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THORACIC DUCT [5 records]

Record 1 2008-08-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgical Instruments
DEF

A lightweight, ratchet-handled hemostat with the blades curved sharply downwards near their tip.

CONT

[Mixter forceps] are used primarily in general and vascular surgery. [They] are helpful in placing sutures behind or around a vessel or duct. They are used secondarily for the dissection of tissue. All Mixter forceps, artery or hemostatic forceps, thoracic or grasping forceps, gall stone forceps and gall duct forceps) are right angle [forceps].

OBS

In medical eponyms, the possessive form, such as in "Mixter’s forceps" (Samuel Jason Mixter, American neurological surgeon) often disappears over the years. For that reason, the written forms "Mixter’s forceps", and "Mixter’s clamp" are no longer found.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments chirurgicaux

Spanish

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Record 2 2008-07-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgical Instruments
OBS

Numerous surgical instruments bear the name of Frank H. Lahey, U. S. surgeon(1880-1935) : Lahey bag; Lahey carrier; Lahey catheter; Lahey clamp; Lahey dissecting scissors; Lahey drain; Lahey forceps; Lahey gall duct forceps; Lahey goiter tenaculum; Lahey gouge; Lahey hemostatic forceps; Lahey hook; Lahey ligature carrier; Lahey needle; Lahey osteotome; Lahey scissors; Lahey score; Lahey tenaculum; Lahey thoracic clamp; Lahey thoracic forceps; Lahey thyroid retractor; Lahey thyroid scissors; Lahey trephine; Lahey tube; etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments chirurgicaux

Spanish

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Record 3 2001-07-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lymphatic System
CONT

... eventually large lymph duct(the thoracic duct and right lymphatic duct) empty into the right and left subclavian veins.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système lymphatique
CONT

[...] ce liquide [lymphe] pénètre dans un système de vaisseaux de petit calibre, bosselés, multi-valvulés, les canaux lymphatiques.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistema linfático
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Record 4 1993-05-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lymphatic System
DEF

A progressive disorder of women of child-bearing age, marked by nodular and diffuse interstitial proliferation of smooth muscle in the lungs, lymph nodes, and thoracic duct.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système lymphatique

Spanish

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Record 5 1993-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Muscles and Tendons
DEF

A growth composed of bundles of smooth muscle tissue about cavernous or slitlike, endothelium-lined lymph spaces. Aggregates of lymphocytes may be found in association with the smooth muscle tissue.

OBS

The tumor has been observed only in the mediastinum, retroperitoneum in close association with the thoracic duct and its tributaries.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Muscles et tendons
CONT

Lymphangiomyome. Il possède une morphologie comparable à celle de l'angioléiomyome, mais sa signification est différente. Ses faisceaux musculaires lisses entourent des fentes et des lacunes caverneuses ainsi que des amas lymphocytaires. La lésion [...] siège dans le médiastin, la région rétropéritonéale et le bassin, en connexion avec le canal thoracique et ses gros vaisseaux. [...] Elle est anatomiquement bénigne [...] C'est sans doute un hamartome.

Spanish

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