What's the difference between conduit and drain?

Conduit


Definition:

  • (n.) A pipe, canal, channel, or passage for conveying water or fluid.
  • (n.) A structure forming a reservoir for water.
  • (n.) A narrow passage for private communication.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A conduit of a diameter of 23 mm was made by hand with a glutaraldehyde preserved xenopericardial graft.
  • (2) A reduction of salmonellae during the passage of the pump and pressure conduit-pipe, combining east- and west-side of Kiel fjord, could be seen.
  • (3) In controls the conduit emptied mainly by means of low pressure, to-and-fro activity.
  • (4) All but 1 of 12 patients who underwent total cystectomy with ileal conduit diversion also underwent various transurethral procedures for treatment of the primary bladder lesions.
  • (5) LAD to LCCA collaterals serve as functionally significant bidirectional perfusion conduits, and monitoring of collateral perfusion development is practical by measuring the step reduction in LCCA flow upon abrupt release of an LAD occlusion.
  • (6) Their chief conduits in Damascus have been leading members of the Assad clan, but not necessarily Bashar al-Assad himself.
  • (7) "There is understandable scrutiny on how we are doing things and that should act as a conduit to look at labor issues across the region.
  • (8) New structures reported are mesoboscis retractor muscles, the formation of 3 ligament strands from the proboscis retractor muscles, a teloboscis inflator muscle, and conduit through the protrusor muscle sheath.
  • (9) Following reported successes with chemically fixed human umbilical veins (HUV), we have attempted to develop smaller diameter blood conduits and have improved the currently prevalent techniques of fixation, preparation and storage to generate more convenient surgical products.
  • (10) This patient underwent total cystectomy with ileal conduit and histopathological staging was pT3bNOMO.
  • (11) Heterograft conduits so far have been unsuccessful in the aortocoronary position in humans.
  • (12) No correlation between the conduit pressure and the occurrence of ureteral reflux was found.
  • (13) Fontan's operation in Doty's modification was performed which involves the establishment of a wide direct connection between the right atrium and the pulmonary artery without the use of valves or a conduit.
  • (14) The 66 patients were subdivided into four groups according to the type of conduit harvested (single left internal thoracic artery or saphenous vein) and the type of material used for the sternal closure (steel wires or nylon yarns).
  • (15) In patients with nearly total loss of ureters the pyelotransverse conduit is an effective surgical solution and may prove more comfortable to the patient than bilateral percutaneous nephrostomies.
  • (16) In imaging porcine whole blood under steady laminar flow, under certain conditions a hypoechoic region was observed to appear near the center of the flow conduit.
  • (17) BD technique was tested in vitro with the use of nonstenotic valves in fresh conduits.
  • (18) We report a case in which papillary lesions developed in an ileal conduit that had been constructed for management of nonmalignant disease.
  • (19) In the present study, the physiological characteristics of the ITA graft were demonstrated as a viable conduit with flow adaptability and growth potential.
  • (20) Right ventriculography showed no contraction of the right ventricular free wall at the anastomosis to the conduit and poor contraction around the anastomosis in G-1.

Drain


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
  • (v. t.) To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie.
  • (v. t.) To filter.
  • (v. i.) To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off.
  • (v. i.) To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain.
  • (n.) The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country.
  • (n.) That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.
  • (n.) The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In one of the cirrhotic patients, postmortem correlation of sonographic, angiographic, and pathological findings showed that the dilated vessels seen on sonography were cystic veins draining normally into the portal vein rather than portosystemic anastomoses.
  • (2) Intraperitoneal drain should therefore be used when choledochus has been explored.
  • (3) It is usually associated with a left superior caval vein draining into the coronary sinus and is frequently part of a complex congenital malformation of the heart.
  • (4) Ovarian venous concentrations of these four steroids from the side draining the tumor-bearing ovary were increased in 40 to 80% of the women.
  • (5) Radioactive lactic acid was detected in the drained perfusion solution with D(U-14C)-glucose, but not when D(U-14C)-fructose was used.
  • (6) Draining of thin films has thus a dehydrating effect as well as a sorting and ordering effect.
  • (7) Regarding ureters read as true positives on indirect study, if that ureter has ever shown reflux at any time, or if it drained a scarred kidney specificity was improved to 97% without changing the sensitivity.
  • (8) In tests on 13 cells pacing at a 200 mua drain without recharging, the simulated mean duration of pacing before total discharge was 4.8 years.
  • (9) An abscess of a lingual tonsil should be drained under general anesthesia, and lingual thyroid should be treated conservatively unless it produces obstructive symptoms.
  • (10) Among them 8 cases were coelio-drained for 24 hours with very little thin bloody drainage.
  • (11) Lymphocytes obtained from lymph nodes draining foot pads infected with R. conorii or R. akari demonstrated cross-reactivity similar to that found with immune spleen cells.
  • (12) The experiments show that the single cephalad channel venous island flap is perfused by and drains through its single cephalad vein.
  • (13) But it has a tainted reputation: the 2007 foot and mouth outbreak was traced to a leak from Pirbright’s drains.
  • (14) The well drained soils of the Suiá--Missu forest are very uniform, deep latosols (oxisols) of very dystrophic nature with pH (in water) between 4.0 and 5.0 (see table 2, p. 203).
  • (15) That would mark a controversial break from its existing policy, whereby the ECB offsets bond purchases by draining liquidity from the system in separate operations.
  • (16) In 13 growing pigs (mini-pigs) all veins draining the head of femur were ligated intra-abdominally.
  • (17) However, we demonstrate that topical exposure to DNTB causes activation of the draining lymph node in mice and the induction of contact sensitization in both rodents and a single human volunteer.
  • (18) The malformations over the surface drain into the superior sagittal sinus.
  • (19) Our current recommendation for initial treatment is excision of the primary tumor followed by irradiation with generous fields to include the primary tumor site and draining regional lymphatics to doses of 46-50 Gy in 2 Gy fractions.
  • (20) The region was perfused at constant flow through the aorta and drained at constant pressure from the inferior vena cava.