noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
gastric
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A repeated endoscopy and biopsy specimens of the gastric lesions showed no change.
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The endoscopic aspect of the gastric lesions was clearly suggestive of malignancy in only half the patients.
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Case 1 was the only patient who had gastric lesions , all lesions since have been ileal.
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We describe a patient with Sjögren's syndrome and an uncommon gastric mucosal lesion shown to be a phlegmonous gastritis.
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The animals were anaesthetised three hours later and gastric blood flow and area of gastric lesions were measured as previously described.
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The stomach was then removed and the number of gastric lesions were counted.
mucosal
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Sucralfate was effective against all three types of mucosal lesions .
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These results suggest the involvement of platelet activating factor in the endothelin induced fibrinolytic activation and subsequently developed mucosal haemorrhagic lesion .
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We describe a patient with Sjögren's syndrome and an uncommon gastric mucosal lesion shown to be a phlegmonous gastritis.
small
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Distal small bowel lesions may also be shown by reflux at barium enema or by entering the terminal ileum at colonoscopy.
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Surgeons then insert another probe that emits high-frequency radio waves-similar to microwaves-heating the surrounding tissue and creating a small lesion .
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Enteroscopy has identified small intestinal lesions in a further 30-40% of patients in whom the first line investigations were normal.
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She made an appointment for a colposcopy, an inspection of the cervix using magnifying instruments that detects small lesions .
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Essentially, a much smaller lesion works just as well as the earlier ones but has many fewer side effects.
■ NOUN
brain
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Before this, childhood brain lesions were often due to the uncontrolled spread of bacterial infections.
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A brain lesion or injury usually causes some measure of spasticity, which is an interference factor preventing normal movement.
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Her daughter suffered a brain lesion at birth.
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But the typical psychosurgery patient and typical brain lesion created is illustrated by some one like Edmund.
skin
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These larvae do not develop, but the skin lesions usually persist for weeks.
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This may precede the skin lesions by one to two weeks and present a problem in diagnosis at that stage.
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Inconsistently there are signs of respiratory embarrassment, skin lesions and lameness.
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Last year, she had a malignant skin lesion removed from her back, but since then, things have been stable.
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The skin lesions , in contrast to those of secondary syphilis, are asymmetrical.
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Keiko suffers from skin lesions , malnutrition and a weak immune system, biologists say.
■ VERB
show
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John Miles, senior consultant neurosurgeon at Walton, told the inquest that an urgent scan showed a large rounded lesion .
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Two large studies have shown genetic lesions , including chromosome 17p, 18q, and 1p deletion, to be prognostic indicators.
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Superior mesenteric angiography may also show these lesions and angiodysplasia.
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If not, one presumes that radiography would have either shown no lesion or not contributed to management of disease.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a spinal cord lesion
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multiple lesions to the skin
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her daughter suffered a brain lesion at birth.
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I strongly agree with the authors' main point that all excised lesions should be sent for histological examination.
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Rots also increased on recipient tubers when the donors were heavily infected but were free of gangrene lesions.
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The inaccessible lesions were included in the final analysis as the aim was to evaluate this procedure according to the intention to treat.
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Thus the lesions that dermatologists see - the authors' control lesions - are perhaps different from those excised by general practitioners.
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Vomiting may occur with either migraine or lesions that increase intracranial pressure.
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What is the hidden lesion that is causing them?
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X-rays of affected joints may reveal erosions of bone and punched-out lesions representing urate deposits.