(n.) An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock.
Example Sentences:
(1) Use of the multiple-dose syringe pump system resulted in a savings of $934.81 in material costs compared with the bottle and burette system and $9.70 in material costs compared with the single-dose syringe pump system (based on 40 doses).
(2) Ultrathin (120-180 microns) gels were prepared with the flap technique and 500 microns gels with the cassette technique; 500 microns gels with immobilized pH gradients were cast using precision molds and a computer controlled mixing device of four burettes.
(3) When the cost of wasted drug was considered, the cost per day of the multiple-dose syringe pump system was substantially less (70%) than the cost per day of the bottle and burette system and approximately the same as the cost per day for the single-dose syringe pump system.
(4) To do this the lower end of the burette must be blocked and a method of doing this without the need to fuse on a glass tap is described.4.
(5) At a selected pO2, O2 supply is maintained by injecting appropriate amounts of O2-saturated aqueous medium into the reaction chamber by using a motor-driven burette.
(6) Implementation of a multiple-dose, multiple-flow-rate syringe pump system may result in cost savings over a traditional bottle and burette system and could complement an existing single-dose syringe infusion system.
(7) Assembled from readily available and economical instrumental components, the apparatus includes a pH meter, a thermoelectric heating and stirring device, a motor-driven burette, and an automatic recorder.
(8) Intravenous fluid containers, burettes, a syringe, infusion sets and end-line filters were evaluated.
(9) Up to 50% potency of chlormethiazole and nitroglycerin, 15-25% of isosorbide dinitrate, and 13-20% of diazepam was lost to PVC sets without burettes, and an additional 10-15% loss of each drug resulted when PVC sets with burettes were used.
(10) A new way of measuring the graduation error in the stem of the Lloyd-Haldane burette is described, in which a fixed mass of water is made to occupy different parts of the stem.
(11) One solution was prepared in a soft polyvinyl chloride minibag (Viaflex, Baxter-Travenol), the other in a semirigid plastic burette (Buretrol, Baxter-Travenol).
(12) administration sets with and without cellulose propionate burettes and to polybutadiene (PBD) sets with and without methacrylate butadiene styrene (MBS) burettes was studied.
(13) Infusion bags, burettes, a syringe, infusion tubings and end-line filters were tested in static and in dynamic experiments.
(14) All drugs (except chlormethiazole) were diluted with 0.9% sodium chloride injection (NS) in glass bottles or in the burette chambers.
(15) The strata in the minibag showed smaller variations in potassium concentration than did corresponding layers in the burette.
(16) Each patient received gentamicin therapy via intravenous piggyback (IVPB) and in-line burette (ILB) methods.
(17) Change of in-line burettes in patients in intensive care at 72-hour intervals is safe and should result in substantial cost savings to hospitals.
(18) At the time the new syringe pump system was implemented, the teaching hospital was using a gravity-dependent bottle and burette system and the community hospital was using a single-dose syringe pump system.
(19) The cumulative amount of paraldehyde delivered at the end of the administration set at six hours was 84% for 5% dextrose solutions in burettes, and 89% or 90% for all other solutions and i.v.
(20) The method involves dilution with an albumin solution, a 2-hr incubation with a commercially available substrate mixture, and manual titration with a burette.
Curette
Definition:
(n.) A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb.
Example Sentences:
(1) Curettement resulted in symptomatic and radiographic resolution of the tumor.
(2) This clinical trial suggests that Pipelle biopsy appears to be as effective as the Novak curette in obtaining an adequate specimen for histologic analysis and is associated with less pain.
(3) Repeated parallel cell samplings from the nasal mucosa were performed with cytologic imprints on plastic strips, nasal lavages with the recovery of the cells in the lavage fluid with cytocentrifugation on object slides for cytologic study, and scrapings from the nasal surface with a curette for histologic and ultrastructural evaluation.
(4) Vitality of root-attached tissues was preserved by preventing dehydration, avoiding curettement of root surfaces, and using a flap reflection technique which eliminates reflective forces in the intrasulcular incisional wound site.
(5) The point is a self-developed Suction-curette-system, consisting of a suction-curette of diametres of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 und 8 mm, a cervicometer and a filter.
(6) The Pipelle endometrial suction curette was evaluated, and its application and effectiveness were compared to those of the Novak curette for endometrial sampling during the midluteal phase.
(7) Scaling with curettes was performed in five patients.
(8) Each of these patients, who underwent antegrade curettement, bone grafting, and pinning, had either failed a conservative program or had a loose or separated fragment.
(9) The use of clear plastic suction curette is objectionable because the operator can see the embryonic parts and sac as it passes through the tube.
(10) Eighteen edges of nine curettes of the same brands were likewise examined after root planing procedures.
(11) A new uterine curette is described, with features designed to help eliminate some of the instrumentation hazards in the operation of uterine curettage.
(12) Samples obtained by the washing technique had a slight but significantly higher proportion of coccoid cells when compared to samples obtained by curette.
(13) Fifty women underwent an endometrial biopsy with the Pipelle and Novak curettes.
(14) Previous problems with forward and backward movement of the curette is eliminated.
(15) On the other site the special curettes for root planing in the furcation region have a smaller curvature radius as that of the root faces.
(16) Operation was performed to excise the outer plate of the swollen bone and to curette the lesion after the ligature of the left external carotid artery.
(17) Six perforations were in the parametrium, producing no injury of the serosa; three of them required laparotomy because of abundant bleeding (laparotomy had to be applied previously in the two) and in the remaining 27 patients the uterine corpus was perforated either by a dilatator, forceps, curette or aspiration cannula.
(18) A few hand instruments such as a probe, Ferris-Smith rongeurs, and small, large, and right-angled curettes are needed to debride most lesions.
(19) Only a thin layer of root substance (11.6 microns) was removed by the ultrasonic scaler, compared to the much greater losses sustained with the airscaler (93.5 microns), the curette (108.9 microns) and the diamond bur (118.7 microns).
(20) The curette sampling technique was found to be efficient both quantitatively and qualitatively.