The situation of this tumor opposite the tenth rib and its pyriformshape are important; other distinguishing points depend upon the cause of the enlargement.
The tumor of the distended gall-bladder is pyriform in shape, firm and elastic to the touch, yields a dull percussion sound, and occupies a position opposite the extremity of the tenth rib on the right side of the abdomen.
In cases of dropsy of the gall-bladder there are no febrile symptoms, no chills, and the tenderness when present is limited to the pyriform body, the seat of the accumulation of fluid, and no general enlargement of the liver can be made out.
From biliary colic it is distinguished by the absence of rigors, jaundice, enlargement of the liver, and a tender pyriform tumor corresponding in situation to the gall-bladder and due to its distension with accumulated bile.
Some are considerably elongated ovals, with a marked pyriform tendency.
In shape they are typically much elongated and somewhatpyriform ovals, very obtuse at both ends; but moderately broad examples are met with.
In the nest were three pure white ovato-pyriform eggs, but so far incubated that they would probably have hatched off before the day was out.
Pyriform examples occur, but a somewhat perfect oval is the usual type, and the examination of a large series shows that the tendency is to vary to a globular and not to an elongated shape.
In shape they are elongated ovals, generally very obtuse at both ends, and many of them exhibiting cylindrical or pyriform tendencies.
These tiny eggs, almost smaller than those of any European bird that I know, are broad ovals, sometimes almost globular, but generally somewhat compressed towards one end, so as to assume something of a pyriform shape.
The eggs are typically, I think, shorter and proportionally broader than those of other kindred species already described; very pyriform varieties are, however, common.
The eggs are precisely like those of the several species of Argya, moderately broad ovals rather obtuse at both ends, often with a pyriform tendency.
The eggs of this species are typically moderately broad ovals, slightly pointed towards the small end, but elongated and more or less blunt-ended pyriform examples occur.
A bolus of food is split by the epiglottis and the two portions drifted laterally into the pyriform sinuses, the recesses seen on either side of the larynx.
The lurking of the foreign body in the unexplored pyriform sinus.
This is associated with the accumulation of secretion in the pyriform sinuses (the author's sign of esophageal stenosis) which overflows into the larynx and incites violent coughing.
Galvanopuncture for laryngeal tuberculosis has yielded excellent results in reducing the large pyriform edematous swellings of the aryepiglottic folds when ulceration has not yet developed.
The pyriform sinuses in these cases are seen with the laryngeal mirror to be filled with frothy secretion (Jackson's sign of esophageal stenosis) and this secretion may sometimes be seen trickling into the larynx.
Passing through the right pyriform sinus with the esophagoscope; dorsally recumbent patient.
This is the landmark of the pyriform sinus, and care must be taken to avoid injury by hooking the tube mouth over it or its fellow.
The epiglottis, the first landmark in direct laryngoscopy, is a leaf-like projection springing from the anterointernal surface of the larynx and having for its function the directing of the bolus of food into the pyriform sinuses.
The author is much impressed with Freer's method of radiation from the pyriform sinus in such cases as those in which external radiation alone is deemed insufficient.
Radium, in form of capsules or of needles inserted in the tissues may be applied with great accuracy; but the author is strongly impressed with pyriform sinus applications by the Freer method.
The lower illustration shows schematically the method of finding the pyriform sinus in the author's method of esophagoscopy.
The function of the epiglottis seems to be to split the food bolus and direct its portions laterally into the pyriform sinuses, rather than to take any important part in the closure of the larynx.
The larynx is to be exposed as in direct laryngoscopy, the right pyriform sinus identified, the tip of the speculum inserted therein, and gently insinuated to the cricopharyngeal constriction.
The right pyriform sinus in the dorsally recumbent patient, the eminence at the upper left border, corresponds to the edge of the cricoid cartilage.
It is through the pyriform sinus that the esophagoscope is to be inserted, thereby following the natural food passage.
The germinal disc continues gradually to spread over the yolk, but the original pyriform area is thicker than the remainder, and is marked off anteriorly and posteriorly by a shallow furrow.
It rapidly grows larger and becomes a paired pyriform gland, in which are secreted the byssus threads which serve to attach all the embryos at a common point to the walls of the brood-pouch.
The eggs vary in shape; occasionally they are pyriform and ovoidal, and, at other times, decidedly ovate.
The eggs of this species are less pyriform than waders' mostly are, being, in some instances, almost ovoidal.
Raddi saw a proof that there was no essential difference, for he observed pyriform and round fruits growing on the same tree in Brazil.
By the left side of the heart of Nautilus, attached to it by a membrane, and hanging loosely in the viscero-pericardial chamber, is the pyriform sac of Owen.
Bourne that the genital ducts of both sexes are paired right and left, the left duct being rudimentary and forming the "pyriform appendage," described by Sir R.
Aperture of the rudimentary left oviduct (pyriform sac of Owen).
What few eggs I have seen, not over a baker's dozen, are ovate pyriform in shape and have little or no gloss.
They are, as a rule, more or less distinctly pyriform and are normally four in number.
They vary in shape from ovate pyriform (the usual shape) to subpyriform, and they have only a slight gloss.
These are ovate pyriform in shape and have a slight gloss.
In shape they vary from ovate pyriform to subpyriform; some are quite rounded and others are decidedly pointed.
The eggs are pyriform in shape and when large series are examined, show considerable variation, the ground color ranging from creamy white, stone color, to pale greenish gray or light purplish red and warm reddish ochreous.
The four eggs usually laid by the white-rumped sandpiper are ovate pyriform in shape; all that I have seen are uniform in shape and have characteristic colors and markings.
They are pyriformto subpyriform in shape and are placed in the nest with the small ends together and pointed downward, snuggling amid the loose interior contents of the nest.
The eggs are ovate pyriform in shape, with a slight gloss.
In shape they are subpyriform to ovate pyriform and rest amid the leafy nest lining with the small ends together often so placed that the sitting bird during incubation touches only the larger ends.
They are pyriform in shape with a pale stone colored ground and boldly spotted and blotched with dark umber, shading into black and numerous ashy gray shell markings.
These vary in shape from ovate or ovate pyriform to subovate, and they have a slight gloss.
The clutch consists of four eggs normally, blunt pyriform in shape with slight gloss.
They are about ovate pyriform in shape and slightly glossy.
The eggs of the Ringed Plover are always four in number, very pyriform in shape, and invariably laid with the pointed ends turned inwards.
The four eggs are very pyriformin shape, and vary from pale buff to dark buff, handsomely and boldly blotched and spotted with rich dark brown, paler brown and gray.
The four pyriform eggs are pale olive or pale brown, blotched and spotted with reddish- and blackish-brown and gray.
The four pyriform eggs are pale buff, tinged with olive, blotched and spotted with dark brown and paler brown.
From the lower extremity of this incision--which of course enters the maxillary sinus--the bone which separates it from the pyriform fossa is broken through with stout forceps.
The cyst forms a characteristic tense ovoid or pyriform swelling in the posterior third of the labium majus.
They are connected to the mucous membrane by a narrow pedicle; generally occur in clusters, and are of pyriform shape; one or more are often suspended from one narrow base, and they seldom attain a large size.
September, pyriform to short ellipsoidal, scarlet or red, glabrous or slightly pubescent, 1.
The pyriform medullary plate, already described, is the first external indication of the embryo.
A central lighter portion next becomes apparent, which gradually spreads, till eventually the darker part of the embryonic area forms a crescent at the posterior part of the now somewhat pyriform embryonic area.
It is somewhatpyriform in shape, the narrower end corresponding with the future posterior end of the embryo.
The formation of the medullary canal commences by the nervous layer along the axial dorsal line becoming thickened, and giving rise to a somewhat pyriform medullary plate, the sides of which form the projecting medullary folds (fig.
The whole plant is generally obovate, pyriform or turbinate, and the spines are larger and more or less curved at and near the apex, diminishing in size toward the base where they are more persistent.
Thirteen are noted as round, 7 as ovoid, 4 as oval, several had broad parietal and narrow frontal regions producing a pyriform norma verticalis.
The shape is pyriform in 2, oval to roundish in the remainder.
Sporangia varying from globose to pyriform or turbinate, supported on a more or less elongated stipe.
Sporangia obovoid to pyriformor clavate, often fasciculate, stipitate; the wall a thin membrane, with a thick dense outer layer of brown-red granules.
Sporangium obovoid to pyriform or turbinate, rarely clavate, stipitate; the wall thin, smooth and shining, colored as the spores and capillitium.
This, though variable, is yet generally so far pyriform as to show distinct contraction toward the stipe.
The singular "pyriform appendage" of the heart lies in the left process of the ligament, its anterior edge nearly following the arcuated contour of that process.
From all parts of the pyriform sac narrow stalk-like tubes are given off, ending in abundant widely-spread branching glandular caeca, which form the essential renal secreting apparatus.
Each nephridium in the oyster is a pyriform sac, which communicates by a narrow canal with the urino-genital groove placed to the front of the great adductor muscle; by a second narrow canal it communicates with the pericardium.
Distal ends of the radial tubes inflated, usually in the form of an ovate or pyriform terminal knob.
The helmet-shaped occipital lobe is about as large as the frontal half of the cephalis, which is divided into three pairs of smaller pyriform lobes.
The pyriform three-jointed shell has neither lateral nor terminal free appendages, but possesses a very large apical horn, and an inner prolongation of this, an axial rod, which bears some triradiate verticils of branched spines.
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