stenosed
IPA: stˈɛnoʊst
adjective
- Affected by stenosis.
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Examples of "stenosed" in Sentences
- His spine is not the only part of this body stenosed.
- The left bronchus may be stenosed by pressure from a hypertrophied cardiac auricle.
- "Rough voice" since birth, but larynx never examined until stenosed after diphtheria.
- Follow-up was difficult, the patient was seen only some moths later with a stenosed vagina and lower abdominal pain.
- If free breathing cannot be obtained when the cannula is corked, the larynx is stenosed, and special work will be required to remove the tube.
- In severely stenosed tuberculous larynges a tracheotomy should first be done, for though the reaction is slight it might be sufficient to close a narrowed glottis.
- Mortality from the endoscopic procedure is almost nil, and if gastrostomy is done early in the tightly stenosed cases, ultimate cure may be confidently expected with careful though prolonged treatment.
- _Bouginage_ of a malignant esophagus to increase temporarily the size of the stenosed lumen is of questionable advisability, and is attended with the great risk of perforating the weakened esophageal wall.
- It will be seen that anatomically the pulsion diverticulum has its origin in the pharynx; the symptoms, however, are referable to the esophagus and the subdiverticular esophagus is stenosed by compression of the pouch; therefore, it is properly classified as an esophageal disease.
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