retroflexed


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bent or curved backward

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However, on three occasions, the male chub clasped simultaneously a retroflexed female chub and the stoneroller ( Fig.
Our standard practice is to rapidly advance the instrument carefully through the esophagus and into the gastric cardia for a retroflexed view of the cardia and the gastroesophageal junction (figure 3, B).
On the now widely accepted assumption that Middle Chinese retroflexed dental stops go back to *Cr- clusters, Baxter reconstructs ze as *lrak (1992).
Upon withdrawal of the scope into the rectal canal, the scope tip was retroflexed such that an internal view of the dentate line was obtained.
In spite of retroflexed view of viscera in the upper abdomen, the popularity of transgastric route is apparently related to lower risk of bacterial contamination by oral orifice than with anal, vaginal or urethral approaches.
However, retroflexed TNE of the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) detected a large, sliding hiatal hernia (figure, A).
Two complications occurred--one failed entry due to a dull needle and one perforation into a retroflexed uterus, for an overall complication rate of 2%.
Since the dental /n/ was already known to be velarized, and the retroflexed (or retracted) series could readily be analyzed as pharyngealized, Malayalam seemed to have coarticulation added as a feature to some of its phonemes.
Risk factors include the time of insertion, (after the last delivery, abortion, lactation, early postpartum period), undiagnosed pregnant uterus, congenital uterine and cervical anomalies, acutely anteflexed or retroflexed uterus and former uterine operations.
Over a century later, Robert Morrison (1815-22, II.l: 32) noted that in the Nanking-based koine of his day the vowel of shi was nearly the same as that in mi but rather different in timbre from the strongly retroflexed vowel [[Chinese Text Omitted]] of [Chinese Text Omitted] as pronounced in Peking at that time.
This then accounts for kala- [less than] *ka(r)zla- [less than] *[k.sup.w]Vrs-lo- at the stage where the lateral becomes retroflexed by the preceding sibilant; this took place regardless whether the form was then *karsla- or voiced to *karzla-.(8)
Is this a retroflexed view of the endoscope entering the stomach at the esophagogastric junction?
However, in a patient with a giant goitre, tracheal intubation is essential to secure the airway during a prolonged procedure with the neck retroflexed. In this case, the remarkably large size of the goitre would also interfere with the ability to perform prompt cricothyrotomy or tracheostomy.
A few months later, based on initial DISE findings of a retroflexed epiglottis with lingual tonsil hypertrophy, he underwent an epiglottopexy with lingual tonsillectomy.
Types of uterine incarceration include incarceration of an anteflexed gravid uterus and incarceration of a retroflexed uterus with or without sacculation [8].