| meconium peritonitis | Peritonitis caused by intestinal perforation in the foetus or newborn; associated with congenital obstruction or fibrocystic disease of the pancreas. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| meconium | <paediatrics> The first stools of the newborn. Typically thick, viscous, sticky and dark green. Usually sterile and odourless. (27 Sep 1997) |
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| meconium aspiration | Syndrome caused by sucking of thick meconium into the lungs, usually by term or post-term infants (often small for gestational age) either in utero or with first breath. The resultant small airway obstruction may produce respiratory distress, tachypnea, cyanosis, pneumothorax, and/or pneumomediastinum. (12 Dec 1998) |
| meconium aspiration syndrome | <radiology> Intra-uterine foetal distress most likely to be defecation of meconium, term and post-term neonates, not preemies, not kids of diabetic moms, diffuse HYPERaeration, pulmonary interstitial emphysema (PIE), pnuemomediastinum and non-tension ptx in 33%, patchy atelectasis and consolidation, lung disease usually resolves spontaneously, morbidity due to intrauterine cerebral anoxia (12 Dec 1998) |
| meconium blockage syndrome | <syndrome> Low intestinal obstruction in newborn infants resulting from blockage of meconium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| meconium ileus | <radiology> Obstructed bowel due to impacted, tenacious meconium, no air-fluid levels (probably due to adherent bowel contents) Differential diagnosis: ileal atresia, Hirschsprung disease, anal atresia associated with cystic fibrosis (12 Dec 1998) |
| meconium plug | <radiology> Functional colonic inertia, Diagnosis/Treatment: Gastrografin enema (Differential diagnosis: Hirschsprung disease, meconium ileus), F/U with another enema for confirmation, associated with maternal diabetes (12 Dec 1998) |
| adhesive peritonitis | A form of peritonitis in which a fibrinous exudate occurs, matting together the intestines and various other organs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| benign paroxysmal peritonitis | familial paroxysmal polyserositis |
| bile peritonitis | <surgery> Inflammation of the peritoneum which is cause by the escape of bile into the peritoneal cavity. (27 Sep 1997) |
| biliary peritonitis | <surgery> Inflammation of the peritoneum which is cause by the escape of bile into the peritoneal cavity. (27 Sep 1997) |
| gas peritonitis | Inflammation of the peritoneum accompanied by an intraperitoneal accumulation of gas. (05 Mar 2000) |
| general peritonitis | Peritonitis throughout the peritoneal cavity. Synonym: diffuse peritonitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pelvic peritonitis | Generalised inflammation of the peritoneum surrounding the uterus and fallopian tubes. Synonym: pelvioperitonitis, pelviperitonitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chemical peritonitis | Peritonitis due to the escape of bile, contents of the gastrointestinal tract, or pancreatic juice into the peritoneal cavity; the contents of the fluid causes chemical injury, shock, and peritoneal exudation prior to occurrence of any associated infection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| periodic peritonitis | familial paroxysmal polyserositis |