(n.) The act of amputating; esp. the operation of cutting off a limb or projecting part of the body.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even so, amputation of fifteen extremities and four other major excisions were required in twelve patients.
(2) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
(3) Diabetic retinopathy (an index of microangiopathy) and absence of peripheral pulses, amputation, or history of myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischemic attacks (as evidence of macroangiopathy) caused surprisingly little increase in relative risk for cardiovascular death.
(4) Staplers were used and therefore the choice between resection or amputation was determined by the degree of loco-regional infiltration of the neoplasm.
(5) Between the 3rd and 4th week following amputation, the first fully differentiated striated muscle cells appear, and in the 6th week myogenic differentiation extends throughout the regenerate.
(6) Cooling of the necrotic limb with the application of a tourniquet and general nonoperative treatment were conducted in preparation for amputation.
(7) Twenty-three cases were reviewed with an ultimate amputation rate of 61% (22% primary, 39% delayed).
(8) In the group of 25 patients with critical ischaemia there were three operative deaths and in 10 the graft subsequently occluded, precipitating an amputation.
(9) Of these, twenty-five were selected for hemipelvectomy and thirty-two, for non-amputative procedures.
(10) Blastemas implanted with 2 dorsal root ganglia and simultaneously denervated 14 days after amputation exhibited control levels of cell cycle activity 6 days later, as measured by 3H-thymidine pulse labeling.
(11) Early biopsy of suspicious lesions followed by amputation of the digit in those proving positive is the treatment of choice.
(12) Twenty-three unique causal pathways to diabetic limb amputation were identified.
(13) The synthesis of flagellar proteins after deflagellation is defective only in gametic cells; vegetative cells of these mutants are capable of flagellar protein synthesis after flagellar amputation.
(14) The prognosis after interscapulothoracic amputation depends upon the primary malignant disease.
(15) During a 10-year period 104 patients (mean age 72 years) had 106 through-knee amputations.
(16) The other metastasis was removed by amputation 4 years prior to the nephrectomy.
(17) Acute ischaemia of the lower leg caused by arterial thrombosis often leads to amputation.
(18) The anatomical relationships of the terminal branch of posterior interosseous nerve have been studied in 57 cadaver and amputation specimens.
(19) Patients with all three risk factors should be considered for early amputation.
(20) Two patients are described: one with prosthetization in 1982 with aorta prosthesis because of aortic valvular defect and a female patient with lupus eythematodes disseminata and severe organ disorders resulting from that (cardiac, renal, amputation of the left arm).
Removal
Definition:
(n.) The act of removing, or the state of being removed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Samples are hydrolyzed with Ba (OH)2, and the hydrolysate is passed through a Dowex-50 column to remove the salts and soluble carbohydrates.
(2) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(3) After 3 and 6 months, blood collected by cardiocentesis using ether anesthesia and then sacrificed to remove CNS and internal organs.
(4) On removal of selective pressure, the His+ phenotype was lost more readily than the Ura+ Trp+ markers, with a corresponding decrease in plasmid copy number.
(5) Mannose receptor mediated uptake by the reticuloendothelial system has been suggested as an explanation for the rapid removal of ricin A chain antibody conjugates from the circulation after their administration.
(6) Nine months later, the animals were sacrificed, the esophagus and the gastric stump were removed for histologic examination.
(7) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
(8) Decreased MU stops additions of bone by modeling and increases removal of bone next to marrow by remodeling.
(9) The International Monetary Fund, which has long urged Nigeria to remove the subsidy, supports the move.
(10) No effect of BSO pretreatments on the incomplete removal of crosslinks over 36 hr of observation was seen.
(11) Plasma for beta-endorphin assay was preincubated with sepharose-bound anti-beta-lipotropin to remove beta-lipotropin that cross-reacted with the beta-endorphin RIA.
(12) However in the deciduous teeth from which the successional tooth germs were removed, the processes of tooth resorption was very different in individuals, the difference between tooth resorption in normal occlusal force and in decreased occlusal force was not clear.
(13) A neonate without external malformation had undergone removal of a nasopharyngeal mass containing anterior and posterior pituitary tissue.
(14) Selective removal of endothelium had no effect on BK-induced contraction or the action of the antagonists.
(15) Conditions for limited digestion of the heterodimer by subtilisin, removing only the carboxyl terminus, were determined.
(16) Our recurrences are due to local infections, removing the metal strut too early, i.e.
(17) We conclude that removal of dimers and repair of gaps were similar in all cases.
(18) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
(19) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
(20) Agarose-albumin beads may be useful for removing protein-bound substances from the blood of patients with liver failure, intoxication with protein-bound drugs, or specific metabolic deficits.