What's the difference between auscultate and harken?
Auscultate
Definition:
(v. i. & t.) To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.
Example Sentences:
(1) To evaluate the relationship between the motion pattern and degree of organic change of the anterior mitral leaflet (AML) and the features of the mitral component of the first heart sound (M1) or the opening snap (OS), 37 patients with mitral stenosis (MS) were studied by auscultation, phonocardiography and echocardiography.
(2) Indirect blood pressure measurement techniques included automated oscillometry, manual auscultation, visual onset of oscillation (flicker) and return-to-flow methods.
(3) Rapid heart beat was found accidentally by auscultation.
(4) In contrast to other methods (ECG, inspection, auscultation, blood gas analysis), it immediately detects an impending lack of oxygen, whatever its cause.
(5) Although the continuous murmur is an unusual sign in patients with pulmonary embolism, its auscultation is often quite distinctive, and its appearance may lead to more definitive diagnostic studies when the presentation or associated clinical findings are nonspecific.
(6) An apparently primitive cervical bruit corresponded to a lesion of the carotid bifurcation in 61% of the cases (positive predictive value) whereas a normal bifurcation was detected in 70% of the cases in which the cervical bruit was considered as secondary (negative predictive value); the diagnostic accuracy of the "critical auscultation" has a value therefore of 63%, with a sensitivity of 84% and a specificity of 40%.
(7) In 43% of the patients with pulmonary tuberculosis no abnormal signs were registered by auscultation.
(8) A technique of thoracotomy via the triangle of auscultation is described.
(9) Echocardiography supports the diagnosis of MVP made by auscultation in over 90% of individuals, with excellent reproducibility.
(10) Cases of neonatal seizures and persistent abnormal neurological signs followed by survival were twice as frequent in the intermittent auscultation group, and this differential effect was related to duration of labor.
(11) Air entry by auscultation improved subjectively in 59% of patients.
(12) Testing consisted of spirometry, lung auscultation, and measurement of vital signs.
(13) Two of the four seronegative children developed a mild illness characterized by rhinorrhea and wheezing on auscultation; none had fever.
(14) During exercise, mean arterial pressure (MAP, brachial auscultation) was significantly lower (P less than 0.03) and heart rate significantly higher (P less than 0.02) during the prazosin trials; plasma catecholamine concentrations were unaffected.
(15) Diagnosis is made by following the classical physical diagnostic procedures of inspection, palpation, and auscultation.
(16) The ability of the auscultated acceleration test to predict nonstress test results after selected variables were controlled for was as follows: sensitivity, 75%; specificity, 97.6%; false-positive results, 14.3%; and false-negative results, 4.7%.
(17) As regards auscultation, a plea is made for differentiation between obstructed and non-obstructed consolidation of lobes, a point recognized by some clinicians, but not enunciated with clarity by teachers.
(18) The forceps delivery rate was 8.2% in the electronic fetal heart monitoring group compared with 6.3% in the intermittent auscultation group, and this excess was explained by more instrumental deliveries prompted by fetal heart rate abnormalities.
(19) Intraobserver and interobserver agreement in classifying all specific TMJ sounds at palpation and auscultation was acceptable to moderate (kappa value = 0.49 to 0.74).
(20) Twenty-seven of these 30 joints were treated with the appliance until the joints were silent to auscultation.
Harken
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To hearken.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this regard, techniques for endomyocardial resection have been described by Harken and Josephson.
(2) On this base different direct surgical approaches were advocated by Guiraudon, proposing an encircling endocardial ventriculotomy and by Josephson and Harken recommending a subendocardial resection technique.
(3) The recent contributions of Sullivan, Harken and Gorlin (54), Weily and Genton (55), and Harker and Slicter (56) to our understanding of the role of the platelets in initiating such fibrinous deposition now provide us with a way to prevent such late degeneration of valves made of fascia lata.
(4) The new store "is a reflection of realising that the relationship we want to have with our customers should harken back to this sense of community, this unique store environment".
(5) A second case of malfunction of a Harken disk valve due to undue disk wear is reported.
(6) The first candidate to speak, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, harkened back to the 1990s and the “vast right wing conspiracy” she once railed against in describing the investigation of her emails and use of a “private homebrew server” while leading the State Department.
(7) Read more It is a time-honored role for artist as designator, to point at the stuff of the physical world and revision it as art, harkening back to the readymade.
(8) It harkens to Kansas City's oldest community development corporation, the Black Economic Union, started in 1968 by NFL Hall of Famer Jim Brown to spur redevelopment in the city's black neighborhoods.
(9) For the creation of atrial septal defect (ASD), we have developed a new method (Method I) using modified Harken blade for the closed commissurotomy, in which the membranous septum of the fossa ovalis was incised in case of patent foramen ovale (PFO).
(10) Many of his proposals harkened back to the old populist PRI, promising pensions for the elderly, life insurance for single mothers to support their children through college, a program to end hunger and a new system of passenger trains.
(11) It harkens back to the most absurd moments of the cold war, when nuclear strategists followed the logic of deterrence over the cliff and into the abyss.” In its efforts to reassure its eastern European allies over the threat of Russian encroachment, the US has also been mixing its conventional and nuclear signalling.
(12) I don’t pick out a name – don’t want to hurt anybody or help anybody, frankly.” Trump, whose campaign slogan is “make America great again” harkened back to an era when he thought the country was great and there was bipartisanship.
(13) A porcine bioprosthetic valve was implanted in 528 patients (514 Hancock and 14 Carpentier-Edwards valves) and a prosthetic disc valve in 178 patients (102 standard disc Björk-Shiley, 34 Beall, and 42 Harken disc valves).
(14) Years of frustration of cardiac surgeons attempting to control intractable ventricular arrhythmia finally ended when the team of Harken, Josephson, and Horowitz performed electrophysiologically directed left ventricular endocardial resection and reported their early results 10 years ago.
(15) All P underwent aneurysmectomy and an excision of the altered endocardium by Harken's method.
(16) In 3 patients excision of the altered endocardium by Harken's method (endocardial peeling) was done; in 2 of the patients it was preceded by intraoperative electrophysiological study.
(17) A Harken prosthetic disc valve (DVR) was used in 53 patients and glutaraldehyde-preserved Hancock porcine xenograft (PVR) in 56 patients.
(18) Social media’s reaction to the photo essay harkened back to other uses of Twitter to discuss women’s experiences, including #WhyIStayed , which served as a public forum for women to discuss experiences of domestic abuse.
(19) (Conservatives show footage of Black Panthers at the polls, progressives harken back – not very far – the obstacles white legislators put in front of black voters.)
(20) In proposing the neurogenic and psychogenic groupings, we do not intend to harken back to antique "mind-body" distinctions.