The symptoms consist of digestive disturbances, associated with emaciation and various symptoms suggesting lesions in the nervous system, central or peripheral.
The liver has been found cirrhotic, and at times shows tubercular lesions of a secondary nature.
The post-mortem lesions in these cases were marked congestion, with hemorrhages in the stomach walls and a secretion of thick mucus.
Similar symptoms and lesions were found in a lamb 4 months old which was given per os 6.
Certain lesions of secretion will also be specially referred to under the heading of Diagnosis.
The lesions of taste and smell disappeared exactly pari passua with the trigeminal pains.
Vaso-motor palsy undoubtedly is very often present, in fact every attack of neuralgia of a certain severity is thus complicated; and there is no reason to doubt that this paralysis could be caused by lesions within the medulla.
Does it seem funny to talk of adjusting lesions on one person for an hour at a time, three times a week?
The meningococcus and the virus of poliomyelitis pass from the nose into the cranial cavity without locallesions in the former.
In foot-and-mouth disease no visible lesions seem necessary to permit the localization of the unknown infective agent.
The lesionsare so slight as in many cases to be entirely overlooked by the ordinary butcher.
This does not mean, of course, that those parts of the body affected by the tuberculosis lesions shall be used, but, since these lesions are usually segregated, they can readily be cut out without reference to the rest of the body.
It can only be said, therefore, that laboratory experiments have demonstrated the presence of the tuberculosis bacillus in milk from tubercular cows, and that this bacillus is known to produce tubercular lesions in man.
This really means that an animal only slightly affected with tuberculosis, where the lesions are slight and are confined to the tissues of certain organs only, may be used for food.
All other carcasses affected with tuberculosis shall be condemned, except those in which the lesions are slight, calcified, or encapsulated, and are confined to certain tissues .
It is to Laennec's introduction of auscultation that modern medicine owes all its exacter knowledge of heart lesions and their {148} significance.
Respecting the lesions of bovine tuberculosis, it will be sufficient to say that nothing is more variable than the localisation or form of its attacks.
In recent lesions the protoplasm appears more homogeneous, and takes on the segmented or beaded character only in old lesions, pus, or sputum.
That inflammatory lesions are often the principal cause of the uterine displacements through the enlargement and increased weight of the womb, or a portion of its tissues, which they occasion.
Lesions of the gums, and the oral mucous membrane, and the throat were observed.
In addition, lesions consisting of retinal hemorrhage and exudation were observed and 75% of the patients showing them had other signs of radiation injury.
Except for minor differences, the lesions were identical.
Besides the respiratory oppression, some patients develop urticarial lesions and occasionally even conjunctivitis and a catarrhal condition of the nasal mucous membrane.
When associated with definite lesions it is the prognosis of the special condition and not any supposed significance of this particular symptom of tremor that expresses the genuine outlook in the case.
The lesions produced in the extreme expulsive efforts of the paroxysm form favorable niduses for the micro-organism.
His studies included organic degenerations of other organs, and in his treatise on "Diseases of the Old" it is made clear that many of the symptoms of old age are due to organic lesions for which no cure can ever be expected.
Whether these bile symptoms are due to the occurrence of actual urticarial lesions in the bile duct, or so close to the papilla of entrance of the gall passages into the intestine as to occlude it, is doubtful.
If there are not active lesions then there are always healed lesions of tuberculosis in the body of almost every human being who has passed the age of thirty.
Once the presence of these serious organic lesions of the stomach can be {255} excluded, the bringing of influence to bear on the patient's mind for the improvement of his digestion is indicated.
At times these lesions are latent except for certain vague digestive symptoms.
Where skin lesions are atypical it is well to bear in mind the possibility of this curious condition.
From the standpoint of psychotherapy it is important to remember that certain serious organiclesions may show their first signs in the patient's mental state.
It used to be said that this was characteristic of the organic lesions causing true angina pectoris.
The lesions are likely to be indolent until the state of mind with regard to them is relieved by reassurance as to their comparatively innocuous character.
Some of these lesions of the intestinal tract related to urticaria may affect, either primarily or secondarily, the biliary structures.
They also began to pay attention to the bony lesionsother than those occurring in the spine.
In justice to the osteopaths it must be said that we are not referring to those chronic diseases which are directly caused by lesions of the spine or other bony structures.
In most cases, the existing spinal lesions are themselves the result of other primary disease conditions which must be removed before the bony lesions will remain corrected.
Mechanical lesions of that kind (and there are many of them) require mechanical treatment.
Manipulative treatment adjusts the lesions of the spine and other bony structures, thus removing abnormal pressure upon the nerves and blood vessels and establishing a free and abundant flow of nerve and blood currents.
Lesions may appear on the current year's shoots and later form dead sunken areas that are oval to irregularly circular with reddish brown margins.
Septoria usually begins around July and unlike anthracnose has more angular lesions that are between the veins.
Very rarely tuberculous lesionshave been observed in the bones and muscles of the body.
Adherent brownish crusts and scabs form over the parts, and similar lesionsare seen around the nostrils and external surface of the lips.
In necrotic stomatitis (calf diphtheria) there is a formation of yellowish cheesy patches in the mouth without any lesions of the feet or udder.
When the blisters have ruptured, however, and the resulting lesions have become contaminated by numerous secondary forms of microorganisms, the correct recognition of the disease may be involved in considerable difficulty.
In pigs, sheep, and goats the lesions in the foot are most common, but both forms may be observed or only the mouth lesions.
These are cases that occasionally present the pulmonary and intestinal symptoms, and sometimes develop also caseo-necrotic lesions in the liver.
The disease was first studied in 1895 by Johne and Frothingham in Dresden, but they were inclined to attribute to the avian tubercle bacillus the cause of the peculiar lesions of enteritis which they observed.
Cysts formed by the softening and disintegration of lesions Softening cysts.
Smith mentioned also certain morphological and cultural differences in bacilli from these two sources, and in the location and histology of the lesions in cattle produced by such bacilli.
The use of sodium salicylate in chronic rheumatism is not advisable on account of the danger of depressing the heart, whose action is already somewhat impaired by the lesions which have attacked it.
The lesions of the feet should be treated with a 2 per cent solution of carbolic acid, while the fissures and other lesions of the skin will be benefited by the application of carbolized vaseline or zinc ointment.
Its local lesions are a scanty eruption of spots, resembling flea bites, on the belly, enlargement of the spleen, and ulceration of the intestines over the areas occupied by Peyer's glands.
The act or process of repairing lesions made by ulcers, especially by a plastic operation.
Creeping; -- said of lesionswhich heal over one portion while continuing to advance at another.
Three women, cured of lesions in the lungs, expressed their delight at going back to work and to a normal life.
The feeling of oppression will disappear with the lesions which will disappear when you assimilate properly; that will come all in good time, but you mustn't put the cart before the horse .
Further, if there should be any lesions in any of these organs, they will get better from day to day and will soon be entirely healed.
A very irritable heart results not infrequently from cigarette smoking but such is almost always found in young men in whom the lesions of arteriosclerosis are exceedingly rare.
I have been unable to produce the slightest arterial lesions in rabbits by intravenous injections of lead.
It is after all in the arterioles and smaller arteries that the lesions of arteriosclerosis do the most damage.
In the late stages of syphilis the arterial lesions may be of a diffuse character.
Simple atheroma must not be confused with the lesions of arteriosclerosis.
It is, however, probable that arteriosclerosis is not the cause of any of the cases of heart block directly, but it is only a result of the same etiological conditions which produce the lesion or lesions which result in heart block.
It is held by some that high blood pressure favors hemorrhage and probably explains the hemorrhagiclesions in the placenta and some viscera in eclampsia and albuminuria.
Of interest here is the fact that besides gummata, ulcers, and other lesions of the bundle, definite arteriosclerotic changes have been found.
Focal degenerative lesions are, however, found in the abdominal aorta.
The lesionsof the arteriosclerotic kidney are due to narrowing and eventual obstruction of the afferent vessels.
One gets the impression that the small sclerotic lesions are the result of anemia and gradual replacement of scattered glomeruli by fibrous tissue.
He succeeded, also, in producing lesions of the intima in a dog fed for a long time on protein poor diet, plus lactic acid and sodium lactate.
Possibly syphilitic arteritis may be viewed as an entity, the cause is known and the lesions are characteristic.
But even in these accidents, though appearing to be simple flesh wounds, serious cerebral concussion and other lesions are occasionally met with.
Little remains to be added to the account of inflammatory lesions in connexion with the small intestine.
The functions of the various parts of the system in whose lesions we are here interested are many in number, and can only be summarized here.
Apart from those organisms associated with acute infective diseases, disturbances of function and physical lesions may be the result of abnormal bacterial activity in the canal; and these disturbances may be both local and general.
These two forms of lesions are usually co-existent, one generally being more extensive than the other.
While physiology treats of all the natural functions, pathology treats of lesionsand altered conditions.
In every considerable inflammation there is sympathetic fever, but in essential fevers there are generally fewer lesions of structure than in inflammation.
The hypertrophy from valvular lesions goes on increasing until it reaches a certain stage, when dilatation commences, the two conditions then being associated.
When sleep is natural, the insane are in a fair way to recovery, the sick become convalescent, ulcers granulate, and lesions are made whole.
The ulceration may be superficial or deep in character, and involve several or all of the lesions forming the group.
Urticaria papulosa (formerly called lichen urticatus) is a variety in which the lesions are small and papular, developing usually out of the ordinary wheals.
The lesions are superficially seated, usually between the horny layer and upper part of the rete.
The lesions are usually limited to the extensor surfaces of the thighs and arms, especially the former.
Vesicles are often intermingled, developing from erythematous and erythemato-papular lesions or arising from apparently normal skin.
Some of the acne lesions may be tender and painful, and at times there is a feeling of heat and burning.
It is similar in its clinical characters to the vesicular type, except that the lesions are pustular.
The lesions tend to increase in size and intensity, remain stationary for several days or a week, and then gradually fade; during this time there may have been outbreaks of new lesions.
It consists of small or large pea-sized, disseminated or grouped, acuminated or rounded pustules, resembling the lesions of acne and variola.
It resembles urticaria at times, but the lesions of this latter disease are evanescent, disappearing and reappearing usually in the most capricious manner, are commonly seated about the trunk, and are exceedingly itchy.
New lesions arise from time to time, and the disease thus continues almost indefinitely.
When the lesions constituting the eruption are so closely crowded that a solid sheet results.
The lesions are more or less numerous, usually become confluent, especially about the folds of the neck, about the genitalia and buttocks; in these regions resembling somewhat erythema intertrigo.
The Mucous Membranes, and especially those of the mouth and throat, suffer from lesions similar to those met with on the skin.
The local lesions are to be regarded as being of the nature of reactions against accumulations of the parasite, lymphocytes and plasma cells being the elements chiefly concerned in the reactive process.
Tertiary Lesions of the Skin and Subcutaneous Cellular Tissue.
Tuberculous lesions in the marrow occur as isolated or as multiple foci of granulation tissue, which replace the marrow and erode the trabeculæ of bone in the vicinity (Fig.
In para-syphilitic lesions such as general paralysis and tabes a positive reaction is almost always present.
Tertiary lesions of mucous membrane and of the submucous cellular tissue are met with chiefly in the tongue, nose, throat, larynx, and rectum.
The lesions in the bones resulting from actinomycosis and from mycetoma, have been described with these diseases.
Joint lesions of the nature of Charcot's disease may occur simultaneously with the alterations in the bones.
No doubt physiology, especially the disturbances of memory through lesions in the brain, affords grounds for this hypothesis; nevertheless it does remain a hypothesis, the validity of which will be discussed at the end of this lecture.
The argument from the connection of brain-lesions with loss of memory is not so strong as it looks, though it has also, some weight.
In neither case, however, can the resulting mischief be closely compared with the lesions attending an attack of laminitis proper, a disease which appears to have an almost specific cause, and to run a course peculiarly its own.
I divided the posterior tibial nerve, and she went back to work moving sound, and continued to work sound up to her death from one of the regularly fatal bowel lesions twist or rupture.
It simply means that the septic matters from the wound have gained the lymphatics, and finally the blood-vessels of the limb, and set up local lesions elsewhere than in the foot.
There was also a recent fracture of the part of the pedal bone which carries the articulation for the navicular bone, and this and the tendon lesions probably accounted for the final symptoms of 'break-down.
In other cases, however, the changes in the interior of the bone are accompanied by well-marked lesions on its gliding or postero-inferior surface, and by evidences of an osteoplastic periostitis along its edges.
Navicular Bone showingLesions of Navicular Disease (a Case of Long-standing).
The anterior ligament of the fetlock-joint was thickened; the navicular bone was entire, but showed lesions of navicular disease, being ulcerated.
It is quite probable, too, that slight lesions of the other restraining ligaments and tendons of the articulation may bring about a similar though less marked condition.
The amount of calcareous degeneration depends upon thelesions present.
But, it is a good rule to follow for a tuberculous person not to marry for two or three years, until all tuberculous lesions have been declared healed by a competent physician.
For, if a man is free from any skin lesions and from any mucous patches, his wife is safe from infection as long as she does not become pregnant.
The determination of the presence of valvular lesions is only a small part of the physical examination of the heart.
It acts specifically for good, and it has its greatest success in the valvular lesions that cause enlargement of the left ventricle, on which it acts the most intensely.
A heart which has not always been slow but has gradually become slow with the progress of hypertension and arteriosclerosis will often disclose on postmortem examination serious lesions of the coronary arteries.
Attacks of cardiac delirium (often auricular fibrillation) may occur with serious lesions of the heart, as valvular disease or sclerosis, but paroxysmal tachvcardia occurs in certain persons without any tangible cardiac excuse.
It might occur after a serious acute infectious endocarditis, but then it would be associated with other lesions of the heart.
It may, however, occur from lesions of the lungs which impede the blood flow through them.
The diagnosis as to whether the murmurs heard in the heart are hemic, functional, accidental, or indicative of valvular lesions would be without the scope of this book.
In irregular heart caused by serious cardiac or other lesions the treatment has already been described, or is that of the disease that has a badly acting heart as a complication.
The valvular lesions most apt to cause irregular action of the heart are mitral insufficiency or mitral stenosis.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lesions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
