(n.) The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I.
(n.) Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination.
(n.) Anything dissected; especially, some part, or the whole, of an animal or plant dissected so as to exhibit the structure; an anatomical so prepared.
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.
Necrotomy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The following surgical interventions were performed: 193 incisions, 32 amputations of varying extent and 15 large-scale necrotomies.
(2) Based on clinical observations of pyo-necrotic lesions of the foot in patients with diabetic mellitus and on an analysis of their personal operations performed on these patients the authors support the tendency to local necrotomies.
(3) The central necrosis neighboring the surface of the pons or the fourth ventricle was removed with CO2-LASER and cavitron ultrasonic aspirator (necrotomy) and a few pellets were given in the residual tumor in four cases.
(4) The patient was healed by radical necrotomy of the affected fasciae and subcutaneous adipose tissue and via active antibiotic, general tonic and antidiabetic therapy.
(5) After complete necrotomy, continuous irrigation with suction drainage was begun.
(6) From 1975 to 1979 (the first period), the treatment of choice was low-dose irradiation and frequent necrotomy.
(7) They transported him to the University Hospital in Leiden, the Netherlands where physicians did a necrotomy of the scrotal, penile, and perineal skin and removed both testes.
(8) At the second operation for the tumor, cyst formation was clinically confirmed and necrotomy as well as evacuation of the large cyst was performed after adjuvant therapy.
(9) Laser therapy of wounds accomplishes adequate necrotomy, acts aseptically on the wound surfaces, inhibits the wound microbial flora and stimulates the regeneration processes.
(10) The second surgical operation of the recurrent tumor, with necrotomy and evacuation of the large cyst were performed after adjuvant therapy.
(11) 24 hours after necrotomy and bilateral orchiectomy, the necrotizing process had not spread.
(12) A high effectiveness of early necrotomies in the prophylaxis of such deformities is emphasized.
(13) The necrotomy of brain stem glioma and local administration of anti-tumor-agents in residual tumor showed excellent results in some cases.
(14) The surgical principle involved necrotomy, continuous post-operative bursal lavage or biliary sanitation and (or) pancreas drainage in the case of interstitial oedematous pancreatitis.