"body cavity" refers to a hollow space or hole inside a living organism's body. It can be found in many animals, including humans, and is surrounded by organs or tissues. Body cavities help protect our internal organs and allow them to work properly.
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They inhabit holes and cracks in the reef, can live inside the central
body cavity of large sponges or tuck themselves away inside an abandoned snail shell.
F.A.S.T. studies are an important diagnostic tool for trauma patients and patients with life - threatening conditions such as bleeding
into body cavities from toxicity or ruptured tumor.
Vascular endothelial growth factor concentrations
in body cavity effusions in dogs.
Intravenous fluids help maintain blood pressure in the anesthetized patient and will replace lost fluids (during surgery, fluids are lost through evaporation
from body cavity surfaces, through bleeding, and in any tissues that are being removed).
Internal bleeding in
body cavities such as the chest or abdomen can cause swelling that can lead to death.
«But it's so much safer than having a woman get a tubal ligation, which is a big operation inside a major
body cavity with general anaesthesia.»
While all small - animal board certified surgeons are trained in both orthopedic and general (soft - tissue) surgery, Dr. Padgett is able to concentrate primarily on soft tissue surgery (mostly
within body cavities).
mucosal membrane - moist (wet) tissue that
lines body cavities or passages that have an opening to the external world, such as the mouth, nose, rectum or vagina.
Dog x-rays are by far the most regularly used form of diagnostic imaging in the veterinary industry because they are cost effective (comparatively speaking), and they can accurately diagnose the state of skeletal structure and composition,
large body cavities, and the presence of many foreign objects.
She faces a felony charge of criminal mischief for breaking a chair used to scan inmates»
body cavities for contraband.
Liberal use of expansion foam (replacing the previously used block foam) thoroughly
fills body cavities, reducing outside wind and road noise.
Stuff body cavity loosely with remaining stuffing (you can bake any leftover stuffing in covered casserole 1 hour, basting occasionally with turkey drippings, if desired).
Brooding sea anemones incubate eggs within their
central body cavity, later releasing fully formed juveniles, but little is known about the feeding mechanisms used during these stages.
They may check mucous membraneA tissue that secretes mucous and that lines
many body cavities and tubular organs including the gut and respiratory passages.
This is how liberty dies: The poll found almost one third of American adults would accept a «
TSA body cavity search» in order to fly.
They are thought to be at greatest risk because they have
deep body cavities which allow space for the stomach to move and twist.
[Water weight] is extra water that's hanging around the tissues, joints, and
body cavities between cells,» says Abbey Sharp, RD, owner of Abbey's Kitchen.
Gurgles of beer, slurps of sauce, appropriate (and inappropriate)
body cavity sounds bounce off the grease - stained walls as four crazed barbecue fanatics go at it full bore.
Place the can in the chicken roost and place the chicken,
body cavity down, onto the can.
Ice crystallizing in the frog's
body cavities draws some of the water from the cells in the flesh and organs.
The team identified a number of organs inside the specimens, including mouths, guts, possible sense organs and
body cavities called coeloms.
Parts of the fungal cell wall, mainly a sugar called beta - glucan, moved through the mouse's intestinal wall into the
surrounding body cavity and organs.
In a mouse model of peritonitis (
body cavity infection), infection with the heteroresistant isolates was lethal and untreatable by colistin.
Vaginal Speculum (1600s) Specula have been used for thousands of years to allow doctors better vision and access to the vaginal area (or
other body cavities) by expanding after insertion.
She had a
sizable body cavity the right size for holding a small wallet and lip gloss, but also had an intentional hole where the «mouth» was, making me wonder if she had once been a wine bottle holder or even a planter.
Porsche's new Sound Symposers, that channel intake resonance into the
A-pillar body cavities, paired with butterfly valves in the tailpipes, bring the GTS alive once the Sport button is depressed.
The talk is free, although stock pickers will have to pass through a metal detector and submit to a
thorough body cavity search.
Through the small incisions, a veterinarian can insert a small camera into
different body cavities including the abdomen, chest, and joints.
Using rat models, Hiebert discovered that oral heparin rapidly enters the body's circulation with much of the drug being taken up by the endothelium (layer of flattened cells that line blood vessels and some
internal body cavities).
He examined the
dogs body cavity and found that the spleen was significantly enlarged and a portion of surface appeared abnormal.
Veterinary surgeons tend to specialize in certain areas: orthopedics (e.g. bones, joints, and muscles), neurosurgery, or soft tissue surgery (
e.g. body cavities, skin, cardiovascular system, GI / urogenital / respiratory tracts).
Effusive FIP is caused by Arthus - type, immune - complex damage to small blood vessels that permits leakage of serum protein and fluid
into body cavities.
In cardiology, a centesis is usually used as an adjunct therapy to manage patients in congestive heart failure who develop large quantities of fluid
in body cavities.
When FIP symptoms become apparent, they often include small tissue abscesses (pyogranulomatous lesions) in the liver, kidneys, and the membrane that lines the abdomen (peritoneum); and fluid accumulation
within body cavities.
Collection of tissue samples is facilitated by ultrasound guided techniques as well as fluid collection
from body cavities (abdominocentesis, thoracocentesis and pericardiocentesis).
Dogs have often been treated with cisplatin by injecting the fluid right into the
affected body cavity (intracavitary treatment).
A tissue that secretes mucous and that lines
many body cavities and tubular organs including the gut and respiratory passages.
The poll found almost one third of American adults would accept a «
TSA body cavity search» in order to fly.
cat x-rays are by far the most regularly used form of diagnostic imaging in the veterinary industry because they are cost effective (comparatively speaking), and they can accurately diagnose the state of skeletal structure and composition,
large body cavities, and the presence of many foreign objects.
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