The normal movements of the colon in man
The normal movements of the colon in man
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人体结肠的正常运动
DOI:
10.1113/jphysiol.1913.sp001613
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发表时间:
1913
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通讯作者:
A. Newton
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作者:
A. Hertz;A. Newton
THE researches carried out during the last few years by means of the X-rays on the stomach and small intestines have led to a clear understanding of their motor functions. The nature of the normal movements of the colon has, however, until recently retnained a complete mystery. Whenever the shadow of the colon was examined after a bismuith meal, it was found to be completely immobile, so that it was assumed that the progress of its contents along the colon depended upon peristaltic waves, which were too slow to be observed. There were, however, two exceptions. Early in 1907 Hertz and Schlesinger' watched the process of defaecation and saw the contents of the cocum and ascending colon move bodily into the transverse colon, whilst everything beyond the splenic flexure was carried through the pelvic colon and rectum and evacuated. In April, 1908, one of us2 had an opportunity of watching for several minutes the movements of the contents of the colon of a woman during an attack of severe colic, due to obstruction produced by cancer of the pelvi-rectal flexure. At one moment the caecum and the transverse colon were seen and the ascending colon was invisible; then the shadow suddenly rushed towards the obstruction at the pelvi-rectal flexure, leaving the coacum and transverse colon empty; the next moment the bismuth had rushed back to the caecum again. Whilst this was going on, different parts of the colon were felt to rise up and contract into hard cords, the phenomenon being what Nothnagel described as intestinal stiffening. Not more than a second or two was occupied in the passage of the faeces from one end of the colon to the other, and no definite peristaltic or antiperistaltic waves were seen. The explanation then offered was that the obstruction