV seroconversion.
(14) We concluded that this case was incidentally successful with good regeneration of urethral mucosa of the anterior urethra by grafting a polytetrafluoroethylene tube.
(15) The patient had associated congenital abnormalities of urethral stricture, hypoplastic thumb, and absent radial pulse.
(16) A search of the medical records from 1940 to 1975 at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco and Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley has revealed only 3 cases of carcinoma within a urethral diverticulum.
(17) Major small operations and examinations for outpatients were transperineal prostatic needle biopsies, transurethral urethral and bladder mucosal biopsies, phimotomy, transurethral intravesical surgery and percutaneous renal cyst puncture.
(18) Calcium or uric acid urethral lithiasis was the main cause of obstruction in the benign group.
(19) Thirty-four children, ten of them coming from another Surgical Center, underwent repair for urethral fistula after hypospadias reconstructive surgery, over a period of three years (1985-1987).
(20) Euthanasia was done before the end of the 10-day experimental period if the cats had two bouts of urethral obstruction or if the cats became uremic for causes unrelated to urethral obstruction.