adhesions

PID usually causes blocked fallopian tubes or scarring, called adhesions, surrounding the ovaries or fallopian tubes.

A Baby at Last! Mark L. Fuerst 2010

He had adhesions, which is in his intestines, which eventually is what he succumbed to a couple of years ago.

CNN Transcript May 3, 2007 2007

This pain can becaused by tears and scarring (known as adhesions) in the ligaments that support the uterus (caused by obstetrical mismanagement during childbirth, a botched abortion, pelvic surgery, or violent intercourse); infections of the cervix, uterus, and tubes (such as pelvic inflammatory disease—the end result of untreated sexually transmitted infection in many women); endometriosis; cysts or tumors on the ovaries; or a vagina that may have shortened with age.

OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

This may then terminate in new formations, such as adhesions, fibrous thickenings and bony enlargements.

Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

Permanent defects in the skull are chiefly injurious if they are accompanied by lesions of the underlying dura, such as adhesions to the brain; large gaps may cause giddiness on stooping, or on forcible expiration, as in blowing the nose or playing a wind instrument.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

He said it was a streptococcal infection Strep B that had created adhesions and that I could forget about having children.

Judith Acosta: A Personal Case for Classical Homeopathy, Part I Judith Acosta 2011

I find the more difficult women to counsel are those having a hysterectomy for endometriosis with ovarian involvement, or for pelvic abscess or adhesions trapping a normal ovary and causing severe pain.

Ovaries - If they're Normal, Leave them Alone aka TBTAM 2009

He said it was a streptococcal infection Strep B that had created adhesions and that I could forget about having children.

Judith Acosta: A Personal Case for Classical Homeopathy, Part I Judith Acosta 2011

In quick succession, he snipped the adhesions from the colon, manually aspirated the bladder, while providing a running commentary into the microphone for the group watching above in the theater.

Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

Charlie moved the scope, checking for adhesions, and finding none, moved on.

Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011