How To Use Decubitus In A Sentence
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Pressure sores or pressure ulcers or decubitus ulcers are all probably better terms.
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Nosocomial infections (hospital induced) by MRSA are not limited to those with decubitus ulcers (bed sores).
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I've never ever had a pressure ulcer also called a "bedsore" or decubitus ulcer anywhere on my body, including my tailbone, in part because I've spent quite a bit of time lobbying on it's behalf every time I put my body into strangers' hands, lay on a hard x-ray table, or require other people's assistance in keeping it healthy.
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The operation was performed with the patient under general anesthesia and in the lateral decubitus position with a thigh tourniquet.
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The semi-recumbent position held sway in Europe before the time of the obstetric chair, and after a period of great popularity soon disappeared, although its traces remained, especially in the slowly progressing country districts, until the last thirty or forty years, when it finally yielded completely to the dorsal decubitus, which is now almost universal among civilized people.
Labor Among Primitive Peoples
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That is just too precious: ‘dr’ attempting to lecture about decubitus ulcers without having an understanding of the subject. [ 'dr' is now furiously googling wikipedia to prove 'yes he does know'].
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This technology has been applied to many different types of wounds, including chronic radiation ulcers, donor site wounds (the site where a skin graft has been taken from to be used on a wound at a different location), chronic ulcers in diabetics, pressure wounds (such as decubitus ulcers from when a patient who cannot move on their own may lay on one part of their body and have pressure between their bones and the surface they lie on cause a wound), traumatic and surgical wounds, certain abdominal wounds, as well as many others.
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The external autopsy examination revealed anasarca with ascites, jaundice, diffuse petechiae and purpura, and a presacral decubitus ulcer.
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They could develop decubitus ulcers that may not heal and could kill them.
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If the patient cannot sit up, order a left lateral decubitus.
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So, I couldn't tell them about the painful spot in my low back until it turned into the beginning of a decubitus ulcer.
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Malnutrition can lead to the development of decubitus ulcers and prevents existing decubitus ulcers from healing.
Family Member Guide to Nursing Homes
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I've never ever had a pressure ulcer also called a "bedsore" or decubitus ulcer anywhere on my body, including my tailbone, in part because I've spent quite a bit of time lobbying on it's behalf every time I put my body into strangers' hands, lay on a hard x-ray table, or require other people's assistance in keeping it healthy.
The Russian
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Over several weeks, he developed shortness of breath, wheezing, and dyspnea that was worse in the supine position and improved in the decubitus position.
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The bed essentially imitates the movements of a healthy person during sleep so bedridden patients are less likely to develop "decubitus ulcers," otherwise known as bedsores.
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When supine, the muscle is flattened and bandlike. When decubitus or prone, the sternalis muscle is mobile and may have a bulging appearance.
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The patients were positioned in the lateral decubitus position, under general anesthesia.