| enterostomal therapist | A health care specialist trained to help patients care for and adjust to their colostomy. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| enterostomy | Creation of an artificial external opening or fistula in the intestines. (12 Dec 1998) |
| enterotome | <medicine> A kind of scissors used for opening the intestinal canal, as in postmortem examinations. Origin: F. Enterotome. See Enterotomy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| enterotomy | <medicine> Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia. Origin: Gr. An intestine + to cut. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| enterotoxaemia | Disease caused by the liberation of exotoxins of clostridium perfringens in the intestines of sheep, goats, cattle, foals, and piglets. Type b enterotoxaemia in lambs is lamb dysentery; type c enterotoxaemia in mature sheep produces "struck", and in calves, lambs and piglets it produces haemorrhagic enterotoxaemia; type d enterotoxaemia in sheep and goats is pulpy-kidney disease or overeating disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| enterotoxication | A disorder resulting from absorption of the waste products of metabolism, decomposed matter from the intestine, or the products of dead and infected tissue as in gangrene. Synonym: autotoxicosis, endogenic toxicosis, enterotoxication, enterotoxism, intestinal intoxication, self-poisoning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| enterotoxigenic | Denoting an organism containing or producing a toxin specific for cells of the intestinal mucosa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli | Enterotoxigenic strain of Escherichia coli; attaches to the duodenum or proximal small intestine mucosa, where it forms heat-stable and heat-labile toxins that activate adenylate cyclase, causing wasting diarrhoea. Responsible for 40-70% of traveler's diarrhoea; chiefly water-borne via human faeces. Most important cause of diarrhoea among infants living in tropical areas. (05 Mar 2000) |
| enterotoxin | <microbiology> Group of bacterial exotoxins produced by enterobacteria and that act on the intestinal mucosa. By perturbing ion and water transport systems they induce diarrhoea. Cholera toxin is the best known example. (13 Oct 1997) |
| enterotoxins | Substances that are toxic to the intestinal tract causing vomiting, diarrhoea, etc.; most common enterotoxins are produced by bacteria. (12 Dec 1998) |
| enterotoxism | A disorder resulting from absorption of the waste products of metabolism, decomposed matter from the intestine, or the products of dead and infected tissue as in gangrene. Synonym: autotoxicosis, endogenic toxicosis, enterotoxication, enterotoxism, intestinal intoxication, self-poisoning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| enterotropic | Attracted by or affecting the intestine. Origin: entero-+ G. Tropikos, turning (05 Mar 2000) |
| enterovaginal fistula | A fistulous passage connecting the intestine and the vagina. (05 Mar 2000) |
| enterovesical fistula | A fistula connecting the intestine and the bladder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| enterovirus | <virology> A genus of Picornaviridae that preferentially replicate in the mammalian intestinal tract. It includes the polioviruses and Coxsackie viruses. (18 Nov 1997) |
| enterolith |
an intestinal stone that can form in the horse's digestive tract. Is formed much in the same way that an oyester forms a pearl; the horse gets a rock, splinter, nail, or piece of some inedible matter in his intestines. Then, to keep that matter from injuring the intestine, the horse's body forms a layer around it, then another, and another; if the stone is not passed out with manure, it will continue to grow larger until it eventually kills the horse. ...
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| enterocele |
Dropping (herniation) or bulging of the bowel into the vagina or out of the anus.
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| enteroclysis |
The injection of a nutrient or medicinal liquid into the small bowel used in radiographic examination of the small bowel.
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| enterocele |
condition caused by weakened muscles in the pelvis in which a portion of the intestines bulges into the top of the vagina.
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| Enterovirus |
A genus of RNA viruses with over 70 types identified in humans. They reproduce in the intestinal tract, and various members can cause a variety of human diseases, including poliomyelitis, aseptic meningitis, hepatitis, inflammatory heart disease, and rhinitis.
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