Rupture or even over-distention of a bronchus or of the thoracic esophagus is almost invariably fatal.
While the esophagus is usually dilated, the stomach on the other hand is often contracted, largely from lack of distention by food, but possibly also because of a spastic state due to the same causes as the phrenospasm.
The chief use of loosening medicines is in convulsions and cramps, and such like infirmities which cause distention or stretching.
A distention or stretching of a part by too much fulness.
Even in otherwise healthy women, various achy feelings of distention are often felt in the neighborhood of the ovaries, but these would scarcely be described as pain, unless the patient is over-sensitive.
This seems to be due to the distentionof the stomach, either by gas or by liquid.
The distention of the stomach with gas is said to be a mechanical reason for interference with the heart action.
Especially can this reassurance be given if the angina occurs in connection with distention of the stomach or in association with gastric symptoms of any kind.
There seemed even to be some distention of the abdomen after a time and the development of greatly increased diffuse tenderness.
They are used to having their contents emptied and distention is followed by rather ready evacuation.
In many cases the distention of the stomach by a heavy meal, especially if the heart has been rendered sensitive by the taking of stimulants, will have the same effect.
It is due to a delay in passing on the food and to stomach distention because the gastric muscle is not in good tone.
They should be counselled against lying on the left side, though in some of them it will occur even while lying on the right side and then the mechanism of its production seems to be the gaseous over-distention of the stomach.
A few sensitive individuals are annoyed by a sense of weight and a feeling of distention from congestion in connection with it.
Excoriations, bruises, and rents in the lower part of the womb are often occasioned by the violent distention and separation of the caruncles in a woman's labour.
It is easy to see that if a curved wire is pulled straight, there must occur a distention of the particles on the inside of the curve and a compression of those on the outside.
The superior ductility of iron wire in some measure compensates for the distention of the particles on the inside of the curve, and that is a reason why it has heretofore been used for suspension bridges.
As illustrative of the amount of paralytic distention that is possible, Bamberger mentions a case in which 70 pounds of fluid filled the stomach.
Hirst, in an article on the difficulties in the diagnosis of pregnancy, gives several excellent photographs showing the close resemblance between several pathologic conditions and the normal distention of the abdomen in pregnancy.
There are a few cases on record in which the bladder has been ruptured by distentionfrom the accumulation of urine, but the accident is a rare one, the urethra generally giving way first.
Some cases are of purely nervous origin, associated with a purely muscular distention of the abdomen.
After death, the distention of the abdomen was found to be due to a coating of fat, four inches thick, in the parietes.
Watson, it is capable of distention to a certain extent.
Then it was accused of eating to such a pitch of distention that it had to squeeze itself between two close-growing trees for relief ere it returned again to the repast.
Distention of the seminal vesicles with a superabundance of seminal fluid also acts as a source of irritation.
Its structure is cellular, and it contains a vast number of minute coils of blood-vessels which become turgid with blood under the influence of sexual excitement, producing distention and erection of the organ.
The distention of the bowels was a constant interference.
The full force of the peristaltic waves from the small intestine with its onrush of fluid or semifluid contents subjects the cecum to great distention and strain.
This is a characteristic symptom when there is great distention of the bowels.
Pain upon urination and strangury was due to inflammation of the peritoneal coat of the bladder, in which a noticeable irritation was produced by slight distention as well as by contraction of the bladder.
All cases that I have ever seen with great bowel distention are those coming into my care after being subjected to the usual feeding and medicating.
How could a rupture into a distended gut close, The distention was greater after the rupture than before.
Distention of the abdomen and the area of diffuse resistance increased; sensitiveness to touch appeared to be dulled by the opium; in the ileo-cecal region, however, it was constantly severe and lancinating.
Owing to the copious secretion of urine which is so common at this time, painful and injurious distention of the bladder may result.
It is characterized by a distention of the skin with air or gas contained in the subcutaneous areolar tissue.
This suggested the full distention of the udder with common atmospheric air filtered and sterilized, and this with the most perfect success.
Tympanites is a distention of the rumen or paunch with gases of fermentation, and is manifested outwardly by swelling in the region of the left flank.
A similar full distention of the bag with a common-salt solution (0.
If the distention is not sufficient to have rendered the bony walls of the cranium thin and fragile, so that they can be compressed with the hand after puncture, a special method may be necessary.
The cause of this disordered state of the digestive system in cattle is usually obscure, but has in some cases been traced to a partial closure of the opening into the second stomach or to a distention of the esophagus.
This distention acts like magic, and seems hardly to admit of failure in securing a successful outcome.
In all cases, but especially in severe ones, it is well to keep watch of the patient, and to repeat the distention on the first indication of relapse.
With the injection of gases, however, a fuller distention of the udder was usually secured, and virtually every case recovered.
In America the full distentionof the udder, whether with oxygen or filtered air, has proved invariably successful in all kinds of cases, including the violent ones that set in within a few hours after calving.
The distention of the stomach may become so great as to prevent the animal from breathing, and in some instances the case may be complicated by rupture of the stomach.
Incontinence of Urine, as already observed, is a common result of distention of the bladder and of stricture.
Such is not the case, as will afterwards be explained, when solution of continuity in the urethra, or of the cyst of an abscess, takes place in consequence of distention of the bladder.
The tumour was mistaken for distention of the bladder, and a long trocar was plunged in above the pubes without a drop of urine escaping.
When the distention is great, this important muscle is displaced; it is pushed downwards, carrying before it the viscera in the upper part of the abdomen; it is thus removed far from the place at which the incision is usually made.
The enlargement, even in its early stage, is tense and painful; being attended with distention of the superficial veins, swelling of the surrounding structures, and slight discoloration of the skin.
An over-distention of a particular set of vessels may certainly exist (as a consequence of inflammation, or altogether unconnected with it), unattended with inflammatory action.
Ranula is a swelling produced by accumulation in, and distention of, the extremity of the combined ducts of the sublingual and submaxillary glands.
The bougie should be smooth in the surface, and rounded at the point; also slightly curved, so as to suit the figure of the bowel; and with a narrow neck, so as to remain without the irritation caused by distention of the sphincter.
There is a temptation always to continue the habitual distention of the stomach by the use of too much fruit at first.
Defn: A flatulent distentionof the belly; tympanites.
Bog spavin, a soft swelling produced by distentionof the capsular ligament of the hock; -- called also blood spavin.
Defn: A flatulent distention of the belly; tympany.
Defn: A distention of the scrotum by air; also, hernia of the lungs.
This produces a distention of the breasts, causing what is known as "caked breasts," or "milk cake.
The breast-pump should be used as soon as any distention becomes painful, and the breasts should be diligently rubbed with warm sweet-oil.
And the pain from punctures or incisions arises from the distention of the fibres, as the knife passes through them; for it nearly ceases as soon as the division is completed.
The periods of evacuating the bowels are generally connected with some part of the solar day, as well as with the acrimony or distention occasioned by the feces.
When the distention is great, the blood is prevented from circulating in the vessels of the rumen, and is determined to the head.
The approach of the period of farrowing is marked by the immense size of the belly, by a depression of the back, and by the distention of the teats.
The painful feeling will be induced by distention of the stomach, by anxiety, and by the restraint given to the movements of the diaphragm.
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