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It occurs in patients with rupture of an abdominal viscus.

The viscus was found to be ruptured with severe generalised peritonitis.

The pylorus is seen as an incisure (p), and shows closure of the viscus.

This pain is typically a dull, poorly localised, viscus pain.

Viscera is the plural form of viscus, which refers to an organism's internal organs.

Propylene glycol is viscus, and would eventually gum up some parts in the loop(s), so it has fallen out of favor.

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An isolated distended loop of bowel is seen near the site of injured viscus or inflamed organ.

The stomach is a viscus within the abdominal cavity, and is covered with a lining called the visceral peritoneum.

Acute peritonitis (including hollow viscus perforation)

Then Strabo will tell that those who examined the prisoners' viscus, covering them with thin tunics, cut the right hand and consecrated it to the gods.

As described by radiological methods, mass movements define an infrequent, aborally propagated displacement of colonic contents for long distances along the viscus.

Most of the motility studies on irritable bowel syndrome patients have been conducted for brief periods of time in the very distal portions of the viscus.

Above and behind the cardiac impression is a triangular depression named the hilum, where the structures which form the root of the lung enter and leave the viscus.

In all three types the bladder contracts, but the contractions are generally not sufficient to empty the viscus completely, and residual urine is left in the bladder.

A hernia is caused by the protrusion of a viscus (in the case of groin hernias, an intraabdominal organ) through a weakness in the containing wall.

In surgical jargon, to create an anastomosis is to join together two hollow organs (viscus), usually to restore continuity after resection, or to bypass an unresectable disease process.

The right subcostal margin corresponds to the lower limit of the liver, while the right nipple is about half an inch above the upper limit of this viscus.

The generic name is derived from the Latin words malva, meaning "mallow," and viscus, which means "sticky," referring to the mucilaginous sap produced by members of the genus.

This phenomenon is a manifestation of the law of Laplace, which states that the pressure in a spherical viscus is equal to twice the wall tension divided by the radius.

'The Morbid Anatomy of the Human Brain, being Illustrations of the most frequent and important Organic Diseases to which that viscus is subject,' London, 1826.

This may cause secondary rupture in the main pancreatic duct, the peritoneum, the retroperitoneum or more often in an adjacent viscus such as duodenum, stomach or transverse colon.

Most of the data available on human colonic motility originate from investigations conducted in the most distal portions of the viscus, because of technical difficulties in reaching its proximal portions.

The most common cause is a perforated abdominal viscus, generally a perforated peptic ulcer, although any part of the bowel may perforate from a benign ulcer, tumor or abdominal trauma.