Bezoar
A bezoar in the large intestine is known as a fecalith. A bezoar in the trachea is called a tracheobezoar. Esophageal bezoars ... The word bezoar is derived from the Persian pād-zahr (پادزهر), literally 'antidote'. The myth of the bezoar as an antidote ... The case concerned a purchaser who sued for the return of the purchase price of an allegedly fraudulent bezoar. Bezoars were ... "bezoar". Online Etymology Dictionary. Eng, Katharine; Kay, Marsha (November 2012). "Gastrointestinal Bezoars: History and ...
Bezoar ibex
The bezoar ibex (Capra aegagrus aegagrus) is a wild goat subspecies that is native to the montane forested areas in the ... The bezoar ibex, which weighs around 60kg (130lb) is known particularly for the size of its horns; it possesses the world's ... The bezoar ibex is one of the domestic goat's progenitors. Wild goats are thought to have been domesticated at least 10,000 ... The hybrid ibex is a cross between a wild bezoar ibex and a domestic goat. It occurs in several localities in one district of ...
Rapana bezoar
... is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. ... Rapana bezoar (Linnaeus, 1767). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010. v t e (Articles with ...
Persimmon
... bezoars (diospyrobezoars) often occur in epidemics in regions where the fruit is grown. Persimmons are eaten fresh, ... "Bezoars". Merck Online Medical Dictionary. Merck. 2007. Retrieved 28 November 2008. Berkow, Robert, Ed. (1992) The Merck Manual ...
Gastric balloon
DeBakey's review in 1938 showed that bezoars led to weight loss. Free floating intragastric balloons were used by Nieben and ... Nieben OG, Harboe H (1982). "Intragastric balloon as an artificial bezoar for treatment of obesity". Lancet. 319 (8265): 198- ... "Bezoars and concretions. A comprehensive review of the literature with an analysis of 303 collected cases and a presentation of ...
George Frederick Kunz
... snake stones and bezoars; charms of ancient and modern times; facts and fancies about precious stones. Each profusely ...
Rectal foreign body
Animals may have bezoars out of different materials, which may migrate to the rectum and cause problems. The Ig Nobel Prize was ... In very rare cases, seeds inside a bezoar may germinate inside the lower intestines or the rectum, causing a blockade. Type and ... Eitan A, Katz IM, Sweed Y, Bickel A (June 2007). "Fecal impaction in children: report of 53 cases of rectal seed bezoars". ... Mirza MS, Al-Wahibi K, Baloch S, Al-Qadhi H (January 2009). "Rectal bezoars due to pumpkin seeds". Tropical Doctor. 39 (1): 54- ...
Chewing gum
A bezoar is formed in the stomach when food or other foreign objects stick to gum and build up, causing intestinal blockage. As ... Milov, D. E.; Andres, J. M.; Erhart, N. A.; Bailey, D. J. (1998). "Chewing Gum Bezoars of the Gastrointestinal Tract". ... Rimar, Yossi; Babich, Jay P; Shaoul, Ron (2004). "Chewing gum bezoar". Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 59 (7): 872. doi:10.1016/ ...
List of English words of Arabic origin (A-B)
"Bezoar" in Yule & Burnell (year 1903). "Bezoard" in Devic (year 1876)(in French). See also "A Treatise on the Bezoar Stone", by ... has a survey of the chemical and mineralogical composition of the historical bezoars. "Definition of bezoar , Dictionary.com". ... Goat bezoars were recommended by medieval Arabic medical writers for use as antidotes to poisons, particularly arsenic poisons ... Today in English a bezoar is a medical and veterinary term for a ball of indigestible material that collects in the stomach and ...
Phytobezoar
When all other measures have failed, surgical gastrotomy is required to evacuate the bezoar. Generally, bezoars can be found in ... A phytobezoar is a type of bezoar, or trapped mass in the gastrointestinal system, that consists of components of indigestible ... The preferred treatment of bezoars includes different therapies and/or fragmentation to avoid surgery. Phytobezoars are most ... Plataras, C.; Sardianos, N.; Vlatakis, S.; Nikas, K. (2014). "Lentil soup bezoar". BMJ Case Reports. 2014: bcr2013203316. doi: ...
Coca-Cola
"Review of the diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal bezoars". World Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 7 (4): 336- ...
Carbonated soda treatment of phytobezoars
Bezoars consist of a solid and formed mass trapped in the gastrointestinal system, usually in the stomach. These can also form ... Three and a half liters given nasogastrically over 12 hours has been found to dissolve these bezoars. Coca-Cola has a pH of 2.6 ... In Coca-Cola, NaHCO3 has a mucolytic effect and CO2 bubbles enhance dissolving the bezoar. Coca-Cola reduces the size and ... patients given a continuous infusion of Coca-Cola by nasogastric tube over 12 hours showed complete resolution of bezoars. If ...
Calculus (medicine)
Bezoars are lumps of indigestible material in the stomach and/or intestines; most commonly, they consist of hair (in which case ... Bezoar Calculus (dental) Lithotomy Grases F.; Sanchis P.; Isern B.; Perelló J.; Costa-Bauzá A. (2007). "Uric Acid as Inducer of ... they are also known as hairballs). A bezoar may form the nidus of an enterolith. In kidney stones, calcium oxalate is the most ...
Goa stone
Like bezoar stones, Goa stones were thought to prevent disease and cure poisoning. They could be administered by shaving off ... A Goa stone or Lapis de Goa was a man-made bezoar that was considered to have medicinal and talismanic properties. Goa stones ... "Bezoar Stone with Case and Stand". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 19 November 2017. Duffin, Christopher J. (2017). " ... Coral branco, vermelho e pedra bezoar ana 2 one. Rubins, jacintos, topazios, saphiras e aljofar, ana 1 one. Esmeralda \ one. ...
Hortus Sanitatis
Bezaar - Bezoar Book V, chapter 27. ..... Borax - Toadstone Book V, chapter 30. ..... Calx - Calcium oxide Book V, chapter 33. ...
Gorochana
In medieval European medical traditions bezoars were highly esteemed as an antidote to poisoning. 'Oriental bezoars' obtained ... These were eventually consumed by various animals, which then formed bezoars within their bodies. They have different colors ... bezoar' found in cattle (Sanskrit: गो go), such as the bull, cow, ox, and yak. Its presence in the animal is reputedly ...
Guadalupe Nettel
... and Bezoar And Other Unsettling Stories (2020). The Body Where I Was Born was recognized on the Three Percent Best Translated ... ISBN 9781609805517 Bezoar And Other Unsettling Stories, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine, Seven Stories Press, 2020, ISBN ...
Bad Eggs (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Buffy is also seized by a tentacle, but she manages to grab a pick-axe which she uses to kill the mother Bezoar from the inside ... They follow a student into the basement and through the hole, where they find the host group digging up the mother Bezoar. ... Buffy decides to kill the mother Bezoar. However, Lyle and Tector arrive and attack Buffy. The fight eventually ends up in the ... Buffy must contend with vampire cowboys, the Gorch brothers and the bezoar, a prehistoric parasite. Buffy and her mother Joyce ...
Toadstone
Bezoar Biomineralization "Fossils: myths, mystery and magic". Independent UK. 12 February 2007. Archived from the original on ...
Ambroise Paré
Bezoar stone story on pages 186-7. Paré not a huguenot on page 84 Famous Surgeons in History (Articles with short description, ... The cook agreed to be poisoned, on the conditions that he would be given a bezoar straight after the poison and go free in case ... Thus Paré had proved that bezoars could not cure all poisons. Paré's writings further include the results of his methodical ... Ambroise Paré described an experiment to test the properties of bezoar stones. At the time, the stones were commonly believed ...
Cyranides
The Cyranides devotes a chapter to the healing powers of the water snake; its bezoar is used to cure dropsy. Fish gall is ...
List of English words of Persian origin
http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com "bezoar", OED "bezoar." Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam ...
Opuntia ficus-indica
Eitan, Arie; Bickel, Amitai; Katz, Israel M. (November 2006). "Fecal Impaction in Adults: Report of 30 Cases of Seed Bezoars in ... report of 53 cases of rectal seed bezoars". Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 42 (6): 1114-1117. doi:10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2007.01.048 ...
Sucralfate
Serious side effects may include bezoar formation and encephalopathy. Use appears to be safe in pregnancy and breastfeeding. ...
Wild goat
Akhmedov, E. G.; Yarovenko, Y. A.; Nasrullaev, N. I.; Babaev, E. A.; Akhmedov, S. G. (2009). "Conservation of the Bezoar Goat ... The following wild goat subspecies are considered valid taxa:[citation needed] Bezoar ibex C. a. aegagrus Sindh ibex C. a. ... and the Bezoar Goat (Capra aegagrus Erxleben) in Azerbaijan". In Zazanashvili, N.; Mallon, D. (eds.). Status and Protection of ... and Bezoar Goat (Capra aegagrus Erxleben) in Armenia". In Zazanashvili, N.; Mallon, D. (eds.). Status and Protection of ...
List of mammals of the United States
Bezoar ibex - free-ranging: Florida Mountains near Deming New Mexico. Blackbuck - free ranging. Species listed in Mammal ... VU Bezoar ibex, C. a. aegagrus (I) LC Siberian ibex, C. sibirica (I) NT Himalayan tahr, H. jemlahicus (I) NT Subfamily: ...
List of mammals of North America
Bezoar ibex - free-ranging: Florida Mountains near Deming New Mexico. Gemsbok - free ranging. Chital - free-ranging. Red deer, ... LC Bezoar ibex, Capra aegagrus aegagrus (I) LC Siberian ibex, Capra sibirica (I) NT Gemsbok, Oryx gazella (I) LC Chital, Axis ...
Enterolith
Improper use of magnesium oxide as a long-term laxative has been reported to cause enteroliths and/or medication bezoars. Most ... 1996). "Small bowel obstruction caused by a medication bezoar: report of a case". Surgery Today. 26 (1): 68-70. doi:10.1007/ ... Acid-base physiology Bezoar Blue MG (April 1979). "Enteroliths in horses--a retrospective study of 30 cases". Equine Veterinary ...
Psyllium
Abou Azar S, Wehbe MR, Jamali S, Hallal A (2017). "Small Bowel Obstruction Secondary to a Metamucil Bezoar: Case Report and ... Psyllium can cause bowel obstructions or bezoars, if taken without adequate amounts of water. Gas or stomach bloating may also ...
Calculus bovis
The bezoars may also be surgically removed by veterinarians when working cattle become ill. In western countries, they are ... Calculus bovis, niu-huang (牛黃) or ox bezoars are dried gallstones of cattle used in Chinese herbology. In China and Japan it ... Ingredients, AN KUNG NIU HUANG WAN (Bezoar Chest Functioning Pills), Beijing Tong Ren Tang, Peking, China. 1980. PPRC 2015 ...