Ureteral stone: The size of the stone does not correlate well to the intensity of the pain. The nearly unbearable pain of ureteral colic is from spasm of the muscular ureter. Although 50% probability to pass on its own within a few days, a 5-6mm stone sometimes will get stuck and fail to progress. Usually after 5 days, i recommend having the stone extracted with a ureteroscope as an outpatient.
(Redirected from Shen (surname)) Not to be confused with ShÄn (surname) (ç³) or ShÃ¨n (surname) (æ), both also generally written as 'Shen'. ShÄn is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname æ². Shen is the 14th surname in the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames.
the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin. a group of languages of the Sino-Tibetan family, including standard Chinese and most of the other languages of China. Abbreviation: Chin., Chin. any of the Chinese languages, which vary among themselves to the point of mutual unintelligibility.