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Sessile animals can move via external forces (such as water currents), but are usually permanently attached to something. Organisms such as corals lay down their own substrate from which they grow. Other animals organisms grow from a solid object, such as a rock, a dead tree trunk, or a human-made object such as a buoy or ship's hull.
Accurately identifying stones, biliary strictures, and affected liver segments is crucial for the diagnosis of hepatolithiasis, as is ruling out concurrent cholangiocarcinoma. [2] Hepatolithiasis is primarily diagnosed by abdominal ultrasonography (USG) and computed tomography (CT) scans.
Such stones are thought to be the result of stones missed at the time of the cholecystectomy, as opposed to the formation of new stones. [3] The diagnosis of choledocholithiasis is suggested when the liver function blood test shows an elevation in bilirubin and serum transaminases. Other indicators include raised indicators of ampulla of vater ...
It is formed by the union of the right hepatic duct (which drains bile from the right functional lobe of the liver) and the left hepatic duct (which drains bile from the left functional lobe of the liver). [3] The duct is about 3 cm long. [4] The common hepatic duct is about 6 mm in diameter in adults, with some variation. [5]
Motile marine animals are commonly called free-swimming, [10] [11] [12] and motile non-parasitic organisms are called free-living. [13] Motility includes an organism's ability to move food through its digestive tract. There are two types of intestinal motility – peristalsis and segmentation. [14]
Tonsil stones give off an unpleasant smell due to the sulfur compounds emitted by the bacteria living on them, explains Klenoff. The smell, similar to that of rotten eggs, unfortunately leaves you ...
A liver segment is one of eight segments of the liver as described in the widely used Couinaud classification (named after Claude Couinaud) in the anatomy of the liver.This system divides the lobes of the liver into eight segments based on a transverse plane through the bifurcation of the main portal vein, [1] arranged in a clockwise manner starting from the caudate lobe.
From left to right: cholesterol stone, mixed stone, pigment stone. The composition of gallstones is affected by age, diet and ethnicity. [37] On the basis of their composition, gallstones can be divided into the following types: cholesterol stones, pigment stones, and mixed stones. [3] An ideal classification system is yet to be defined. [38]