Stokes-Adams disease'

[William Stokes, Dublin physician, 1804-1878; Robert Adams, Glasgow 9SS A physician, 1794-1861.] syndrome chaxacterized by slow and occasionally irregular pulse, rertigo, syncope, pseudo epileptic convulsions, and sometimes Cheyne-Stokes respiration; the pathology is uncertain, but arteriosclerosis is almost:onstantly present. The syndrome was described by Adams in 1827 and by Stokes in 1842; also by Spens* in 1792. jk'vis's test [Barend Joseph E. Siokvis, Dutch physician, *i834.] For bile in the urine: the suspected urine is mixed with a solution of zinc icetate, the precipitate is washed in water, lii olved in aqua ammonias, and filtered; if the urine contains bile-pigments the filtrate will gradually turn a greenish blue color. I'lon [L. stolo, a shoot.] In botany, a slender shoot trailing on the ground. )ltz's opera'tion [Joseph Stoltz, French gynecologist, 1803—1896.] Pubiotomy. A I'ma, pi. sto'mat a [G. a mouth.] rninute 1.. opening or pore. j. Stigma (2a). 3. In botany, a minute aperture on the surface of i± leaf or young stem communicating with an air-space in its substance, 4. In composition, noting the mouth, or an artificial opening between two cavities or canals, or betT^een such and the surface of the body. >macace (sto-mak'a-se). Stomatocace. >mach (stum'ak) [G. stomachos, L. stomach us.'] Ventricula [BNA]; a large irregularly piriform sac between the esophagus and the small intestine, lying just beneath the diaphragm when distended; it is 10 or II inches in length and 4 to 4J inches in its greatest diameter, and has a capacity of about I quart. Its wall has four coats or tunics mucous, submucous, muscular, and peritoneal; the muscular coat is composed of three layers the fibers ruiming longitudinally in the outer, circularly in the middle, and obliquely in the inner layer, biloc'ular s., hourgla s. car'diac s., fimdus. drain-trap s., water-trap s. hour'gla s., a condition in which there is a central constriction of the wall of the stomach dividing it more or le completely into two cavities, a cardiac and a pyloric, leather-bott'le s., a condition of extreme hypertrophy of the wall of the stomach, resulting from stenosis of the pylorus or occurring in cases of cirrhosis; in the latter case there is also marked contraction of the cavity of the organ, pit of the s., epigastriimi, scrobiculus cord is, pylor'ic s., antrum, tri'fld s., a condition in which the stomach is divided by two constrictions into three pouches, wal'let s., a form of dilated stomach in which there is a general bag-like distention, the antrum and fundus being indistinguishable. water-trap s., a ptotic and dilated s., having a relatively high (though normally placed) pyloric outlet which is held up by the gastrohepatic ligament. aelditr, gastroxia, gastroxynsis, pyrosis, heartburn; hyperchlorhydria. atrophy, gastratrophia. calculus, gastrolith; bezoar (in animals), congestion, gastremia, Eastiffimia, gasterangemphraxis. m connecting the py£)ric and cardiac extremities cases 01 constriction, eas trog a str ostomy, gast roan as tomos is. dilatation, gasgastroectasia, macrogastna. diminution, trectasia eastroohthisis, gast rost enosis. disease, gas trop a thy, eastronosus, gastrosis, gastric ism; gas try pop at hi a gas try per path i a (severe) gastromycosis (due fslight) to fon Hi) ejection of matter from,; vomiting, emesis; eructation, belching (gas), examination of, gastroscopy stomachoscopy. exce ive mucous secretion, eastr'oblennorrhea, gastromyxorrhea, gastrorrhea. exce ive secretion of gastric juice, gastrochymorrhea, eastrosuccorrhea. excision, gastrectomy, gastropylofectomy. fixation of a prolapsed, gastropexy. funcweakne , gast ras then i a, gastroadynamia. tional gaseous distention, gastrotympamtes. hemorrhage.