noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
biliary
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Thus this approach may be considered both safe and effective as a temporary measure to relieve stone related biliary obstruction .
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Otherwise, clinical signs are absent except in the occasional case of intestinal or biliary obstruction .
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Baron etal compared the value of ultrasound and computed tomography in patients with suspected biliary obstruction .
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Whether the biliary obstruction caused by sclerosing cholangitis was self limiting or brought into remission by steroid treatment is unclear.
intestinal
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Otherwise, clinical signs are absent except in the occasional case of intestinal or biliary obstruction .
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She continued to experience abdominal pain and at age 18 was admitted with absolute constipation and intestinal obstruction .
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Only four of the 42 patients with benign strictures had constipation and none had evidence of intestinal obstruction .
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In other words, all patients who presented with intestinal obstruction had malignant strictures.
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It involved another Down's baby, a girl called Alexandra, who required a life-saving operation to remove an intestinal obstruction .
■ NOUN
bowel
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She gave a two month history of symptoms typical of intermittent small bowel obstruction before requiring a limited right hemicolectomy.
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He died of a bowel obstruction .
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Small bowel obstruction continues to occur after this operation despite increasing experience with the procedure.
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At age 20 she became pregnant and the pregnancy was complicated by episodes of small and large bowel obstruction .
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Seven patients had one or more episodes of partial or complete large bowel obstruction and four others were constipated.
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All the patients carried a diagnosis of chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction based on recurrent symptoms of bowel obstruction without physical lesion.
■ VERB
cause
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Any number of vehicles trying to pick up the finishers will have great difficulty parking and will probably cause a major obstruction .
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In summary, we report a case of a retroperitoneal pancreatic pseudocyst causing distal bilateral ureteric obstruction and bilateral hydronephrosis.
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Surely this would be the ideal place to locate these stall holders - still in the town centre but not causing obstructions .
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And don't cause an obstruction .
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Rarely, the fish slip inside the mouth and can cause acute respiratory obstruction with fatal consequences.
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Melissa's heart began to thump as she peered round to see what was causing the obstruction .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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They found an obstruction in one of the major arteries leading to the brain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Charsky catapulted into a rocky obstruction after tumbling a thousand feet or so.
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Do not land behind or close to another glider or obstruction .
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He died of a bowel obstruction .
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It involved another Down's baby, a girl called Alexandra, who required a life-saving operation to remove an intestinal obstruction .
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Later we discovered she had hit some obstruction and lost an engine - hence her strange behaviour.
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More obstruction calls mean more power plays, which will lead to an increase in scoring.
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The extradition attempts on charges of obstruction of justice failed primarily because of allegations of the torture of witnesses.