Abscess Sentence Examples

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  • Pus being found, the abscess should be freely opened and drained.

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  • On his journey he was upset from his carriage, and the accident caused an internal abscess which was never cured.

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  • It is inadvisable to explore for a suspected abscess with a hollow needle without first opening the abdomen, as septic fluid might thus be enabled to leak out, and infect the general peritoneal cavity.

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  • A skin abscess is usually self-healing in a healthy adult.

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  • They may also come with a gurgling lump in the left side of the neck and rarely with a lung abscess.

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  • People who survive a brain abscess may suffer damage to the brain.

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  • The only safe way for an abscess to evacuate itself is on to the surface of the body.

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  • A diabetic patient with an open wound in his neck as a result of a surgically drained tooth abscess.

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  • Here, one of our elephants suffers from a foot abscess, which has been treated consistently for 8 weeks.

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  • Possible causes of an abscess would include appendicitis, Crohn's disease, diverticular disease of the caecum, renal infection,?

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  • Although majority of the cultures from the pus aspirated are positive, a negative culture does not exclude pyogenic abscess.

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  • One month later he returned with this large indurated abscess, thought to be in the inguinal canal.

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  • The abscess is actually a cavity under the skin, filled with many little ' walls ' that contain the pus.

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  • Serological test methods for the detection of anti-amoebic antibodies remain extremely useful for the diagnosis of amoebic liver abscess.

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  • Recently, packing the abscess cavity with calcium hydroxide has been recommended.

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  • The nodes may be tender and hard or soft and "rubbery" if an abscess has formed.

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  • If the white cells be required, as in local suppurating abscess, general septicaemia, acute pneumonia, &c., there is an active proliferation of the myelocytes to form the polymorpho-nuclear leucocytes, so that we have in this condition a leucoblastic transformation of the fatty marrow.

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  • Then they develop .definite fibrils which differentiate into fibrous laminae forming a zone which shuts off the abscess from the healthy tissue and so prevents the further invasion and injurious effects of the microorganism.

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  • The healing of wounds is brought about by similar processes to that seen in the evolution of an abscess.

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  • Lubarsch succeeded in inducing it merely by the subcutaneous injection of turpentine, which produces its result, it is said, by exciting an abscess.

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  • He shows no inconsiderable knowledge of anatomy in his remarkable description of inflammation and abscess of the mediastinum in his own person, and its diagnosis from common pleuritis as well as from abscess and dropsy of the pericardium.

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  • But when the hepatitis is of septic origin, suppuration is likely to occur, the result being an hepatic abscess.

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  • Hepatic Abscess is especially common in persons from the East who have recently undergone an attack of dysentery.

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  • A bulging having been found, that part of the liver which apparently overlies the abscess should be stitched up to the sides of the opening made in belly-wall, and should then be explored by a hollow needle.

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  • If an hepatic abscess is injudiciously left to itself it may eventually discharge into the chest, lungs or belly, or it may establish a communication with a piece of intestine.

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  • In other cases gall-stones set up irritation in the gall-bladder which runs on to inflammation, and the gall-bladder being infected by septic germs from the intestine (bacilli coli) an abscess forms.

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  • Abscess of the Gall-bladder gives rise to a painful, tender swelling near the cartilage of the ninth rib of the right side.

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  • If the abscess is allowed to take its course, adhesions may form around it and it may burst into the intestine or on to the surface of the abdomen, a biliary fistula remaining.

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  • The presence of concretions in the gall-bladder may not only lead to the formation of abscess but also to invasion of the gall-bladder by cancer.

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  • The drug should regularly be given hypodermically, and it is important to note that if the injection be made immediately under the skin, an abscess, or considerable discomfort, may ensue.

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  • One of the severest complications of the disease is abscess of the liver, usually said to be solitary, and known as tropical abscess of the liver, but probably is more frequently multiple than is usually thought.

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  • Francois, the Ulysses resident dentist, repaired my tooth, saying the epoxy glue applied in Cape Town would have caused an abscess.

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  • He was admitted to Leeds general infirmary where he underwent surgery to remove a cerebral abscess.

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  • He developed an abscess in the ear which steadily worsened.

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  • Has the operation to remove a pilonidal abscess changed much in the last 32 years?

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  • Meningitis has been described, as has epidural abscess.

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  • Eventually he was drugged up enough for us to fly home where he spent a week in hospital having a huge back abscess drained.

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  • A water-soluble contrast enema showed contrast leaking into the abscess cavity.

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  • Surgery is sometimes needed to relieve the hydrocephalus or to drain an abscess.

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  • I have a twelve year old female llama with a bad abscess in the bone of her jaw.

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  • Typical abscess seen in a case of caseous lymphadenitis (parotid lymph node affected ).

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  • Additionally, cavities were noted on the first and second deciduous molars of one child and were associated with a dental abscess.

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  • Both had perforated at the site forming an abscess cavity.

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  • This involves having a tube placed in your abdomen to drain any pus from the abscess.

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  • This is known as a draining sinus or abscess.

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  • The resulting abscess then ruptures spontaneously leaving a painful discharging sinus.

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  • There is a risk of extradural brain abscess and lateral sinus thrombosis.

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  • It was a nightmare, especially when I developed quinsy, a type of abscess, in my right tonsil.

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  • By his researches on the migration of the white corpuscles of the blood Cohnheim, on the bases laid by Virchow, brought the processes of inflammation within the scope of the normal, seeing in them but a modification of normal processes under perturbations of relatively external incidence; even the formation of abscess was thus brought by him within the limits of perversion of processes not differing essentially from those of health; and "new formations," "plastic exudations," and other discontinuous origins of an "essential" pathology, fell into oblivion.

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  • Antibiotic treatment is usually reserved for true cellulitis, purulent wound drainage or presence of abscess.

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  • Occasionally, incisions also cause an abscess to develop which must be drained and treated to prevent further infection as well.

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  • Sometimes an infected bite can abscess and actually puff up with a growth that looks like a large pimple or boil.

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  • If you don't, the abscess will likely close up, and the bacteria still trapped inside will continue to build into another abscess.

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  • The presence of pus indicates an abscess or gum disease.

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  • It is usually a mixture of saliva and mucus, but may contain blood or pus in patients with lung abscess or other diseases of the lungs.

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  • Abscess infections, especially of bone, are difficult to treat and require long term antibiotic therapy to prevent a reoccurrence of infection.

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  • Pus is drained only if there is an abscess and usually after the child has begun antibiotic treatment.

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  • Acute or classic mastoiditis refers to acute disease following AOM and involves the development of an abscess behind the ear.

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  • Pus taken from the ear or sucked out of the abscess with a needle is sent to a laboratory so that the infecting bacteria can be identified.

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  • An abscess behind the tonsil (a peritonsillar abscess) may also occur.

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  • Any tissue or organ throughout the body may develop a pocket of infection and pus, called an abscess.

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  • If an abscess forms, the physician may perform an incision in order to drain the abscess.

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  • An abscess, a painful collection of pus occurring at the site of infection, is a rare vasectomy complication.

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  • Removing the jewelry will not clear up the infection and may result in it becoming trapped under the skin and forming a painful abscess that will need to be drained.

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  • It is no "fugitive and cloistered virtue" that Aurelius seeks to encourage; on the contrary, man must lead the "life of the social animal," must "live as on a mountain"; and "he is an abscess on the universe who withdraws and separates himself from the reason of our common nature through being displeased with the things which happen."

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  • His last days were marked by a fine serenity and calm; he died in his own house in Philadelphia on the 17th of April 1790, the immediate cause being an abscess in the lungs.

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  • Sometimes the abscess declares itself by a bulging at the surface, but if not an incision should be made through the belly-wall over the most tender spot, and a direct examination of the surface of the liver made.

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  • Abscess in the gall-bladder being suspected, an incision should be made down to it, and, its covering having been stitched to the abdominal wall, the gall-bladder should be opened and drained.

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  • At a meeting of the statesgeneral held at Orleans in the December following, the prince of Conde, after being arrested, was condemned to death, and extreme measures were being enacted against the Huguenots; but the deliberations of the Assembly were broken off, and the prince was saved from execution, by the king's somewhat sudden death, on the 5th of the month, from an abscess in the ear.

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  • But the necessity of the connexion is also apparent, unless we are to suppose that, as regards the course of universal nature, man is altogether an imperium in imperio, or rather (to adopt the forcible phrase of Marcus Aurelius) an abscess or excrescence on the nature of things.

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  • If the abscess be deeply situated in some tissue and not able to open on to a free surface so allowing the contents to be drained off, the phagocytic cells play a very prominent part in the resolution of the abscess.

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  • If before opening the gall-bladder the surface is stitched to the deepest part of the abdominal wound, the biliary fistula left as the result of the opening of the abscess will close in due course.

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