Fistula vs Abscess - What's the difference?
fistula | abscess |
(medicine) An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect.
* 1903 , William Rice Pryor, Gynæcology , page 113
* 1917 , Louis Adolph Merillat, Fistula of the Withers and Poll-Evil , page 5
* 1998', Scott Fisher, ''Enterocutaneous '''Fistulas'' , in Theodore J. Saclarides, Keith W. Millikan (editors), ''Common Surgical Diseases: An Algorithmic Approach to Problem Solving ,
* 2008 , Sylvia Escott-Stump, Nutrition and Diagnosis-related Care , page 405
(rare) A tube, a pipe, or a hole.
A cavity caused by tissue destruction, usually because of infection, filled with pus and surrounded by inflamed tissue.
To form a pus filled cavity typically from an infection.
As nouns the difference between fistula and abscess
is that fistula is (medicine) an abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect while abscess is a cavity caused by tissue destruction, usually because of infection, filled with pus and surrounded by inflamed tissue .As a verb abscess is
to form a pus filled cavity typically from an infection.fistula
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Alternative forms
* fistuleNoun
- Small fistulæ are to be closed bilaterally in an antero-posterior line
- There are several reasons why a manual on this disease should be a part of the veterinary literature of the day, the chief one being that fistula of the withers is a very prevalent disease of horses and thus exacts a big toll from the horse industry.
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- Fistulas' are abnormal communications between two epithelialized surfaces. The causes of enterocutaneous '''fistulas''' can be remembered using the mnemonic FRIEND: '''F'''oreign body, '''R'''adiation, '''I'''nflammation/Infection/Inflammatory bowel disease, '''E'''pithelialization, '''N'''eoplasm, and '''D'''istal obstruction. Fifteen to twenty-five percent of enterocutaneous ' fistulas arise spontaneously as in, for example, Crohn's disease or cancer.
- An intestinal fistula is an unwanted pathway from intestines to other organs (e.g., the bladder).