Example sentences for: digestive

How can you use “digestive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Although the study by Heyland and colleagues [ 9 ] suggests that gastrically fed patients may have a higher incidence of aspiration than those receiving post-pyloric feeding, other investigators have not replicated these findings [ 10 ] . In addition, many critically ill, injured, and postoperative patients have gastroparesis, which may limit their ability to tolerate gastric feeding [ 11 12 ] . Indeed, Mentec and colleagues [ 13 ] demonstrated that 79% of gastrically fed patients in a mixed medical/surgical ICU exhibited some degree of upper digestive intolerance caused by impaired gastric emptying.

  • When you see this snake swallow Jon Voight and then regurgitate him in front of Jennifer Lopez like a cat presenting a dead bird, when you see Voight give a little ironic wink before collapsing to the floor and dying in a puddle of digestive slime, you are witnessing one of those classic I-Don't-Think-So moments that help define the contemporary moviegoing experience.

  • Although Mentec and colleagues [ 13 ] demonstrated some degree of upper digestive intolerance in 79% of nasogastrically fed patients, only 4.5% were unable to tolerate continuation of gastric feeding.

  • [ 28 ] examined the association between NSAID use and risk of digestive cancers in a hospital-based case-control study.

  • Among the 16 men enrolled in the study, eight were admitted to the SICU following multiple trauma and eight following postoperative complications after major surgical procedures (vascular surgery, n = 1; cardiac surgery, n = 3; orthopedic surgery, n = 1; digestive surgery, n = 2; neurosurgery, n = 1).


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