Sentences with phrase «abdominal cavity»

Your veterinarian is trained to feel your pet's abdominal cavity for enlarged organs, masses, or other changes.

The pancreas is located within the upper abdominal cavity tucked closely to stomach and small intestines.

No obvious cause revealed itself that might explain the rapid death of an otherwise normal - appearing length of intestine in a youthful, pristine - looking abdominal cavity.

The whole abdominal cavity of the adult female is filled with developing embryos.

Intestines are enriched with the microflora and fibers which are carrying out important mission at digestion of the food received from mother, placed in abdominal cavity.

UT Southwestern has been a pioneer in identifying opportunities for minimally invasive surgery in several other areas, including efforts to develop magnetically controlled surgical instruments to reduce the number of entry ports into abdominal cavities.

The mother is still under anesthesia and has an open abdominal cavity, she adds, and «someone needs to be there to make sure that the baby doesn't slide off of her chest on to the floor.»

Hoping to treat the fetus when its immune system was especially primitive and the disease in a nascent stage, doctors infused stem cells into the fetus's abdominal cavity at just 12 weeks» gestation.

Mesothelioma is a rare type of cancer that affects the lining of the chest or abdominal cavities known as the mesothelium.

Symptoms are caused by fluid leaking into the lungs or abdominal cavity due to heart muscle insufficiency.

When a veterinarian opens the abdomen and then opens the large intestine, there is an increased chance of having the bacterial content of the colon spill into the free abdominal cavity, with the attendant risk of developing peritonitis or other forms of abdominal infection.

Residing in the upper abdominal cavity, the Kidneys are two bean - shaped organs of the urinary system.

It covers most of the abdominal organs and lies next to an identical layer, the parietal peritoneum, which lines the abdominal cavity.

Bloating or a full feeling in your abdominal cavity are potential side effects associated with psyllium husk, notes the UMMC.

What is done is dye is injected into the uterus and then theoretically it goes through the tubes and spills out into the abdominal cavity.

And one of the key examinations at birth of pediatricians is to check and make sure that the testicles are in the scrotum, and sometimes they may be but may move back into the abdominal cavity.

The baby is surrounded by amniotic fluid, which contains shock - absorbing properties, as well as by durable membranes and the muscle and bones of our uterus and abdominal cavity.

The intestines will soon move from outside your baby's body to inside the abdominal cavity.

Umbilical cord: Your babies» intestines, which have grown so rapidly that they protrude into the umbilical cord, will start to move back into the abdominal cavity now.

This mostly happens in the first trimester, and it gets easier in the second trimester, as the uterus rises into your abdominal cavity.

Uterine rupture — when the uterine wall is torn, which could allow the baby or placenta to be pushed into the mother's abdominal cavity

Gas during pregnancy can also increase later in pregnancy when the enlarging uterus places pressure on your abdominal cavity.

If a woman suffers uterine tearing during labor and delivery, the baby usually manages to slip into the abdominal cavity, developing fetal distress, while mom suffers hemorrhaging.

Hiccups occur when the irritated nerves of the abdominal cavity cause fluttering of the diaphragm due to accumulated gas or due to excessive intake of air during breastfeeding.

Abdominal cavity fat, on the other hand, is thought to be more dangerous.

The male's needle - like paramere — the bug equivalent of a penis — pierces the female's body, and he ejaculates directly into her abdominal cavity.

Even though increases in both types of fat were linked to new and worsening cardiovascular disease risk factors, the relationship was even more pronounced for fat inside the abdominal cavity compared to fat just under the skin.

Both subcutaneous adipose fat, the fat just under the skin, which is often visible «flab» or love handles, and visceral adipose fat, the fat inside the abdominal cavity, were measured.

Over the six - year follow - up period, participants had a 22 percent increase in fat just under the skin and a 45 percent increase in fat inside the abdominal cavity on average.

In particular, individuals with greater increases in fat inside the abdominal cavity showed substantial increases in metabolic risk factors including high blood sugar, high triglycerides and low HDL, or good cholesterol.

In the 1920s, Johns Hopkins graduate and trained gynecologist John Sampson first coined the term «endometriosis» and proposed the idea that endometriosis resulted when normal endometrial tissue spilled out through the fallopian tubes into the abdominal cavity during menstruation.

They emphasize that although abnormal tissue growth in endometriosis often spreads throughout the abdominal cavity, the tissue rarely becomes cancerous except in a few cases when ovaries are involved.

Seventy four percent of enrolled patients were diagnosed with ovarian cancer with tumors that had relapsed and metastasized in the peritoneum, the membrane that lines the abdominal cavity.

«We believe an overwhelming number of these altered cells reach the lining of the abdominal cavity, survive and grow,» Bulun said.

She never looked away, even when I concluded by telling her that the operation would kill her daughter if we were wrong — if no source of sepsis was found in Grace's abdominal cavity.

Archival tags, which measure about 5 by 2.5 centimetres, were placed in the abdominal cavities of the fish, along with a dose of antibiotic.

I explored every portion of the abdominal cavity, seeking an instigating factor for the imminent intestinal gangrene, but when I had concluded my probing and peering, I knew no more than I had at the outset.

The polyurethane foam begins as two liquids stored separately and injected together into the abdominal cavity.

To identify the explanation for this observation, the team grafted a heart into the abdominal cavity of experimental mice and induced immune tolerance.

By contrast, 16 out of 17 mice that produced annexin A2 in their cells developed metastatic tumors in the liver, lungs or abdominal cavity.

Recent research has shown that they aid the omentum by collecting information about the health of the abdominal cavity.

But she had no fever or evidence of peritonitis, an inflammation of the membrane that lines the abdominal cavity.

While the upper arm bone and elbow of a human strongly suggest biceps, the abdominal cavity of a skeleton provides no information — in humans or dinosaurs.

Nanoparticles tightly loaded with a dye compound are administered systemically — injected intravenously or into the peritoneum, the abdominal cavity.

During metastasis, ovarian tumor cells detach from the primary tumor site and migrate to the abdominal cavity, where their survival is supported by white blood cells known as tumor - associated macrophages.

The colon in birds runs through the center of the abdominal cavity while that of Scipionyx — and crocodiles — is located high up against the spine.

The authors were even able to induce the formation of pseudo-embryonic structures in the thoracic and abdominal cavities of the mice.