Pain in the abdomen, caused by the distension of its walls, may be relieved by the application of equal parts of sweet oil and laudanum.
In all cases, therefore, it is of importance to distinguish between over-distension (which may lead to inflammation) and a condition of already established gathering of the breasts.
My only excuse was that the patient at the time I saw him was in a very collapsed state, and a severe grade of abdominal distension suggested that septic peritonitis was already in an advanced stage.
Some general distension of abdomen with complete disappearance of hepatic dulness.
As is usually the case, both respiration and the heart's action were most embarrassed in the cases in which abdominal distension was a prominent feature.
The distension was accompanied by most persistent vomiting, continuing for days, and in the cases that lived for some time severe gastric crises of the same type occurred in some instances.
In cases of low dorsal injury intestinal distension was extreme, and I think more troublesome than the same condition as seen in civil practice.
There is somedistension of the abdomen, but no accumulation of gas.
As the distension and pain occur immediately after the animal has drunk the water, there can be no doubt as to the exciting cause.
The distension of the whole mass exerts an immense force, tending to propel the glacier in the direction of least resistance--"in other words, down the valley.
From hence I conclude that with the acquisition of new parts, new sensations and new desires, as well as new powers are produced; and this by accretion to the old ones and not by distension of them.
He spoke pompously and theatrically; called himself the Eye of Italy, and said that he must be in Milan, or Milan would perish, because of the traitress: all with a great sullen air of composure and an odd distension of the eyelids.
As the distension of the belly had been very great, a swathe was applied, and drawn gradually tighter as the water was evacuated.
It presently reduced the anasarcous swellings, but made no alteration in the distension of the abdomen.
In either case the oiled hand, passed inward by the side of the foal, will detect the enormous distension of the abdomen and its soft, fluctuating contents.
Between the second and fourth days this sound may disappear, due to a distension of the pericardium by an exudate or serous effusion.
Roman glass, in which the upper distension is useful if the liquid contains a sediment which it is not desirable to pour out with the liquid.
In these, the distension of the prepuce and the resulting balano-posthitis is at times a source of great distress, and at times the resulting engorgement produces a retention of urine.
In horses, a distension of the bursa or sheath of the true hock joint.
Marked by constipation, and the irregular distension of the bowels by gas, accompanied by a rumbling noise, &c.
In this way hydronephrosis, or distension of the kidney with urine, may be produced.
Acute synovitis of a joint leads to heat of the parts, pain, distension of the capsule, and, where the joint may be easily felt, fluctuation.
It is doubtless for the same reason that, as some women have found, more distension of the bladder is possible without corsets than with them.
At the same time the spasmodic pressure on the surface of the eye, and the distension of the vessels within the eye, without necessarily entailing any conscious sensation, will have affected, through reflex action, the lacrymal glands.
The distension of the nostrils is not for the sake of scenting the source of danger, for when a horse smells carefully at any object and is not alarmed, he does not dilate his nostrils.
Temporary over-distension or dilatation of the cavities of the heart occurs in violent and protracted exertion, but rapidly subsides and is in no wise harmful to the sound and vigorous heart of the young.
This consists in the application of leeches to any vascular part of the body, for the purpose of withdrawing blood from it, and thus allaying local inflammation, distension of vessels, &c.
When no distension from inside takes place, the result is considered satisfactory, and the vessels are regarded as properly and hermetically sealed.
The quadrate and the maxillary and palatopterygoid arches are more or less movable to allow for the distension required by the passage of prey, often much exceeding the calibre of the mouth.
Most snakes have a longitudinal groove on the chin (mental groove) to allow for the distension caused by the lateral movements of the rami of the lower jaw.
I have always found, in my own case, that Night-Mare was accompanied with distension of the stomach and bowels by flatus, constipation, and acid eructations.
A few moments later, however, the child began to complain of a feeling of distension in the region of the bite, caused by œdema, which soon increased to an alarming extent.
The latter is formed by the distension of the sheath under the pressure of the secreted liquid.
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