noun
definition
An accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity, frequently symptomatic of liver disease.
Examples of ascites in a Sentence
There are a number of ways cancer in the liver can cause ascites.
He was in atrial fibrillation and had a right pleural effusion and ascites.
Blood then finds difficulty in passing through it, and, as a result, dropsy occurs in the belly (ascites).
Metastatic peritoneal adenocarcinoma is the most likely diagnosis in a patient with malignant ascites.
What William senior drank is unknown, but he died of liver enlargement and Ascites - " dropsy " .
Also after surgery, the infant may experience an abnormal collection of fluid in the abdomen, referred to as ascites, so the doctor should be consulted if the infant's stomach is distended.
If the child develops ascites (abnormal build-up of fluid in the abdomen), treatment consists of medications and alteration of the diet to maintain calorie intake but to reduce salt and fluid intake.
Complications of liver enlargement may include internal hemorrhaging, accumulation of abdominal fluid (ascites), spleen enlargement, and liver failure.
Dropsy of the serous cavities is very commonly merely part of a general anasarca, although occasionally it may be, as in the case of ascites, the sequel to an obstruction in the venous return.
The acetate and the citrate are valuable mild diuretics in Bright's disease and in feverish conditions, and by increasing the amount of urine diminish the pathological fluids in pleuritic effusion, ascites, &c. In tubal nephritis they aid the excretion of fatty casts.
Its inflammation leads to an accumulation of fluid in the abdomen (ascites).
Oliver and Audibert published some cases of cirrhosis of the liver with ascites in which they got results comparable to those of Widal.
Where the dropsical condition is more or less general the term " anasarca " is applied to it; if the tissues are infiltrated locally the term " oedema " is employed; and various names are applied, with a local significance, to dropsies of individual parts or cavities, such as " hydrothorax," " hydroperitoneum " or " ascites," " hydrocephalus," and so on.
The liquid of ascites sometimes contains chyle in abundance (hydrops lacteus), the escape having taken place from a ruptured receptaculum chyli.