(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.
Uterus
Definition:
(n.) The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb.
(n.) A receptacle, or pouch, connected with the oviducts of many invertebrates in which the eggs are retained until they hatch or until the embryos develop more or less. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Append.
Example Sentences:
(1) In these bitches, a strain of E coli identical to the strain in the infected uterus was isolated.
(2) The combination of an over-distended uterus caused by a multiple-fetus pregnancy with therapeutic bed-rest may cause mechanical ileus.
(3) There was no significant difference in sialic acid concentration in the uterus during the proliferative and luteal phases of the menstrual cycle.
(4) In this study 470 bitches were inseminated; 405 with fresh semen into the cranial vagina and 65 with frozen semen transcervically into the uterus.
(5) The clinical and pathological features of a patient with giant cell arteritis of the uterus and ovaries are described.
(6) If deaths from ruptured uterus are to be avoided, early diagnosis is essential.
(7) In vivo administration of anti-EGF antibody or anti-TGF-alpha antibody significantly reduced estrogen-induced labelling index in castrated mouse uterus.
(8) The cAMP-dependent protein kinase (ATP:protein phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.37), has been studied in the vaginal epithelium, vaginal stroma, endometrium, and whole uterus of spayed mice treated with oestradiol-17 beta, and in the vaginal epithelium and uterus of spayed mice.
(9) We report two cases of leiomyomas of the uterus with a deletion of the long arm of chromosome 13.
(10) Likewise, [3H]estradiol-receptor complexes from rabbit uterus, Squalus oviduct, or mouse testis bound minimally to Squalus testicular chromatin.
(11) We have studied the postnatal ontogeny of creatine kinase (CK) and the glycolytic enzymes phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK), phosphoglycerate mutase (PGM), enolase (En), and pyruvate kinase (PK) in rat brain and uterus.
(12) Compared with anteverted (N = 243) or axial (N = 149) locations, the retroverted uterus (N = 66) was associated with a lower mean sample weight per aspiration (22, 18, and 15 mg, respectively; P less than .01) and a greater frequency of multiple-pass procedures (23, 31, and 52%, respectively; P less than .0001).
(13) These plasmin-cleaved peptides are derived from the COOH terminus of C2b, and they induce the contraction of estrous rat uterus.
(14) After resuscitation a laparotomy disclosed an anterior paramedian laceration of the uterus.
(15) Tuberculosis of the cervix of the uterus is a rare form of genital tuberculosis.
(16) In addition, there were 117 hemorrhages (.98% of the cases reported), 22 burns or mechanical injuries of the gastrointestinal tract (.19%), 26 perforations of the uterus (.22%), 44 infections (.37%), 25 skin burns (.21%), and 24 cases of skin or organ emphysema (.2%).
(17) Ruptured uterus is considered as a cause of postpartum hemorrhage, with an incidence of 7.1% overall and 11.9% in patients with severe hemorrhage.
(18) After intrauterine inoculation E. coli was isolated from the uterus up to 30 days, and sporadically from the kidneys and urinary bladder, but not from the liver.
(19) An electromagnetic flow sensor was placed around the middle uterine artery and electromyogram electrodes were attached to the uterus.
(20) LSN lesions in hypophysectomized rats have no effect on the ovary and uterus weights as compared to hypophysectomized ones, but decrease the size of mature ovarian follicles against a background of hypophysectomy or LSN lesions.