The abdomen was then normal in appearance, and as to physical signs, except for a tympanitic note over the hepatic area to the right of the wound.
Three weeks later a swelling was obvious to the right side of the umbilicus, and a tympaniticabscess developed; this was opened, and a deformed Mauser bullet extracted.
During the third week a large tympanitic abscess developed at the aperture of exit, and this was opened (Mr. S.
The abdomen moved with respiration, but was moderately distended, especially in the line of the transverse colon; it was tympanitic on percussion, there was no dulness in the flanks, and only moderate rigidity of the wall on palpation.
The early development of a tympanitic abscess suggested an injury to the colon, but this was not by any means certain.
There were no serious primary symptoms, but ten days after the accident the temperature rose, swelling and pain developed in the right loin, and on the fourteenth day a large tympanitic abscess was opened (Dr.
The many remedies for colic and tympanitic distension which have the property of relieving spasm and absorbing gas find application in these conditions.
The results of this are a swollen, tympanitic abdomen and impaction of the bowels, but the general health may be very good.
As the disease advances the tympanitic resonance may give place to dulness on percussion on the sides and lower part of the abdomen.
At times there is merely a sense of fulness and resistance to the touch, and a modified tympanitic percussion note in one of the three regions of the upper segment of the abdomen.
Abdominal distension is slow in making its appearance, but after a time is well marked, and due more to tympanitis than to {861} constipation; the tympanitic distension is accompanied by loud rumbling and gurgling noises in the bowels.
The caecum in paratyphlitis is mostly empty or is filled with gas, whose presence is recognized by tympanitic resonance on lighter percussion.
The abdomen is tympanitic and excessively tender to the touch, and the knees are drawn up to relieve the tension of the abdominal muscles.
The abdomen becomes suddenly distended, meteoric over its entire surface, the normal hepatic dulness giving place to a tympanitic resonance.
Sometimes there is very little alteration over the tumor of the normal tympanitic note belonging to the stomach; on the other hand, exceptionally there is absolute flatness over the tumor.
The symptoms which have been chiefly emphasized are severe abdominal pain, tympanitic distension of the stomach, and absence or cessation of vomiting if this has previously existed.
If the attack be wind colic, the abdomen is enlarged by tympanitic distension; borborygmi and belching occur.
Light percussion will often bring out a zone of tympanitic resonance between the hepatic flatness and the dulness of gastric tumors.
Erichsen states that in twisting of the bowel the abdomen is unevenly distended, it being tympanitic on one side and flattened on the other.
The percussion note over tumors of the liver is flat, while a tympanitic quality is usually associated with the dulness over tumors of the stomach.
Under favorable circumstances it can sometimes be determined that this tumor is smooth, elastic, tympanitic on percussion, and presents more or less distinctly the contours of the stomach.
The mature segments are elliptical in outline or like a melon-seed, whence the name.
As previously intimated, the common source of the beef tape-worm in man is the use of raw or insufficiently cooked beef affected with measles.
This, which is now regarded as the most common tape-worm of man, is named the beef tape-worm because it is derived from the beef used as food.
There is a localized swelling, immovable in breathing or when pressed upon, and having a tympanitic sound on percussion over it with dull sound on pressure and heavy stroke.
The merchant wastympanitic from the first day of his prostration, which is not usual.
In some cases there is vomiting from an early period, with more or less tympanitic distention; but these symptoms rather depend upon the disease being complicated with one of the other modifications.
This mostly occurs as a result of engorged or tympanitic stomach (engorgement colic) and from the horse violently throwing himself when so affected.
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