What's the difference between dirigible and steerable?
Dirigible
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being directed; steerable; as, a dirigible balloon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Highlights include a stiffly worded letter from a gentleman complaining to the home secretary about the lack of sanitary towels for suffragettes in Holloway (while avoiding using the phrase “sanitary towels”) and a Daily Express article about Miss Muriel Matters who took to a dirigible to drop paper bills on parliament in return for their “dropping” of the women’s suffrage bills.
(2) Les dirigeants mondiaux qui se retrouvent à Paris, espèrent limiter la hausse de la température moyenne sur Terre à 2°C maximum – mais les analyses montrent que leurs engagements à réduire les émissions ne permettraient que d’en arriver à 3°C .
(3) Johann Carl George Fricke, the first "dirigating surgeon" of the newly erected General Hospital in Hamburg (1823) has taken up these suggestions and carried out similar investigations on two patients.
(4) He accused him of wasting money on crackpot schemes, including a suggestion that the city could use inflatable dirigible balloons to rescue swimmers who got into difficulties.
(5) High above the Philip Marlowe world, hover cars swoop and dirigible billboards float by.
(6) The last time Brazil experienced such a deep slump was in 1901, when soldiers were still fighting the last Indian war and aviator Santos Dumont was making a name for himself by flying around the Eiffel Tower in a dirigible.
Steerable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being steered; dirigible.
Example Sentences:
(1) The steerable guide wire enabled the angioscopic catheter to be accurately and safely inserted into the target lesion in all cases.
(2) This was accomplished by use of a new coaxial infusion catheter-steerable guidewire system passed through the superior mesenteric artery and posterior pancreatic arcade.
(3) The transducertip is connected with a handle by a flexible yet steerable shaft.
(4) A steerable brush was described several years ago, but it was somewhat difficult to accurately maneuver, and long-term results were never reported.
(5) The most significant technical problems were lack of steerability and insufficient irrigation, which resulted in poor angiographic images.
(6) However, the introduction of the steerable or guidewire-directed dilation catheter has altered the learning curve.
(7) After identification of the earliest retrograde atrial activation site, a steerable 7F catheter (with a 4-mm-long electrode at the distal tip) was placed within the ventricular cavity ipsilateral to the accessory connection and positioned at the atrioventricular valve annulus directly opposite the earliest point of retrograde atrial activation.
(8) In the remaining four dogs a steerable guide wire was advanced across the thrombus and a catheter was passed over the guide wire and exchanged for a 200 micron core optical fiber.
(9) We present our experience with open-ended guidewire (OEGW) associated with steerable guidewires (SGW) as superselective catheters for intraarterial chemotherapeutic infusion and embolization.
(10) The development of a steerable hysteroscope should enhance the potential for the transcervical approach and the types of devices that can be implanted.
(11) Incomplete studies in approximately 14% of patients were related to failure to achieve these technical details and lack of scope steerability.
(12) A 7 F steerable large tip catheter was used for energy delivery.
(13) Thus: 1) the 3F Doppler coronary catheter is nonobstructing, steerable and safe; 2) there is an excellent correlation of blood flow velocity with volume collections; and 3) the catheter provides a reliable method of determining coronary blood flow velocity and coronary vasodilator reserve.
(14) These 20 consecutive steerable coronary angioplasty procedures included eight single left anterior descending lesions, two double (lesions located in series) left anterior descending lesions, six single right coronary lesions, one double (lesions located in series) right coronary lesion, and three single circumflex lesions.
(15) Of the 90 attempts with the exclusive use of the steerable system, 75 were successful (83%).
(16) With modern materials such as steerable guide wires and low-profile balloon catheters, dilation of crural arteries has become safe.
(17) However, on occasion steerable guidewire placement remains extremely difficult, despite significantly improved means of intracoronary manipulations.
(18) The steerable guiding catheter described here may prove useful for PTCA in cases where a conventional catheter cannot be placed accurately or in cases with multi-vessel coronary disease.
(19) A steerable system was used in 29 patients whereas a fixed guide wire system was used in 38.
(20) We used a guiding catheter, a coronary infusion catheter, and a relatively stiff steerable guide wire to perforate the occlusion.