How To Use Thoracic duct In A Sentence
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As demonstrated in the literature, lymphangiography combined with CT is the standard procedure for detecting the obstruction site of the thoracic duct or a tumor mass in the mediastinal area.
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The receptacle of the chyle is a membranous bag, about two thirds of an inch long, and one third of an inch wide, at its superior part it is contracted into a slender membranous pipe, called the thoracic duct, because its course is principally through the thorax; it passes between the aorta and the vena azygos, then obliquely over the oesophagus, and great curvature of the aorta, and continuing its course towards the internal jugular vein, it enters the left subclavian vein on its superior part.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
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A case of this kind was seen in 1895 at the Jefferson Medical College Hospital, Philadelphia, in which the chyluria was due to a communication between the bladder and the thoracic duct.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Materials and Methods LECs were taken from the pig thoracic duct.
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Philadelphia, in which the chyluria was due to a communication between the bladder and the thoracic duct.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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The use of these vessels is to absorb the fluid part of the digested aliment, called chyle, and convey it into the receptacle of the chyle, that it may be thence carried through the thoracic duct into the blood.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
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At this latter situation it is in immediate contact with the posterior thick part of the left lung; whilst on its right are placed, L, the thoracic duct; I, the oesophagus; K, the vena azygos, and the vertebral column.
Surgical Anatomy
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Two to four liters of chyle are transported through the thoracic duct each day.
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Objective: To explore lymphatic recycle of thoracic duct and the mechanisms of tumor metastasis through left supraclavicular lymph nodes.
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With this patient, the images of the communication between the pericardium and the thoracic duct could be more clearly identified, due to improvements in computerizing techniques.
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The thoracic duct was identified, lying between the right azygous vein and the descending aorta just in front of the spine.