What's the difference between assist and obstetricate?
Assist
Definition:
(v. t.) To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor.
(v. i.) To lend aid; to help.
(v. i.) To be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting.
Example Sentences:
(1) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
(2) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(3) Serially sectioned rabbit foliate taste buds were examined with high voltage electron microscopy (HVEM) and computer-assisted, three-dimensional reconstruction.
(4) The methodology, in algorithm form, should assist health planners in developing objectives and actions related to the occurrence of selected health status indicators and should be amenable to health care interventions.
(5) There were 54 patients who had a family doctor, 38 felt he could assist in aftercare.
(6) A neodymium YAG (Nd:YAG) laser was evaluated in a dog ulcer model used in the same manner as is recommended for bleeding patients (power 55 W, divergence angle 4 degrees, with CO2 gas-jet assistance).
(7) Following mass disasters and individual deaths, dentists with special training and experience in forensic odontology are frequently called upon to assist in the identification of badly mutilated or decomposed bodies.
(8) Two lunches are recoded with John Yates and Andy Hayman, the former assistant commissioners.
(9) Cloning of the A-T allele(s) will assist in the early or prenatal diagnosis of A-T and provide a firm basis for determining who, in the general population, carries this gene and is therefore at a high risk of cancer.
(10) Four goals, four assists, and constant movement have been a key part of the team’s success.
(11) Despite this exposure, none of 255 dentists, hygienists and chairside assistants had the antibody to HIV following an estimated 189 or more exposures.
(12) Documents seen by the Guardian show that blood supplies for one fiscal year were paid for by donations from America’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) – and both countries have imposed economic sanctions against the Syrian government.
(13) Nursing staff can assist these clients in a therapeutic way by becoming familiar with the types of issues these clients present and the behaviors they manifest.
(14) Although left heart bypass has gained popularity as a powerful technique to assist the severely failed left heart, apparent right heart failure has often developed during the bypass procedure.
(15) It is shown that the combined effects of altitude and wind assistance yielded an increment in the length of the jump of about 31 cm, compared to a corresponding jump at sea level under still air conditions.
(16) A compensator connected to the section consisting of the pump-main line-operating member and including a pneumatic resistance and a flaxid non-elastic container enables it in combination with the feedback to maintain through the volumetric displacement of the gas, or changing the pump diaphragm position, the stability of the gas volume in the pneumatic transmission element of the assisted circulation apparatus.
(17) Restriction site analysis, DNA sequence analysis, and computer-assisted search revealed eight retrotransposon-like elements distributed over a 25 kilobase (kb) mouse Il-6 region.
(18) This is what President Carter did when he raised the spectre of terminating US military assistance if Israel did not immediately evacuate Lebanon in September 1977.
(19) Experiments have been performed using CO2 laser-assisted microvascular anastomoses, and they demonstrated the following features, in comparison with conventional anastomoses: ease in technique; less time consumption; less tissue inflammation; early wound healing; equivalency of patency rate and inner pressure tolerance; but only about 50 percent of the tensile strength of manual-suture anastomosis.
(20) Although the reeler, an autosomal recessive mutant mouse with the abnormality of lamination in the central nervous system, died about 3 weeks of age when fed ordinary laboratory chow, this mouse could grow up normally and prolong its destined, short lifespan to 50 weeks and more when given assistance in taking paste food and water from the weaning period.
Obstetricate
Definition:
(v. i.) To perform the office of midwife.
(v. t.) To assist as a midwife.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perinatal mortality is strongly associated with obstetrical factors, respiratory distress syndrome, and prematurity.
(2) Emily Stow London • Until I retired a year ago I was a consultant anaesthetist with a special interest in obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia.
(3) The obstetric situations demanding action from the obstetrician are not rarely correlated or due to pathologic behavior at birth.
(4) At the Universitäts-Frauenklinik Heidelberg this examination procedure was used since June, 1985, to evaluate its clinical reliability in obstetrics and gynecology.
(5) One of the reasons for doing this study is to give a voice to women trapped in this epidemic,” said Dr Catherine Aiken, academic clinical lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of the University of Cambridge, “and to bring to light that with all the virology, the vaccination and containment strategy and all the great things that people are doing, there is no voice for those women on the ground.” In a supplement to the study, the researchers have published some of the emails to Women on Web which reveal their fears.
(6) The aim of this study was to determine the attitudes of participating GPs to the shared obstetric care programme at the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne.
(7) This clearly more aggressive obstetrical conduct could not be explained by the main indications for cesarean section.
(8) The following results were obtained during pharmacokinetic, bacteriological and clinical evaluation of the usefulness of the combination (1:1) of imipenem (MK-0787) and cilastatin sodium (MK-0791), an inhibitor of dehydropeptidase-I, in the treatment of patients with obstetric and gynecologic infections.
(9) Since July 1, 1990, Nalbuphine has been used as an obstetric analgesia at the Municipal Women's Hospital in Cologne-Holweide.
(10) Real time multitransducer B scanners can greatly facilitate obstetrical ultrasound examination.
(11) Other causes are malaria (21), undernutrition (12), meningitidis (10), diarrhea (9), pneumopathy (7), endogenous and obstetrical causes (24).
(12) Images of pseudoporencephaly and hydrocephaly were seen in the scan as well as recent hemorrhages due to obstetric injury.
(13) A sexual, obstetric, and contraceptive history was obtained from each woman.
(14) A proposal for attention to professional influences usable in a computer program of obstetric clinics is offered.
(15) A review of the literature was conducted to survey obstetric practice with regard to amniotomy, intravenous fluids, third stage administration of oxytocics, episiotomy and continuous fetal monitoring.
(16) This paper examines the availability of office-based obstetric care to Medicaid patients in Illinois.
(17) Prognostic variables (age, International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics [FIGO] stage, performance status, and others) possibly associated with high-risk subgroups could not be identified.
(18) Foetal acidaemia in association with clinical foetal distress occurred twice as often in patients who had complications of pregnancy and who were therefore regarded as obstetrically "at risk" as it did in patients who were obstetrically "normal" No cases of acidaemia were detected in any of the foetal blood samples performed routinely on "at-risk" patients in the absence of clinical foetal distress.
(19) Family physicians who have given up obstetric practice were found to feel well trained and competent in this practice.
(20) Obstetric patients are often treated with a combination of traditional and Western methods.