It is surprising the extent of injury to the pericardium Nature will tolerate.
There is one case on record in which after a death from sudden joy the pericardium was found full of blood.
On opening the pericardium it was found to be filled with blood-clot, and on washing this away a laceration about 1 1/2 inches in length was found in the left ventricle; the aperture was closed by a recent clot.
Several jagged fragments were removed; a portion of the pleura, two by four inches, had been torn away, exposing the pericardium and the left lung, and showing the former to have been penetrated and the latter torn.
Both the pericardium and left pleura were distended with fresh blood and large clots.
Several ribs were severed, and the left thoracic cavity was wholly exposed to view, showing the lungs, diaphragm, and pericardium all in motion.
The postmortem examination showed that the ball had pierced the sternum just above the xiphoid cartilage, and had entered the pericardium to the right and at the lower part.
At the postmortem, which was secured with some difficulty on account of the authorities ordering the bodies to be burned, the pericardium was found single, covering both hearts.
The pericardiumwas intact in at least half of the cases, and in 22 in which the precise seat of lesion was noticed the right ventricle was ruptured in eight, the left in three, the left auricle in seven, the right in four.
There was no scar of entrance discernible, though the pericardium was adherent.
In his "Comment on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates," Cardanus says that he witnessed the excision of a portion of the pericardium with the subsequent cure of the patient.
The pericardium was much distended and contained from six to eight ounces of partially coagulated blood.
Recently, Dalton records a remarkable case of stab-wound of the pericardiumwith division of the intercostal artery, upon which he operated.
Galen also adds, that upon one occasion he removed a portion of carious sternum and found the pericardiumin a putrid state, leaving a portion of the heart naked.
The pericardium is a sac composed of two layers--a fibrous membrane on the outside, and a serous one on the inside.
A correct idea may be formed of the disposition of the pericardium around the heart by recalling a very common and very convenient, though now discarded headdress, the cotton nightcap.
The pericardiumincloses the heart exactly as this cap covered the heads of our forefathers.
View from below of a scorpion (Buthus occitanus) opened and dissected so as to show the pericardium with its muscles, the lateral arteries, and the tergo-sternal muscles.
Whether the pericardium and the ventral sinus are made to expand simultaneously or all the movement is made by one only of the surfaces concerned, must depend on conditions of tension.
It is obvious that the contraction of these muscles must cause a depression of the floor of the pericardium and a rising of the roof of the ventral blood sinus, and a consequent increase of volume and flow of blood to each.
In both animals the wall of the pericardial sinus is connected by vertical muscular bands to the wall of the ventral venous sinus (its lateral expansions around the lung-books in Scorpio) in each somite through which the pericardium passes.
The chief difference is that the gonad or generative portion of the coelom is single and median, opening into the pericardium by a single posterior aperture.
The gonad is transversely wrinkled and lies between the aorta and the intestine, extending from the pericardium to the anterior end of the body.
There is a heart in the pericardium consisting of a median ventricle attached, except in Neomenia, to the dorsal wall of the pericardium, and in Neomenia a pair of auricular ducts returning blood from the gills to the ventricle.
The pericardium is ciliated internally on its dorsal and lateral walls.
The excretory organs are coelomoducts with an internal ciliated opening into the pericardium and an opening to the exterior.
The people carried it with them in bags formed of tripe or the dried pericardium of animals.
Perhaps there is water to be fetched in bags made from the dried pericardium of an animal; the girl brings some in a smaller water-bag.
That of the pericardium which forms the outer surface of the heart; the cardiac pericardium.
A thin watery fluid, containing more or less albumin, secreted by the serous membranes of the body, such as the pericardium and peritoneum.
The heart was healthy; the pericardiumcontained some straw-coloured fluid.
The liver and kidneys were deeply congested, the lungs also congested; the right ventricle of the heart was distended with blood; in the pericardium there was a quantity of bloody serum.
A few petechial spots (Tardieu’s spots) are apt to be found underneath the pericardium in the heart tissue and sometimes beneath the pleura.
The coronary artery was divided and the pericardium was filled with blood.
Pericardium empty; heart distended, left side with red blood just beginning to clot; right side with fluid black blood.
Note next the contents of the pericardium and whether there is any serous, fibrous, or purulent exudation.
Open the pericardium by an oblique incision along the anterior wall, and prolong this incision downward and outward toward the diaphragm and upward to its reflection from the great vessels.
The existence of two renal organs in Patella, and their relation to the pericardium (a portion of the coelom), is important.
Heart has only a single auricle, neither heart nor pericardium traversed by rectum.
Internally this glandular sac presents a second slit or aperture which leads into thepericardium (as is now found to be the case in all Mollusca).
Pericardium indicated by a dotted outline--at its right side are seen the two reno-pericardial pores.
The heart lying within the adjacent pericardium has the usual form, a single auricle and ventricle.
The renal sacs communicate with the pericardium by pores near the external renal apertures; in the Octopoda the reno-pericardial openings are in the capsules of the branchial hearts.
The opening of an hepatic abscess into the pericardium is rare, since in Waring's collection of 300 fatal cases there was not one.
In very rare cases febrile disturbance, ushered in by chills, may be followed by inflammation of the endo- or pericardium or pleura before the joints become affected.
In Greenhow's 2 deaths out of 50 cases treated by sodium salicylate the pericardium was universally adherent and the heart's fibre fatty in one and pale and flabby in the other.
The opening of gastric ulcer into the pericardium is one of the rare causes of pneumo-pericardium.
The tendency which inflammation of the pericardium has to extend to the pleura probably partially accounts for the more frequent association of the pulmonary affections with rheumatic peri- than with rheumatic endocarditis.
The endo- and pericardium are studded with ecchymoses or marked by hemorrhagic extravasations, and the pleura presents similar appearances, but not to the same extent.
Murchison mentions a specimen in the museum of King's College, London, of a simple gastric ulcer opening into the pericardium (Edinb.
The pericardium often contains serum, and in the worst cases is inflamed, lacerable, and contains bloody effusions.
In a case reported by Graves a liver abscess burst into the stomach and into the pericardium (Clin.
The lungs and serous membranes generally will, in all probability, show more or less of tubercular deposit, the pericardium less frequently than the others.
Dropsy of the pericardium will give the same wide space of dullness, but the impulse and sound are lessened.
By extension of inflammation of the endocardium or pericardium the muscle of the heart may become involved.
It is suspended from the spine by the large blood vessels and held in position below by the attachment of the pericardium to the sternum.
Between the second and fourth days this sound may disappear, due to a distension of the pericardium by an exudate or serous effusion.
Inflammation of the pericardium (heart bag) is often associated with pneumonia and pleurisy, rheumatism, and other constitutional diseases, or with an injury.
In extreme cases tapping the pericardiumwith a trocar and cannula to draw off the fluid is resorted to, but the operation requires exact anatomical knowledge.
The pericardium and the left side of the thorax contained a small quantity of bloody serous fluid, and the heart was full of black blood.
The following singular case of a wound penetrating into the chest and pericardium of a dog, is recorded by Professor Delafond: A mastiff dog fighting with another was stabbed in the chest by the master of his antagonist.
From the mesoderm on the caudal side of the pericardium is developed the septum transversum, and in this the central tendon is formed.
The septum of the brain, the pericardium of the chest--the diaphragm of the abdomen which is a dividing septum between the abdomen and chest.
It is great experience alone that can diagnose hydro-pericardium from hypertrophy of the substance of the heart by either of these means.
Pericardium investing the heart and the origins of the great bloodvessels.
The pericardial cavity becomes completely separated from the body cavity, and a distinct pericardium is formed.
They soon moreover extend beyond the region of the pericardium into the undivided body cavity behind.
Note within the pericardium a long tube extending through it.
The pericardium is filled with a watery fluid, body-lymph, which bathes the heart.
Remove the pericardium and note a pair of dorsal openings into the heart, called ostia.
After bathing the body-tissues the blood is collected into a median longitudinal vein beneath the pericardium called the vena cava.
The female flowers have an undivided fleshy calyx with two styles, and this fleshy covering forms thepericardium of the fruit, which is a drupe.
A correct idea may be formed of the arrangement of the pericardium around the heart by recalling how a boy puts on and wears his toboggan cap.
The pericardium encloses the heart exactly as this cap covers the boy's head.
This fluid permits the heart and the pericardium to glide upon one another with the least possible amount of friction.
Absorption from the lungs and pericardium by emetics.
Do not the dropsies of the thorax and pericardium frequently exist together, and thus add to the uncertainty and fatality of the disease?
In the dropsy of the pericardium does not the patient bear the horizontal or perpendicular attitude with equal ease?
Does this circumstance distinguish the dropsy of the pericardium from that of the lungs and of the thorax?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pericardium" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: amnion; eardrum; membrane; pellicle; pleura; tympanum
