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Curation


Definition:

  • (n.) Cure; healing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Possibilities to achieve this both in the curative and the preventive field are restricted mainly due to the insufficient knowledge of their etiopathogenesis.
  • (2) Eighty four colorectal cancer patients who underwent presumably curative surgery were considered as candidates for control recurrence study.
  • (3) Preventive care is closely linked with curative care, the latter must in future be mainly in the home rather than in hospital.
  • (4) However, the number of those with blastformation rates over 40% decreased markedly in the curative cases of gastric cancer Stage II to stage IV.
  • (5) From 1975 to 1987, 170 unresectable esophageal carcinomas were curatively irradiated.
  • (6) Fifty-seven patients underwent local excision of an invasive distal rectal cancer as an initial operative procedure with curative intent.
  • (7) The presence of vital and sensitive organs such as the spinal cord, heart, and lungs makes curative radiotherapy of non-small cell lung cancer difficult to implement and necessitates use of oblique portals.
  • (8) The curators Pickering and Kaus have painstakingly trawled through the records that may accompany bones for clues.
  • (9) Further studies are needed to assess the curative efficacy with different dosage regimens.
  • (10) Oxygen administered after arthritis is advanced still exerted a significant curative effect.
  • (11) Survival rates after curative gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer among 238 patients in whom the cancer was invading the serosa were compared with 283 patients without serosal invasion.
  • (12) Salbutamol showed the same protective and curative effect in 30 patients proved in the same way as described before.
  • (13) Drainage of the hematoma was uniformly curative, although six patients had transient postoperative symptoms.
  • (14) The development of dental policy may be benefited by modifying the curative-treatment model of care to one that is preventive-behavioralist oriented.
  • (15) Detection of free malignant cells in the peritoneal cavity following curative resections of colorectal cancer may explain why some patients develop local or peritoneal recurrence after favourable operations.
  • (16) Echography is the method of choice for the study of hydatidosis, since it permits the diagnosis of cysts, the long-term monitoring of patients, and via the use of an echo-guided needle, the performance of cytological, chemical and cultural studies, as well as curative treatment by means of percutaneous drainage and sterilisation with alcohol.
  • (17) Fifty-seven patients with poor prognostic factors following resection with curative intent for gastric adenocarcinoma (T3 or T4, positive lymph nodes, positive resection line) received adjuvant radiotherapy.
  • (18) In the absence of any curative treatment, surgery was required to relieve obstruction and an operation was performed via an antero-lateral extra-pharyngeal approach.
  • (19) Local or regional recurrence without evidence of distant metastases was identified in 11 per cent of cases after 'curative' resections.
  • (20) Unfortunately, despite being a much better tolerated curative procedure involving a very brief hospitalization, the use of high-energy direct current (DC) shocks is associated with a low but significant incidence of serious complications including cardiac perforation, hypotension, coronary artery spasm, and late occurrence of ventricular fibrillation.

Heal


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health.
  • (v. t.) To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; -- said of a disease or a wound.
  • (v. t.) To restore to original purity or integrity.
  • (v. t.) To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions.
  • (v. i.) To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals; -- sometimes with up or over; as, it will heal up, or over.
  • (v. t.) Health.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Together these observations suggest that cytotactin is an endogenous cell surface modulatory protein and provide a possible mechanism whereby cytotactin may contribute to pattern formation during development, regeneration, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
  • (2) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
  • (3) Five patients have been examined by defecography before and four after closure of a loop ileostomy performed to cover healing of the pouch and ileoanal anastomoses.
  • (4) The ulcers on seven of ten legs (70%) treated with Unna's boots and on 10 of 14 legs (71%) treated with elastic support stocking healed.
  • (5) Grafts of intermediate thickness (M III) showed excellent clinical healing of the donor and the recipient site.
  • (6) In the controlled wound care group, only three ulcers in three patients achieved complete healing; the remaining 24 ulcers in 20 patients failed to achieve even 50% healing in the stipulated 3-month period.
  • (7) To investigate the possibility that an abnormality of gastric emptying exists in duodenal ulcer and to determine if such an abnormality persists after ulcer healing, scintigraphic gastric emptying measurements were undertaken in 16 duodenal ulcer patients before, during, and after therapy with cimetidine; in 12 patients with pernicious anemia, and in 12 control subjects.
  • (8) Survival and healing of "extremely severe" grade intoxication can only be obtained through a surgical intervention within the first hours; a laparotomy will indicate the depth of the lesions, which is not determined by endoscopy, and will consist of Celerier's stripping method and if necessary a gastrectomy, more seldom a cephalic duodeno-pancreatectomy.
  • (9) It was concluded that a few days delay between trauma and treatment did not necessarily lead to a delayed healing.
  • (10) Lateral upper and lower lid lysis allows the needed extended period of healing.
  • (11) Conservatively treated compressed fractures of the distal radius dorsal metaphysis healed despite primarily good reduction and consequent treatment with a decrease in dorsal length.
  • (12) Both models showed the expected wound-healing defects of the diabetic rats.
  • (13) The prognosis was adversely affected by obesity, preoperative flexion contracture of 30 degrees or more, wound-healing problems, wound infection, and postoperative manipulation under general anesthesia.
  • (14) This, however will not result in normal lower leg bones, as can be concluded from the fact that spontaneous fractures have occurred partly even in the locomotor apparatus after the pseudarthroses had healed.
  • (15) The patient experienced an uneventful recovery and at the 6-week follow-up, the pelvic organs were within the normal limit and all wounds had healed.
  • (16) No perforations, stenoses or thermic lesions after wound healing were observed.
  • (17) Instead of healing the nation after a fractious referendum he inflamed the situation.
  • (18) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
  • (19) Experiments have been performed using CO2 laser-assisted microvascular anastomoses, and they demonstrated the following features, in comparison with conventional anastomoses: ease in technique; less time consumption; less tissue inflammation; early wound healing; equivalency of patency rate and inner pressure tolerance; but only about 50 percent of the tensile strength of manual-suture anastomosis.
  • (20) These results suggest that the bacterium may not play an important pathogenetic role in ulcer healing and relapse, when patients are managed using an H2-blocker.

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