(v. t.) To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize.
(v. t.) To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(2) Limited biopsic retroperitoneal lymphnode dissection subsequently extended following the result of the frozen section histology.
(3) When the eye was dissected into anterior uveal, scleral, and retinal complexes, prostaglandin D2 was formed in the highest degree in all the complexes, whereas prostaglandin E2 and F2 alpha formation was specific to given ocular regions.
(4) Right orchiectomy and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for embryonal carcinoma had been performed 5 years earlier.
(5) A case of dissecting hematoma involving the left main, left anterior descending, and left circumflex coronary arteries is described in a patient who had received vigorous closed-chest cardiac resuscitation.
(6) Further analysis of these changes according to smoking history, age, preoperative weight, dissection of IMA, and aortic cross-clamp time showed that only IMA dissection affected the postextubation changes in peak expiratory flow rate (p less than 0.0001), whereas the decreases in functional residual capacity and expiratory reserve volume at discharge were affected by IMA dissection (p less than 0.05) and age (p = 0.01).
(7) Moreover, the most recent combined application of the rat interstitial cell testosterone (RICT) bioassay and a novel multiple-parameter deonvolution model has allowed investigators to dissect plasma concentration profiles of bioactive LH into defined secretory bursts, which have numerically explicit amplitudes, locations in time, and durations, and are acted upon by determinable subject- and study-specific endogenous metabolic clearance rates.
(8) Fewer one-cell embryos co-cultured with dissected ampullae for less than 24 h developed to blastocysts than those co-cultured for more than 28 h (P < 0.001).
(9) A prospective randomized study was carried out to discover the influence of the timing of shoulder physiotherapy after-axillary dissection for breast cancer upon the incidence and duration of lymphatic fluid production and seroma after these operations.
(10) When the supraomohyoid neck dissection specimen showed no involvement, the overall incidence of treatment failure in the neck at 2-year follow-up was 5 percent.
(11) The ventral root dissection technique was used to obtain contractile and electromyogram (e.m.g.)
(12) To dissect the epitope specificity of the group-specific neutralizing antibodies, CD4 attachment site-specific antibodies (CD4-site Abs) were isolated from total anti-gp120 Abs by using a CD4-blocked gp120SF2-Sepharose column.
(13) The complete thyroid cartilage is dissected out, and then a horizontal cut is made through the cricoid cartilage.
(14) These findings demonstrate that heteroantisera can provide an additional important tool for dissecting the heterogeneity of T-cell leukemias and for relating them to more differentiated normal T cells.
(15) Under a dissecting microscope the vascular casts revealed direct communications from the skeletal muscle which penetrated deeply into the myocardium.
(16) A new method of anatomic dissection and image reconstruction using computer techniques for better understanding of eustachian tube (ET) functioning is presented.
(17) The authors recall the advantages of low transcartilage incision in rhinoplasty and, by means of several technical details, illustrate the value of this approach in submucosal dissection.
(18) On dissected mucosa stained by the PAS-alcian blue whole-mount method the density and distribution of goblet cells in various parts of the middle ear was determined in 13 children, ranging in age from 9 days to 14 years.
(19) We studied 36 patients (21 women and 15 men) with spontaneous dissection of the internal carotid arteries.
(20) Between March 1986 and September 1988, 38 patients underwent extended aortic resection (aortic valve, ascending aorta, and arch) for acute type-A aortic dissection with aortic valve insufficiency; deep hypothermia and circulatory arrest were used.
Dissector
Definition:
(n.) One who dissects; an anatomist.
Example Sentences:
(1) The digitizing camera, an image dissector, converts a 2 cm2 picture into 400 x 400 numbers each representing the grey level value of sampled point.
(2) In the range 300-430 nm, characteristic concentrations (1% absorption) were 1.6, 2.6, 2.9, and 3.8 ng mL-1 respectively for Cu, Mn, and two Cr lines; these values are similar to those (1.3, 2.2, 1.2, and 3.6 ng mL-1) obtained for single-element detection with an image-dissector system.
(3) A laser bipolar dissector (LBD) using a 1064 nm Nd:YAG laser energy source that provides hemostatic dissection using low-powered laser energy (15-25 W) has been developed.
(4) Several techniques for the exeresis of these secondary peritoneal localizations have been reported, using various processes (electrocoagulation, laser vaporization, classic surgical exeresis) and more recently, the ultrasound dissector.
(5) The image processing system consists of a microscope, an image dissector and a computer (central processing unit, display, teletype, magnetic tape devices and line printer).
(6) We have previously described the development of new hepatic surgical techniques using the ultrasonic surgical dissector.
(7) We therefore strongly recommend that eye shields should be used in hepatic surgery when the ultrasonic dissector is in use.
(8) The cystic duct and artery are bluntly dissected by a commercially available dissector.
(9) Reflected light returns through the objective, exits the camera port, is reflected off the beam splitter, and is imaged on to the photocathode of an image dissector tube (IDT).
(10) The use of the ultrasonic dissector facilitates the performance of transparenchymatous segmental resection without obtaining vascular inflow or outflow control.
(11) This report describes the segmental anatomy of the liver and the use of the ultrasonic dissector.
(12) The Cavalieri principle was used to determine the granule cell layer volume within the dentate gyrus, and the "dissector" method was used to determine numerical densities of these granule cells.
(13) Specifically, the estimation is unbiased when arbitrarily shaped particles are sampled with uniform probability using the dissector or one of its many modifications.
(14) The ultrasonic dissector disintegrated the fat, which was rapidly cleared up the suction channel, allowing the cystic duct and artery to be bared with less risk of injury.
(15) Using the stereological dissector technique, unbiased estimates of the number per neuron were obtained for the following morphological varieties of synapses: axodendritic synaptic junctions involving dendritic shafts, nonperforated axospinous synapses having a continuous postsynaptic density (PSD), and perforated ones distinguished by a fenestrated, horseshoe-shaped, or segmented PSD.
(16) Subjectively, the ultrasonic dissector was thought to be of special value in isolating the hilar structures, particularly when they were edematous or embedded in fat.
(17) A special card has been developed for resording of the results of morphological examinations and the main information on the patient, which is filled by the dissector after autopsy.
(18) The number of synapses per neuron was estimated with the aid of the stereological dissector technique.
(19) Therefore, pulmonary thromboendarterectomy dissectors are described that allow simultaneous suction of blood from the operative field.
(20) The ultrasonic dissector disrupts tissues in proportion to their fluid content by ultrasonically induced cavitational forces.