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  • Distension (redirect from Distended)
    Look up distension in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Distension (spelled distention in many style regimens) generally refers to an enlargement, dilation...
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  • Gastric distention is the enlargement of the stomach, and can be due to a number of causes.[citation needed] Physiologic (normal) gastric distension occurs...
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    Cytolethal distending toxins (abbreviated CDTs) are a class of heterotrimeric toxins produced by certain gram-negative bacteria that display DNase activity...
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  • Thumbnail for Jugular venous pressure
    The jugular venous pressure (JVP, sometimes referred to as jugular venous pulse) is the indirectly observed pressure over the venous system via visualization...
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    The capacitor plague was a problem related to a higher-than-expected failure rate of non-solid aluminium electrolytic capacitors between 1999 and 2007...
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    there may not be actual abdominal distension. Abdominal distension (or "distended abdomen") can be a sign of many other conditions, including: Ascites Capillaria...
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  • Bladder outlet obstruction (or obstructive uropathy) occurs when urine is unable to flow from the kidneys through the ureters and out of the bladder through...
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    gr.3/4 [grains] and shortly afterwards cocaine gr.1 [grains] into the distended jugular vein ... In about 1/4 an hour – breathing quieter – appearance...
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    air sac or sacs in the throat or at the corner of the mouth. This may distend like a balloon and acts as a resonator, helping to transfer the sound to...
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  • Compliance is the ability of a hollow organ (vessel) to distend and increase volume with increasing transmural pressure or the tendency of a hollow organ...
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    epithelial lining of most organs, transitional epithelium can flatten and distend. Urothelium covers most of the urinary system, including the renal pelvis...
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    its ability to pump blood. The signs are low arterial blood pressure, distended neck veins, and distant, muffled heart sounds. Narrowed pulse pressure...
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    Ischial tuberosity Capsule of hip-joint (distended). Posterior aspect. (Ischial tuberosity visible at bottom left.) Details Identifiers Latin tuber ischiadicum...
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  • fail to elicit tenderness (silent appendix). This is because the cecum, distended with gas, protects the inflamed appendix from pressure. Similarly, if...
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    capacity to lay eggs. In some species, the mature queen has a greatly distended abdomen and may produce 40,000 eggs a day. The two mature ovaries may...
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    crab given by the lateral prolongations of the tumor and the adjacent distended veins".: 738  Celsus (c. 25 BC – 50 AD) translated karkinos into the Latin...
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    when the tissue is relaxed, or stratified squamous when the organ is distended and the tissue stretches. It is sometimes called urothelium since it is...
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    pneumothorax Pulmonary embolus Abdomen Distended and dull Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm Ruptured ectopic pregnancy Distended and tympanic Esophageal intubation...
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  • Thumbnail for Caput medusae
    Caput medusae is the appearance of distended and engorged superficial epigastric veins, which are seen radiating from the umbilicus across the abdomen...
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    movements, general redness and warm to touch feel of the body, prominent, distended and tense vessels, fullness of the pulse, distension of the skin, coloured...
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