In the last hour the routine had changed; the little workers came out bearing distended bladders.

Affected animals develop a very distended bladder that becomes extremely painful and, if not relieved, may burst.

It would have been useful to include in this study the assessment of the distal ureter through a distended bladder.

By the next morning, the abdominal pain, probably caused by his hugely distended bladder, had eased.

At necropsy petechial haemorrhages were present over the mucosa of the distended bladder.

Many patients prefer examinations with the vaginal transducer becausea distended bladder is not required.

My distended bladder wasn't helping matters, but it wasn't holding me back as much as I'd feared, either.

Megacystis is a rare disease that is identified by an abnormally large or distended bladder.

If client has a distended bladder, see "Acute Urinary Retention," below, this chapter.

Therapeutic cystocentesis is typically last resort for relief, as a greatly distended bladder is more likely to rupture when punctured.

He felt as if Lake Mead filled his distended bladder, while Boulder Dam had been erected in his urethra.

The distended bladders of some of the local goat-like things were hanging from a propped-up line drying in the sun, and the smell could have been coming from them.

• Tender, distended bladder may be felt above symphysis, often reaching umbilicus (neurogenic bladder is distended but nontender)

Whether this was before or after some players decided that they couldn't port their distended bladders all the way back to the dressing room and relieve themselves in the usual way, we do not know.

The painful throat from the endotrachial tube, the overall sense of disorientation from the anesthesia, a painfully distended bladder, and, overriding all, the thundering pain from his mangled arm.

Herniation of the abdominal contents can cause functional obstruction of the urinary tract secondary to distortion of the uretero-vesicular junction or reflux because of a distended bladder.

Urinary tract abnormality such as unusually large ureters, distended bladder, accumulation and backflow of urine from the bladder to the ureters and the kidneys (vesicoureteral reflux)

So he lay snuffling and helpless, eyes stinging with tears, his distended bladder shooting sharp pains up the left side of his stomach; he could only watch the darkness of the room with open-eyed fear.

It is important for the bladder to be kept empty as a distended bladder can put pressure on the uterus and obstruct the descent of the baby and it also predisposes the mother to post-partum haemorrhage.

But think what use you could have made at Ripar of a means to communicate simply by beating on a distended bladder in a patterned code, comprehensible to somebody the other side of a mountain range: they can do that!

And in the rounds that Dr. Stone was making, wouldn't many of the diarrhetic children suffer urinary retention, wouldn't Dr. Stone have to relieve their little, [652] distended bladders, and wouldn't his catheter be proper and his method of instrumentation sound?