Sentences with phrase «in abdominal cavity»

The pancreas is a gland in the abdominal cavity that produces enzymes which aid in digestion, and hormones such as insulin which regulate the metabolism of sugar.

Tapeworm larvae have been associated with fluid build - up in the abdominal cavity, poor appetite, weight loss and even death.

As she regained control of the corners of her mouth, she announced that both of the bright spots on the x-ray were in the abdominal cavity, not in the bladder and that the bright spots were most likely flaws on the film!

Fluid may also collect in the abdominal cavity and body tissues.

Severe abdominal pain and gradual accumulation of hemorrhagic blood in the abdominal cavity can lead to acute shock and death.

My Toby was diagnosed with HEMANGIOSARCOMA of the spleen 4.5 years ago and had an emergency Spleenectomy which revealed a burst tumor in his abdominal cavity.

In rare cases, a penetrating bite wound can cause septic arthritis (infection of the joint), osteomyelitis (infection of the bone), pyothorax (pus in the chest cavity) or septic peritonitis (pus in the abdominal cavity).

Cough, exercise intolerance, dyspnea (difficulty breathing), abnormal lung sounds, hepatomegaly (enlargement of the liver), syncope (temporary loss of consciousness due to poor blood flow to the brain), ascites (fluid accumulation in the abdominal cavity), abnormal heart sounds, death

Pancreatitis The pancreas is a gland in the abdominal cavity near the stomach and liver that produces enzymes which aid in the digestion of food.

There they grow some more before they begin their final migration into the viscera (the organs in the abdominal cavity), the nervous system, or the eye.

It can develop very rapidly into fluid buildups in the abdominal cavity, a very sudden difficulty in breathing, and it also can cause your dog to lose their vision.

Ultrasound imaging can help determine the size and shape of the liver and may reveal abnormalities such as nodules on the liver or swelling in the abdominal cavity.

If fluids have built up in the abdominal cavity, these will first need to to be drained by a process known as abdominocentesis, in which a needle is inserted directly into the cavity, and excess fluid is drawn out.

In more severe cases, signs include the enlargement of the liver, temporary loss of consciousness due to poor blood flow to the brain, excessive fluid in the abdominal cavity and abnormal heart sounds.

Most often, an affected dog is diagnosed with edema or fluid in the abdominal cavity, a condition known as ascites.

Some male dogs are cryptorchid — a condition in which one or both testicles have not descended into the scrotum but instead stay in the abdominal cavity.

Blood isn't normally present in the abdominal cavity where the bladder, intestines, spleen, and liver are located.

More and more fluid leaks out of capillaries causing increased gagging and coughing, reduced stamina and increased fluid collection in the abdominal cavity and body tissues.

Rabbits meet most of their nutrient needs by fermenting dietary fiber in a specialized chamber in their abdominal cavity called the cecum.

Fat in the chest cavity can affect the lungs and heart; fat in the abdominal cavity can affect the intestines, leading to constipation.

Many organs are located in the abdominal cavity of dogs and cats.

The adrenal glands are situated along the vena cava (the large vein in the abdominal cavity) near each kidney.

When you bring the rib cage down and back the pressures even out and decreases the forces in the abdominal cavity, helping everything out.

In addition to helping you lose weight, there is some evidence that viscous soluble fiber also targets and reduce the harmful fat in the abdominal cavity belly fat which is strongly associated with increased health risks such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes (14).

In addition to providing a calorie - dense source of energy, visceral fat protects organs in the abdominal cavity from damage.

The people also lost 4 - 7 % of their waist circumference, which indicates that they lost lots of belly fat, the harmful fat in the abdominal cavity that causes disease.

A properly functioning pelvic floor needs the perfect amount of pressure in your abdominal cavity.

Several studies have shown that you can lose * fat by adding coconut oil to your diet, the most important thing is that it helps to remove * dangerous fat present in the abdominal cavity.

The liver is attached under the rib cage, high up in the abdominal cavity.

Coconut oil appears to be especially effective in reducing abdominal fat, which lodges in the abdominal cavity and around organs.

There is some evidence that the weight loss effects of fiber target the belly fat specifically, which is the harmful fat in the abdominal cavity that is strongly associated with metabolic disease (25).

Also known as abdominal obesity or central obesity, visceral obesity refers to excess fat in the abdominal cavity that causes low - grade inflammation.

All I had wrong was out of 25 birds, one hen began to crow, (high estrogen, don't know why it would do that, but there it is) and one got an egg lost in her abdominal cavity.

In one study, 6 weeks of training just the abdominal muscles had no measurable effect on waist circumference or the amount of fat in the abdominal cavity (32).

In one 5 - year study, eating 10 grams of soluble fiber per day was linked to a 3.7 % reduction in the amount of fat in the abdominal cavity (29).

The liver, being the largest organ in the abdominal cavity, occupies a large area under the right rib cage.

The reason why belts are used is to create air pressure in your abdominal cavity that will protect the spine while you are lifting relatively heavy loads.

Visceral fat is stored deeper in the abdominal cavity and around the internal organs, whereas regular fat is stored below the skin (known as subcutaneous fat).

The reduction in liver size would make working in the abdominal cavity much easier, with better vision.

However, as you lie on your back, and the body lengthens out and the torso becomes symmetrical, the phrenic nerve opens up, allowing room in the abdominal cavity for the diaphragm to work.

Observation of microsphere movement in the lateral and ventral portions of the abdomen revealed that flow in the abdominal cavity is variable due to the lack of distinct hemolymph vessels.

Once inside a human host, the larvae will penetrate the stomach wall and live in the abdominal cavity, growing for three months before mating.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.