How To Use Volvulus In A Sentence
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Midsummer came, and by that time the desert was a desert no longer: it was a neat, trim-looking piece of ground with smooth walks, some small but promising crops, and a flower-border gay with geraniums, nasturtiums, sweet-peas, nemophila, and convolvulus.
Holiday Tales
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Like guinea worms, O. volvulus has no vaccine, but it does have a partial cure.
Parasite Rex
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To one side the River Seven meandered, thick with willow, purple with balsam and white with convolvulus.
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River blindness: A disease caused by Onchocerca volvulus, a parasitic nematode.
Parasite Rex
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Two of the most beautiful of these are the white convolvulus, San Graal of the hedges, and the dwale – that lurid amphora where the death's-head moth, with its weird form and wings of enchanted purples, drinks under the white light of the moon and, if it is touched, cries out like a witch in a weak, strident voice.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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When her petrified brain did make the connection, she realized that they would be hanging on a rusty nail in the shed located at the bottom of the overgrown garden, its door probably jammed shut by inches of high grass and an invasion of convolvulus, its musty interior inhabited by various large and unchecked spiders.
The Home for Broken Hearts
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•The five breeds with the highest relative proportion of death from gastrointestinal causes including parvovirus and gastric dilation and volvulus syndrome — known as bloat were Great Dane, Gordon setter, Akita, Shar-pei and Weimeraner.
Diseases that kill dogs tend to affect specific breeds
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VascuStatin Formula is a water extraction of the leaves of the herb Convolvulus arvensis, commonly known as bindweed, and is rich in proteoglycan mixture (PGM).
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One is Onchocerca volvulus, the worm that travels in black flies and causes river blindness.
Parasite Rex
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In the cemetery of Pere – Lachaise, in the vicinity of the common grave, far from the elegant quarter of that city of sepulchres, far from all the tombs of fancy which display in the presence of eternity all the hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, beneath a great yew tree over which climbs the wild convolvulus, amid dandelions and mosses, there lies a stone.
Les Miserables
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In the Autumn, when the convolvulus has taken over suburban Australian gardens, strangling trees, insinuating itself into garden sheds, creeping across garden paths, the very name declares its despised status as a weed.
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There are a number of dramatic scenes on operating tables in Cutting for Stone: the twins 'births, Thomas Stone amputating his own finger, Ghosh untwisting Colonel Mebratu's volvulus, the liver transplant, etc.
Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese: Questions
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A high rate of repopulation of skin with microfilariae will allow parasite transmission, possibly with ivermectin-resistant O. volvulus which could eventually lead to recrudescence of the disease.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The filarial worms have essentially the same life cycle as O. volvulus, and the same susceptibility to ivermectin.
Parasite Rex
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Some other plants had survived - a small convolvulus, golden lamium and creeping geranium were beginning to sprout so these were potted up.
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HIRTELLA of Miquel, a hairy shrub with pinnated leaves; EVOLVULUS
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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The wide verges were tangled with the trumpets of field convolvulus, a smaller version of the plant that plays so loud in the hedges at this time of the year.
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After the surgeon found Chase's intestines were full of dying tissue, due to a disease called volvulus, his parents were told he might survive with an intestinal transplant.
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As for these latter, they flashed about them here, there, and everywhere, now glittering in the sunshine, now looking dull and plum-coloured as they hovered on hazy wings before the long trumpet blossoms of some convolvulus-like flower whose twiny stems trailed over or wrapped the lower growth.
Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco
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A volvulus was noted at the level of the terminal ileum, caused by adhesions from the cecum to the small bowel, forming a closed loop obstruction that was causing some bowel wall congestion.
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Plants with leaves adapted to coping in hotter climes, the likes of rosemary, lavender, artemisias and Convolvulus cneorum, will have to be planted in well-drained soils if they are not to suffer from waterlogging in wet winters.
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Objective To study the clinical effect on patientsacute volvulus in early diagnosis by using dynamic radiograph.
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One is a convolvulus called Goat's Foot Morning Glory, the other is Beach Bean, from the pea family and named for its huge woody seeds.
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If extensive bowel is ischemic because of the volvulus, the bowel is untwisted and simply reduced into the abdominal cavity, and the abdominal wound is closed.
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They came home with new wealth untold every day -- of ipomoea, convolvulus, passion-flowers, and orchids.
The Brick Moon, and Other Stories
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Additional procedures can be done, such as gastrotomy, which obviates the NG tube and decreases the risk of recurrent volvulus.
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Recurrent volvulus is rare, but a second bowel obstruction due to adhesions (scar tissue build-up after any type of abdominal surgery) could occur later.
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To one side the River Seven meandered, thick with willow, purple with balsam and white with convolvulus.
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Volvulus classically appears on the upper GI as a spiral corkscrew of the duodenum.
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Everything dropped from her — clouds, dress, basket, diamond — all that one had called the creeper and convolvulus.
A Haunted House, and other short stories
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The yellow flower spikes of a dwarf mullein or verbascum and the delicate white and pink trumpets of a creeping convolvulus defied my attempts at precise identification but were delightful nevertheless.
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A magnificent convolvulus hawk moth was spotted by the Suffolk lepidopterists gliding in downriver along their bank.
Wildwood
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Parasitologists have discovered that ivermectin actually works effectively against many other parasites, including O. volvulus.
Parasite Rex
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When the creature I now watched hovered before the blossom of a convolvulus whose calyx it tapped with a tongue shaped like a glass probe, it was almost invisible.
Commonplace
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The disease, also called onchocerciasis, is caused by a parasitic worm, Onchocerca volvulus, whose larvae are transmitted in the bite of the black fly, which breeds by fast-flowing streams.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Constipation is a serious problem, because patients with PD are particularly susceptible to impaction, obstruction, volvulus, and paralytic ileus.
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Others fondled in their arms gazelles or savage whelps of wolves, and suckled them-young mothers these with babes at home, whose breasts were still full of milk; crowns they wore of ivy or of oak or blossoming convolvulus.
The Bacchantes
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Much of the interest centers on two prescient suggestions made by the two scientists in their 1977 paper on Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial worm that causes onchocerciasis.
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Some other plants had survived, a small convolvulus, golden lamium and creeping geranium were beginning to sprout so these were potted up but the lining fell to bits when the basket was emptied.
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Look at those hollyhocks, like pyramids of roses; those garlands of the convolvulus major of all colours, hanging around that tall pole, like the wreathy hop-bine; those magnificent dusky cloves, breathing of the Spice Islands; those flaunting double dahlias; those splendid scarlet geraniums, and those fierce and warlike flowers the tiger-lilies.
Our Village
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Called Onchocerca volvulus, these animals, male and female, spend their ten-year-long lives in these nodules, making thousands of babies.
Parasite Rex
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Awareness of the possibility of a volvulus is perhaps the most important factor in accurate diagnosis.
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Causes of intestinal obstruction include volvulus, intussusception, incarcerated hernia, and postoperative adhesions.
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Some other plants had survived, a small convolvulus, golden lamium and creeping geranium were beginning to sprout so these were potted up but the lining fell to bits when the basket was emptied.
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•The five breeds with the highest relative proportion of death from gastrointestinal causes including parvovirus and gastric dilation and volvulus syndrome — known as bloat were Great Dane, Gordon setter, Akita, Shar-pei and Weimeraner.
Diseases that kill dogs tend to affect specific breeds
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Wolbachia are bacterial symbionts of the major human filarias, including Onchocerca volvulus, the parasitic nematode that causes onchocerciasis.
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My father tore his way through the thicket to the tool-shed, dragged forth a hook and positively hacked a path back to my mother, barely in time to release her from the coils of a major convolvulus (_ipomoea purpurea) which had her fast by the ankles.
Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756
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Complications can include volvulus, intestinal obstruction, infarction, perforation, and hemorrhage.
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O Thebes, nurse of Semele! crown thyself with ivy; burst forth, burst forth with blossoms fair of green convolvulus, and with the boughs of oak and pine join in the Bacchic revelry; dor; - thy coat of dappled fawn-skin, decking it with tufts of silvered hair; with reverent hand the sportive wand now wield.
The Bacchantes
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Postoperatively, the patient had a distal intestinal obstruction requiring reduction of a volvulus.
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Although sigmoid volvulus can resolve spontaneously, nonoperative management begins with fluid resuscitation and antibiotics, followed by barium enema detorsion of the sigmoid.
