Substernal distress, with a feeling of fullness and pressure followed by eructations of gas and regurgitation of food within a period of a quarter of an hour to several hours after eating, are present.
Therefore, in all esophageal cases the esophagus should be emptied by regurgitation induced by titillating the fauces with the finger after swallowing a tumblerful of water, pressure on the neck, etc.
Actual "corking" of the strictured lumen by a fragment of food, in which case intermittency may be due to partial regurgitation of the "corking" mass with subsequent sinking tightly into the stricture.
If the esophageal dilatation be great, regurgitation may occur only after an accumulation of several days, when large quantities of stale food will be expelled.
Regurgitation of food from the stomach is normally prevented by the hiatal muscular diaphragmatic closure (called by the author the "diaphragmatic pinchcock") plus the kinking of the abdominal esophagus.
In passing it may be stated that the pinchcock action, plus the kinking of the esophagus normally prevents regurgitation when a man with a full stomach "stands on his head" or inverts his body.
Esophageal antiperistalsis is the name given by the author to a heretofore undescribed disease associated with regurgitation of food from the esophagus, the food not having reached the stomach.
In aortic regurgitation this low diastolic pressure is constantly in evidence, and, if the systolic pressure is not below normal, does not signify that the circulation is insufficient.
In aortic regurgitation Nature causes the heart to beat rapidly.
Under this treatment of digitalis, rest and regulated diet, a dilated left ventricle with a systolic mitral blow often becomes contracted and this regurgitation disappears.
The same is true with aortic regurgitation and a high systolic pressure.
If a heart is slowed too much, the regurgitationinto the left ventricle is increased.
Such regurgitation may occur without valvular disease if for any reason the left ventricle becomes dilated sufficiently to cause the valve to be insufficient.
In mitral regurgitation the left ventricle is dilated, and in pregnancy the regurgitation is increased by the peripheral resistance or obstruction.
The patient complains of a sensation of weight and discomfort in the lower part of the chest, and sometimes of regurgitation of food into the nasal passages during sleep.
A gurgling noise on swallowing, and regurgitation of food are occasionally observed.
In tuberculous lesions the symptoms are pain, dysphagia, and regurgitation of food mixed with blood, and the condition is liable to be mistaken for gastric ulcer or for cancer of the œsophagus.
The child has great pain on swallowing, there is regurgitation of food, and the saliva dribbles from the mouth.
The patient, usually a man over forty years of age, complains of dryness in the throat and of a sensation as of a foreign body; later there is regurgitation of saliva and of food with occasional choking.
If he attempted to check the regurgitation he sometimes had a slight feeling of fulness in the stomach.
During the whole period there was little nausea and occasionalregurgitation of the mother's milk, due to over-feeding.
According to Cohnheim, the engorgement of the region with blood takes place from venous regurgitation into the obstructed part, till the intravenous pressure is overcome by the resistance of the tissues in the region affected.
The jerking pulse of aortic regurgitation is the most remarkable example of this.
The many valves, which occur in the progress of the lymphatic and lacteal vessels, would seem insuperable obstacles to the regurgitation of their contents.
At this time the valve in the colon, from the inverted motions of that bowel, and the inverted action of this living valve, does not prevent the regurgitation of its contents.
From the first stomach regurgitation takes place; that is, the food is returned through the gullet to the mouth to be more thoroughly chewed, and this constitutes what is known as "chewing the cud.
Defn: The regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, -- occasionally oberved as a morbid phenomenon in man.
The deglutition or the regurgitation may be {414} accompanied by spasm of the muscular coat of the oesophagus.
One {432} of the special indications of diverticulum is that the regurgitation does not take place until several hours after a meal.
In some instances it is associated with partial regurgitation of a mass of air (the globus hystericus).
This sensation may be accompanied or be followed at a brief interval by regurgitation of food or mucus, or food enveloped with mucus, the latter in some instances tinged with blood.
These novel statements are confirmed by the observations of Parrot, Balfour, and William Russell,[71] which go to prove that tricuspid regurgitation occurs frequently in the more advanced stages of debility.
The symptoms diagnostic of cancer of the cardia are dysphagia, regurgitation of food, obstruction in the passage of the oesophageal bougie, and sinking in of the epigastric region in consequence of atrophy of the stomach.
Hypertrophy of the liver, caused by mitral regurgitation or other disease of the heart, does not generally produce dropsy, but, aided by anaemia or watery condition of the blood, such a result is possible.
If regurgitation of hot air or of caustic fluids takes place through the nasal passages, the injury will of course involve those regions.
When the spasm is high up, the regurgitation may follow the act of deglutition almost immediately.
Blood from a gastric ulcer may also be voided per rectum as well as per os, and the blood from a duodenal ulcer after regurgitation may be wholly discharged by vomiting.
The act of vomiting is usually easy, and at times is hardly more than regurgitation of the food.
The arterial openings, both on the right and on the left side, are provided with three-flapped semilunar-shaped valves, to prevent the regurgitation of blood when the ventricles contract.
Valvular obstruction and adhesions may occur or the tendinous cords may be lengthened or shortened, thus obstructing the orifices and permitting the regurgitation of blood.
Venous regurgitation is sometimes noticed in the jugular before death.
There were also digestive troubles, regurgitation after meals and the patient had become thin and weak.
This method of treatment is best carried out just before a meal, as the stomach is then practically empty and the unpleasant effects of the sudden regurgitation of food are avoided.
A few days later there was a paralysis of the uvula with regurgitation of liquids from the nose; but patient was able to go on convalescence July 21.
As development goes on each of these ridges becomes segmented into a row of pocket valves with their openings directed anteriorly so thatregurgitation causes them to open out and occlude the lumen by their free edges meeting.
The conus arteriosus is of interest from the valvular arrangements in its interior to prevent regurgitation of blood from ventral aorta into ventricle.
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