Medical

fluid

Also found in: Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
(redirected from peritoneal fluid)

flu·id

(flū'id),
1. A nonsolid substance (that is, liquid or gas) that tends to flow or conform to the shape of the container in which it is kept.
2. Consisting of particles or distinct entities that can readily change their relative positions, that is, tending to move or capable of flowing.
[L. fluidus, fr. fluo, to flow]
Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

fluid

A liquid or gas which conforms to the shape of its container. See Body fluid, Cerebrospinal fluid, Pericardial fluid.
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

flu·id

(flū'id)
1. A nonsolid substance, such as a liquid or gas, which tends to flow or conform to the shape of the container.
2. Consisting of particles or distinct entities that can readily change their relative positions; tending to move or capable of flowing.
[L. fluidus, fr. fluo, to flow]
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

flu·id

(flū'id)
A nonsolid substance (i.e., liquid or gas) that tends to flow or conform to the shape of the container in which it is kept.
[L. fluidus, fr. fluo, to flow]
Medical Dictionary for the Dental Professions © Farlex 2012

Patient discussion about fluid

Q. What causes fluid to leak from the legs?

A. It may be caused by chronic venous insufficiency - when the veins of your leg are not competent enough to drain the blood from the legs. It causes accumulation of blood in your legs, and the elevated pressure of the blood causes the water in the blood to leak out of the blood vessels.

You may read more here: www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000203.htm

More discussions about fluid
This content is provided by iMedix and is subject to iMedix Terms. The Questions and Answers are not endorsed or recommended and are made available by patients, not doctors.
Mentioned in
References in periodicals archive
Cornillie, "CA-125 and placental protein 14 concentrations in plasma and peritoneal fluid of women with deeply infiltrating pelvic endometriosis," Fertility and Sterility, vol.
Several days after discharge, 16S ribosome testing revealed Mycoplasma hominis RNA within the peritoneal fluid. Her outpatient antibiotic was changed to oral doxycycline 100 mg twice daily for three months.
Figure 1 shows a weak, yet statistically significant, correlation between plasma D-dimers and the peritoneal fluid neutrophil count (r = 0.4783; [r.sup.2] = 0.2287; p = 0.00007).
These organ suspensions and samples of blood and peritoneal fluid were subjected to tenfold serial dilutions, and 0.1 ml aliquots were plated onto selective Listeria agar (OXOID).
(8) Pathologic accumulation of peritoneal fluid results in ascites fluid (obtained through peritoneocentesis) that is generally submitted to the laboratory for evaluation/ The amount of peritoneal fluid normally present is 5mL to 20mL, but may be as much as 50mL, particularly in women during ovulation.
Despite having a high peritoneal fluid cell count, he did not have any cardinal symptoms of infection.
(3.) Zhe X, Tian X, Cheng L, Wang T: Effects of peritoneal resting on peritoneal fluid transport kinetics.
Inflammatory mediators such as interleukin (IL) 1, IL-6, IL-8, human monocyte chemoattractant protein 1, RANTES (Regulated on Activation Normal T cell Expressed and Secreted), and tumor necrosis factor alpha are found in significantly higher concentrations in the peritoneal fluid of women with endometriosis, compared with women without endometriosis.
[5] published the Mannheim peritonitis index (MPI) [Table 1] based on the analysis of 17 possible risks factors in patients with peritonitis; only 8 factors were found to be truly relevant to prognosis (age, sex, organ failure, cancer, duration of peritonitis, involvement of colon, extension of spread, and character of peritoneal fluid) and were finally included in the index.
In the article, the researchers address the limitations of current paper and flexible material-based platforms and explain how they have integrated cellulose paper and flexible polyester films as new diagnostic tools to detect bioagents in whole blood, serum and peritoneal fluid. They employed three different paper and flexible material-based platforms incorporated with electrical and optical sensing modalities.
Copyright © 2003-2025 Farlex, Inc Disclaimer
All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.