What's the difference between bisect and dissect?

Bisect


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cut or divide into two parts.
  • (v. t.) To divide into two equal parts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Embryos bisected at blastocyst stages had a higher survival rate in vitro than those bisected at the morula stage.
  • (2) Despite the claims, the Pyongyang metro is indeed a functional system, running along two bisecting lines in the central and outer-western parts of Pyongyang.
  • (3) It is shown that both IgGs contain the same carbohydrate chains (biantennary and bisected) but the relative amount of bisected and incomplete chains (with fewer terminal galactose residues) is higher in myeloma IgG4.
  • (4) The procedure involves bisection of single-cell eggs in a medium containing cytochalasin; fusion of egg halves with single blastomeres, induced using Sendai virus or an electrofusion apparatus; and embedding in agar, followed by culture of the reconstituted embryos in the ligated oviducts of ewes in dioestrus.
  • (5) Stanislas could have celebrated that reprieve by treating himself to another goal when United’s defence was bisected by a wonderful pass from Gosling.
  • (6) The two types of procedure also yield different conclusions in scaling experiments designed to study the functional midpoint of two or more durations (temporal bisection procedures).
  • (7) Day 6 embryos were bisected and the resulting demiembryos were stained with Hoechst 33342 and cell counts were made by counting intact blastomere nuclei.
  • (8) These findings suggest that the left hemisphere has the ability to estimate the midpoint of the line through the right visual field and that visuospatial disorder in the line bisection test is attributable to the pathological change in the right hemisphere.
  • (9) The tailpiece sequence thus has profound effects on assembly, yet it is apparently unstructured and can be bisected without affecting its function.
  • (10) Binding was not affected by the inner core portion of complex oligosaccharides nor by the presence of a bisecting N-acetylglucosamine residue.
  • (11) In planarians bisected transversely through the pharyngeal region, the decolouration occurs only in the cephalic segment, and the caudal segment remains dark.
  • (12) The distribution of stable flies, Stomoxys calcitrans (L.), caught on adhesive-coated Alsynite cylinder traps indicated that a significantly higher proportion of flies landed on the side most protected from the wind, and that flies were distributed equally on both sides of the traps bisected by the direction of the prevailing wind, and that the proportion of trapped flies decreased significantly with height on the trap.
  • (13) This may explain the preferential action of Gal-transferase on the Man alpha 1,3 arm of both bisected and nonbisected oligosaccharides.
  • (14) Three experiments were conducted with bisected embryos.
  • (15) The negligible GlcNAc-T III activity of the four human T-cell lines and of tonsillar T lymphocytes agrees with the reported absence of bisected structures in N-glycans from human T lymphocyte membrane glycoproteins.
  • (16) The illusion results from an overestimation of the length of vertical lines, seems to be predominantly cognitive in nature, and exists in the absence of line bisection and a comparison line.
  • (17) An eccentricity index, defined as the ratio of the length of two perpendicular minor-axis diameters, one of which bisected and was perpendicular to the interventricular septum, was obtained at end-systole and end-diastole.
  • (18) In addition, evidence is presented for the first time that plasma fibrinogen possesses (GlcNAc beta 1----4Man beta) residues (bisecting GlcNAc) and O-glycosidically bound carbohydrate units.
  • (19) Along this distinctive cell contact, the cell membranes of apposing cells are separated by 210-300 a bisected by irregularly spaced 100-150-A extracellular particles which are often circular in profile.
  • (20) Over the past 15 years the harbour that bisects the city has been transformed from an industrial zone into a cultural and residential hub with water so clean that we take Liv swimming in the harbour baths – lifeguarded floating swimming-pool structures that are accessible for free.

Dissect


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize.
  • (v. t.) To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) Limited biopsic retroperitoneal lymphnode dissection subsequently extended following the result of the frozen section histology.
  • (3) When the eye was dissected into anterior uveal, scleral, and retinal complexes, prostaglandin D2 was formed in the highest degree in all the complexes, whereas prostaglandin E2 and F2 alpha formation was specific to given ocular regions.
  • (4) Right orchiectomy and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for embryonal carcinoma had been performed 5 years earlier.
  • (5) A case of dissecting hematoma involving the left main, left anterior descending, and left circumflex coronary arteries is described in a patient who had received vigorous closed-chest cardiac resuscitation.
  • (6) Further analysis of these changes according to smoking history, age, preoperative weight, dissection of IMA, and aortic cross-clamp time showed that only IMA dissection affected the postextubation changes in peak expiratory flow rate (p less than 0.0001), whereas the decreases in functional residual capacity and expiratory reserve volume at discharge were affected by IMA dissection (p less than 0.05) and age (p = 0.01).
  • (7) Moreover, the most recent combined application of the rat interstitial cell testosterone (RICT) bioassay and a novel multiple-parameter deonvolution model has allowed investigators to dissect plasma concentration profiles of bioactive LH into defined secretory bursts, which have numerically explicit amplitudes, locations in time, and durations, and are acted upon by determinable subject- and study-specific endogenous metabolic clearance rates.
  • (8) Fewer one-cell embryos co-cultured with dissected ampullae for less than 24 h developed to blastocysts than those co-cultured for more than 28 h (P < 0.001).
  • (9) A prospective randomized study was carried out to discover the influence of the timing of shoulder physiotherapy after-axillary dissection for breast cancer upon the incidence and duration of lymphatic fluid production and seroma after these operations.
  • (10) When the supraomohyoid neck dissection specimen showed no involvement, the overall incidence of treatment failure in the neck at 2-year follow-up was 5 percent.
  • (11) The ventral root dissection technique was used to obtain contractile and electromyogram (e.m.g.)
  • (12) To dissect the epitope specificity of the group-specific neutralizing antibodies, CD4 attachment site-specific antibodies (CD4-site Abs) were isolated from total anti-gp120 Abs by using a CD4-blocked gp120SF2-Sepharose column.
  • (13) The complete thyroid cartilage is dissected out, and then a horizontal cut is made through the cricoid cartilage.
  • (14) These findings demonstrate that heteroantisera can provide an additional important tool for dissecting the heterogeneity of T-cell leukemias and for relating them to more differentiated normal T cells.
  • (15) Under a dissecting microscope the vascular casts revealed direct communications from the skeletal muscle which penetrated deeply into the myocardium.
  • (16) A new method of anatomic dissection and image reconstruction using computer techniques for better understanding of eustachian tube (ET) functioning is presented.
  • (17) The authors recall the advantages of low transcartilage incision in rhinoplasty and, by means of several technical details, illustrate the value of this approach in submucosal dissection.
  • (18) On dissected mucosa stained by the PAS-alcian blue whole-mount method the density and distribution of goblet cells in various parts of the middle ear was determined in 13 children, ranging in age from 9 days to 14 years.
  • (19) We studied 36 patients (21 women and 15 men) with spontaneous dissection of the internal carotid arteries.
  • (20) Between March 1986 and September 1988, 38 patients underwent extended aortic resection (aortic valve, ascending aorta, and arch) for acute type-A aortic dissection with aortic valve insufficiency; deep hypothermia and circulatory arrest were used.