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  • adjective beyond a city wall
  • adjective anatomy passing through the wall of an organ or any other bodily structure

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Examples

  • Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory bowel disorder characterized by transmural granulomatous inflammation involving any part of the gastrointestinal tract, from mouth to anus, in a discontinuous fashion.

    IBD resources for professionals 2010

  • When Lyle Bland went out on his last transmural journey, there'd been Green Reports flapping through the IG offices for weeks, Geheime Kommandosache, rumors coupling and uncoupling like coal-tar molecules under pressure, all to do with who was likely to take over the Slothrop surveillance, now that Bland was gone.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • Following a 15 minute equilibration period, the vessel was stretched in a stepwise manner to a standardized tension equivalent to a physiological transmural pressure

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Emilio A. Herrera et al. 2010

  • LV afterload is directly related to LV transmural pressure

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  • Cardiovascular effects decreased afterload due to decreased LV transmural pressure

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  • Histopathology revealed multiple transmural caseating granulomas with Langerhans-type giant cells and acid-fast bacilli, consistent with tuberculosis, present only in the caecum.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Devendra Jain 2010

  • Cardiovascular effects decreased afterload due to decreased LV transmural pressure

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  • "Prevalence of total coronary occlusion during the early hours of transmural myocardial infarction".

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • "Prevalence of total coronary occlusion during the early hours of transmural myocardial infarction".

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Epigastric pain experienced by 7% introduction under continuous endoscopic visualization and of patients was most likely associated with transmural se - by excluding patients with abnormal or unusually narrow rosal fastening.

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