OBSTRUCTION


Meaning of OBSTRUCTION in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

biliary

Thus this approach may be considered both safe and effective as a temporary measure to relieve stone related biliary obstruction .

Otherwise, clinical signs are absent except in the occasional case of intestinal or biliary obstruction .

Baron etal compared the value of ultrasound and computed tomography in patients with suspected biliary obstruction .

Whether the biliary obstruction caused by sclerosing cholangitis was self limiting or brought into remission by steroid treatment is unclear.

intestinal

Otherwise, clinical signs are absent except in the occasional case of intestinal or biliary obstruction .

She continued to experience abdominal pain and at age 18 was admitted with absolute constipation and intestinal obstruction .

Only four of the 42 patients with benign strictures had constipation and none had evidence of intestinal obstruction .

In other words, all patients who presented with intestinal obstruction had malignant strictures.

It involved another Down's baby, a girl called Alexandra, who required a life-saving operation to remove an intestinal obstruction .

■ NOUN

bowel

She gave a two month history of symptoms typical of intermittent small bowel obstruction before requiring a limited right hemicolectomy.

He died of a bowel obstruction .

Small bowel obstruction continues to occur after this operation despite increasing experience with the procedure.

At age 20 she became pregnant and the pregnancy was complicated by episodes of small and large bowel obstruction .

Seven patients had one or more episodes of partial or complete large bowel obstruction and four others were constipated.

All the patients carried a diagnosis of chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction based on recurrent symptoms of bowel obstruction without physical lesion.

■ VERB

cause

Any number of vehicles trying to pick up the finishers will have great difficulty parking and will probably cause a major obstruction .

In summary, we report a case of a retroperitoneal pancreatic pseudocyst causing distal bilateral ureteric obstruction and bilateral hydronephrosis.

Surely this would be the ideal place to locate these stall holders - still in the town centre but not causing obstructions .

And don't cause an obstruction .

Rarely, the fish slip inside the mouth and can cause acute respiratory obstruction with fatal consequences.

Melissa's heart began to thump as she peered round to see what was causing the obstruction .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

They found an obstruction in one of the major arteries leading to the brain.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Charsky catapulted into a rocky obstruction after tumbling a thousand feet or so.

Do not land behind or close to another glider or obstruction .

He died of a bowel obstruction .

It involved another Down's baby, a girl called Alexandra, who required a life-saving operation to remove an intestinal obstruction .

Later we discovered she had hit some obstruction and lost an engine - hence her strange behaviour.

More obstruction calls mean more power plays, which will lead to an increase in scoring.

The extradition attempts on charges of obstruction of justice failed primarily because of allegations of the torture of witnesses.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.