(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.
Dissert
Definition:
(v. i.) To discourse or dispute; to discuss.
Example Sentences:
(1) At university she did her dissertation on child sexual abuse and prostitution, but became inspired to campaign against sexual violence when she volunteered for the organisation that stages the one-woman play, the Vagina Monologues.
(2) We reviewed four unpublished dissertations that used Levinson's theory to study women's adult development.
(3) • Students would be stretched by being asked to write dissertations of up to 5,000 words.
(4) The purpose of his dissertation, he added, was to analyse "how to create more just and democratic global governing institutions", focusing on the importance of the role of "civil society".
(5) The scientific programme is represented by 21 books, 388 papers and 158 dissertations.
(6) Firstly we turn to Will Bouma, who with a degree in Environmental Studies and a 2003 dissertation entitled 'Greening Football, Environmental Management in Premier League Football' should know what he is talking about.
(7) This article is motivated by the current hypothesis [Kim et al., Psychological, Physiological and Behavioural Studies in Hearing (Delft U. P., The Netherlands, 1980); Neely, Doctoral dissertation, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (1981); de Boer, J. Acoust.
(8) A simple technique, developed in Phillips (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, 1987), is used to approximate cov(theta MH, pi), i = 1, 2, where theta MH is the Mantel-Haenszel log-odds-ratio estimator for a 2 x 2 x K table and the pi are the sample marginal proportions.
(9) After completing his doctoral dissertation in Germany, Bergoglio served as a confessor and spiritual director in Cordoba.
(10) The 'three-point-attachment model' of the substrate splitting, proposed by Daniels [(1983) Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh] for the analogous liver enzyme, was applicable for beta-D-glucosidase from pig kidney too.
(11) Finally, the parameters used to describe the stopped flow results can also be used to simulate quantitatively O2 uptake time courses obtained from previous studies with thin films of red cells (Sinha, A. K. (1969) Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Francisco; Thews, G. (1959) Arch.
(12) The search produced references to 2,431 journal articles, 102 books, 79 popular magazine articles, and 551 doctoral dissertations.
(13) This is very positive and welcome news and a key recommendation of my dissertation, however the findings show that this news alone won't make all the difference.
(14) A 3, 1173 (1986)] and their failure to acknowledge the magnitude scaling aspect of B. C. Wilson's work [B. C. Wilson, Ph.D. dissertation (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1964)].
(15) She said she is withholding around £400 in rent after continuous disruptions – including workmen walking past her window all day long and a rodent infestation – made it impossible for her to stay while she completed her master’s dissertation.
(16) The scientific programme is represented by two books, 197 papers and 117 dissertations.
(17) 2 recent dissertations (Hughes, 1988; Miller, 1986) from the University of Waterloo are summarized, each of which supports the neodissociative view that hypnotic behavior can be purposeful (in the sense that the suggested state of affairs is achieved) and nonvolitional (in the sense that the suggested state of affairs is not achieved by high level executive initiative and ongoing effort).
(18) D. in medicine could be obtained after having defended the inaugural dissertation.
(19) The Italian prosecutors have been keen to find out whose idea it was that Regeni should write his PhD dissertation on independent unions, and the street vendors’ union especially.
(20) On the basis of the author's examinations described in his candidate's dissertation "syndesmolysis trigonum"--pathognostic for syndesmolysis--is dealt with.