Putting a stent in by endoscopy. After you have had a sedative injection, the doctor puts a tube called an endoscope into your mouth and passes it down your throat to your stomach. The tube passes through to the beginning of the small bowel (your duodenum) and the opening of your bile duct.utting a stent in by endoscopy. After you have had a sedative injection, the doctor puts a tube called an endoscope into your mouth and passes it down your throat to your stomach. The tube passes through to the beginning of the small bowel (your duodenum) and the opening of your bile duct.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Abdominal guarding is the tensing of the abdominal wall muscles to guard inflamed organs within the abdomen from the pain of pressure upon them. The tensing is detected when the abdominal wall is pressed. Abdominal guarding is also known as 'dÃ©fense musculaire'.
Medical Definition of Abdominal Abdominal: Relating to the abdomen, the belly, that part of the body that contains all of the structures between the chest and the pelvis. The abdomen is separated anatomically from the chest by the diaphragm, the powerful muscle spanning the body cavity below the lungs. The abdomen includes a host of organs including the stomach, small intestine, colon, rectum, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, appendix, gallbladder, and bladder.