Pictures from Google Image Search

duodenal ulcer

A Dictionary of Nursing | 2008 | © A Dictionary of Nursing 2008, originally published by Oxford University Press 2008. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

duodenal ulcer (DU) (dew-ŏ-deen-ăl) n. an ulcer in the duodenum, caused by the action of acid and pepsin on the duodenal lining (mucosa) of a susceptible individual. Symptoms include pain in the upper abdomen and vomiting; complications include bleeding (see haematemesis), perforation, and obstruction due to scarring (see pyloric stenosis). See also Helicobacter.

Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.

  • MLA
  • Chicago
  • APA

"duodenal ulcer." A Dictionary of Nursing. Oxford University Press. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Dec. 2009 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

"duodenal ulcer." A Dictionary of Nursing. Oxford University Press. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (December 1, 2009). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O62-duodenalulcer.html

"duodenal ulcer." A Dictionary of Nursing. Oxford University Press. 2008. Retrieved December 01, 2009 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O62-duodenalulcer.html

Learn more about citation styles

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Mary Astell: Theorist of Freedom from Domination.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; Patricia Springborg. Mary Astell: Theorist of Freedom from...women. Springborg suggests Astell attempted to create such...Elizabeth Elstob and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Much...Springborg's prior research on Astell has examined her critique...
The Eloquence of Mary Astell
Magazine article from: Composition Studies; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; The Eloquence of Mary Astell, by Christine Mason Sutherland. Calgary...2005. 202 pp. The writings of Mary Astell present a unique but, until recently...part organization of The Eloquence of Mary Astell allows readers to join Sutherland...
Gendering the Modern: Mary Astell's Feminist Historiography
Magazine article from: The Eighteenth Century; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Enlightenment.'"1 For Pateman, Mary Astell serves as the "prime example...century later in the works of Mary Wollstonecraft, providing...grounded in Phusis), Astell's feminism was still...Within the contours of Astell's own set of political...
Mary Astell (1666-1731), critic of Locke. (John Locke)
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 9/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...commissioned Tory political pamphleteer, Mary Astell. Contemporaneous with Charles Leslie...usually credited with the honor, Astell had diagnosed Locke's political...wrong person in the wrong place. Astell correctly saw that Locke's political...
The Eloquence Of Mary Astell.(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch; 5/1/2006; 511 words ; The Eloquence Of Mary Astell Christine Mason Sutherland University...Calgary) presents The Eloquence Of Mary Astell, a seminal and scholarly study of the role that women in general, and Mary Astell (1666-1731) in particular, have...
Mary Astell and John Norris: Letters Concerning the Love of God.(RELIGION)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2005; 521 words ; ...BV4817 2004-009636 0-7546-0586-8 Mary Astell and John Norris; letters concerning the love of God. Astell, Mary. Ed. by E. Derek Taylor and...well known aspect of the thought of Mary Astell, whose Reflections upon marriage of 1700...
The eloquence of Mary Astell.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2006; 422 words ; 1552381536 The eloquence of Mary Astell. Sutherland, Christine Mason. Univ. of Calgary Press 2005 202...says Sutherland (communications and culture, U. of Calgary), Astell (1668-1731) is known best as a feminist. Writing mainly for...
Astell, Mary and John Norris, Letters Concerning the Love of God.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Parergon; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; Astell, Mary and John Norris, Letters Concerning the...Taylor and Melvyn New's edition of Mary Astell and John Norris' epistolary work Letters...Editions' series. In September 1693, Mary Astell wrote to John Norris about his recently...
Politics and civil society: a discussion of Mary Kelley's learning to stand and speak.(Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Early Republic; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; The recent publication of Mary Kelley's Learning to Stand and Speak...by Nancy Cott, Linda Kerber, and Mary Beth Norton, education has been portrayed...Since the time of John Locke and Mary Astell, women's apparent intellectual inferiority...
Political Writings.(Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words ; Mary Astell. Political Writings. Ed. Patricia Springborg...1996. 290 pp. $59.95 (cloth). Mary Astell (1669--1731) made important contributions...eighteenth century. These two editions of Astell's writing allow readers to explore her...

Related entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses

Mary Astell
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Mary Astell , 1666-1731, English author and feminist. Her Serious Proposal to the Ladies (2 parts, 1694-97) offered a scheme for a...
Astell, Mary
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Mary Astell British writer Mary Astell (1666 – 1731) is considered...Coventry, Elizabeth Thomas, Lady Mary Chudleigh, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu numbered among Astell's friends, patrons, and admirers...
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Well known throughout...English world traveller Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762...age noted for its wit, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu outshone many...close childhood friends was Mary Astell, who, sharing Montagu's...
feminism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...their children or even of their own persons. Although Mary Astell and others had pleaded earlier for larger opportunities for women, the first feminist document was Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women...
feminist history
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...who protested about the place allocated to them in society in virtue of their sex. Reading Mary Astell's Serious Proposal To the Ladies (1694), Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and John Stuart Mill's...

Find thousands of answers for hundreds of subjects at Smart QandA .

All answers verified by trusted sources at Encyclopedia.com

Try Smart QandA now!

For students and teachers!

Encyclopedia.com provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including:

Encyclopedia.com provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including: