What's the difference between cauterize and electric?

Cauterize


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic.
  • (v. t.) To sear, as the conscience.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Potential causes for bowel burn associated with tubal cauterization are discussed.
  • (2) In one case the origin of infection was a cauterized wart that did not appear clinically infected.
  • (3) The use of drugs such as polydeoxyribonucleotide (PDRN) 5 mg (POLIDES 5--Farmigea), provided with reepithelialization and anticomplement action, seems to promote a quicker recovery of the cauterized or vaporized zone, avoiding, at the same time, the secondary inflammatory reaction.
  • (4) An effort was made to neutralize the virus in loco either by infiltration of the inoculation site with povidone-iodine or with monoclonal antibodies, or by cauterization and excision.
  • (5) The infective lesions of the corneal epithelium (dendritic and geographic ulcers) occasionally develop into noninfective indolent or trophic ulcers, particularly under the influence of cauterizing chemicals or corticosteroids.
  • (6) The risk of development of malignancy in the retained stump is almost eliminated by the laparoscopic removal of the upper endocervical canal and cauterization of the lower endocervical canal and exocervix.
  • (7) These observations suggest that the physiological maturity of the muscle was not appreciably altered even though glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity was higher (P greater than 0.05) and total phosphorylase activity was lower (P greater than 0.05) in the spinal cauterized fetuses than in the control group.
  • (8) The terminal innervation ratios were similar (P greater than 0.05) for muscles from control and cauterized fetuses.
  • (9) Cauterization of the pars intercerebralis after the critical period of the prothoracic gland activity does not affect moulting in any way.
  • (10) Following successful cauterization, goblet cells returned.
  • (11) With the trend of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) toward development at an earlier age in today's population, the importance of office cauterization in preventing cervical cancer becomes apparent.
  • (12) In order to study congenital constriction band syndrome, we performed local cauterization of the lower limb buds of embryos in fertilized white leghorn eggs between hour 0 on day 4 (day 4-0) and day 7-0 of incubation.
  • (13) Application of prednisolone disodium phosphate ointment to cauterized corneas also inhibited neutrophil migration at 6 h, but increased the extravascular neutrophils at 48 h. After 6 days of treatment, corneal blood vessel growth was significantly reduced.
  • (14) If operative intervention is advised, it should consist of one of several limited procedures that can be safely performed with low morbidity: anal encirclement, presacral packing, sclerosing injection, or linear rectal cauterization.
  • (15) In operated groups an ulcer was provoked by cauterization with a metallic plate in the gastric fundus.
  • (16) In males the development of gonadotrophs was strongly suppressed in number and in size after the cauterization, whereas in females the suppression was less prominent.
  • (17) Cauterization was performed anterior to the joint in nine experimental rhesus monkeys, while eight animals served as control subjects.
  • (18) After cauterization of a single bleeding point, the patient again received prednisolone.
  • (19) Rearing environment (enriched vs. normal) and method of vibrissae removal (cauterization of follicles vs. plucking) were examined to determine specific factors that m might influence the effect of vibrissae removal.
  • (20) Over a 2-year period 1013 phenol cauterizations were carried out on 631 patients.

Electric


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Electrical
  • (n.) A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
  • (2) Cellular radial expansion was apparently unaffected by exposure to electric fields.
  • (3) The purpose of the present study was to analyze the effects of cromakalim (BRL 34915), a potent drug from a new class of drugs characterized as "K+ channel openers", on the electrical activity of human skeletal muscle.
  • (4) Noradrenaline (NA) was released from sympathetic nerve endings in the tissue by electrical stimulation of the mesenteric nerves or by the indirect sympathomimetic agent tyramine.
  • (5) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
  • (6) All of the serotonergic antagonists studied had additional effects on the response of the coronary artery to electrical stimulation or to norepinephrine.
  • (7) Hyperosmolar buffer slightly increased the sensitivity and maximal response to methacholine as well as the cholinergic twitch to electric field stimulation.
  • (8) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
  • (9) Electrical stimulation of afferent pathways at intensities just below threshold for eliciting action potentials resulted in a dramatic decrease in JSCP threshold.
  • (10) Average temperature changes observed were less than 1 degree C. The present study demonstrates that the electrically evoked response in mammalian brain can be altered by ultrasound in a non-thermal, non-cavitational mode, and that such effects are potentially reversible.
  • (11) Quantitative esophageal sensibility, therefore is concluded to be particularly suited to evaluation by electric stimulation.
  • (12) The new trabecular bone closely resembled that typically seen at electrically active implants.
  • (13) A second group was chronically implanted without electrical stimulation in one leg and implanted with cyclical electrical stimulation applied through the electrode in the other leg.
  • (14) The intermandibularis is probably present only in electric rays.
  • (15) Masking experiments are demonstrated for electrical frequency-modulated tone bursts from 1,000 to 10,000 cps and from 10,000 to 1,000 cps with superimposed clicks.
  • (16) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
  • (17) It is suggested that intra-endothelial conduction of electrical signals from capillaries to the resistance vessels may be involved in the local regulation of blood flow in the intact heart.
  • (18) In the anesthetized cat, the posterior canal nerve (PCN) was stimulated by electric pulses and synaptic responses were recorded intracellularly in the three antagonistic pairs of extraocular motoneurons.
  • (19) Among the epileptic patients investigated by the stereotactic E. E. G. (Talairach) whose electrodes were introduced at or around the auditory cortex (Area 41, 42), the topography of the auditory responses by the electrical bipolar stimulation and that of the auditory evoked potential by the bilateral click sound stimulation were studied in relation to the ac--pc line (Talairach).
  • (20) It is suggested that contractile responses to electrical stimulation in isolated sheep urethral smooth muscle are mediated by the sympathetic nervous system, mainly through release of noradrenaline stimulating postjunctional alpha 1-adrenoceptors.