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.
Shen Nung, the Father of Chinese medicine (approximately 2695 BCE) noted for tasting 365 herbs and dying from a toxic overdose, also wrote the treatise On Herbal Medical Experiment Poisons. This treatise was later expanded by countless generations of doctors and is a main reason why knowledge of remedial herbs is so expansive in China.