(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.
Neurotomy
Definition:
(n.) The dissection, or anatomy, of the nervous system.
(n.) The division of a nerve, for the relief of neuralgia, or for other purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Selective extrinsic neurotomy of either compartment abolished all responses.
(2) Thirteen Rana pipiens underwent unilateral sciatic neurotomy and were sacrificed weekly as long as 46 days.
(3) This target phenomenon and the contraction artefacts could be inhibited in the tenotomized muscles by simultaneous neurotomy or immobilization of the muscle with a plaster cast.
(4) The neurotomy and the nerve graft were repaired on one side by microsurgical suture technique using 10-0 nylon suture.
(5) The results were effective, with a 1 to 13 year follow-up (5 on average), in 89% of 47 Selective Peripheral Neurotomies of the tibial nerve for spastic foot, in 92% of 53 Selective Posterior Rhizotomies for paraplegia and in 87% of 23 Selective Posterior Rhizotomies for hemiplegia.
(6) Brief hyperoxic tests induced transient decreases in tidal volume and increases in end-tidal CO2 pressure which were significantly larger at 40 degrees C than at 37 degrees C. These changes disappeared after bilateral carotid neurotomy.
(7) Effect of 1,25(OH)2(Me)2D3 on osteopenia in rats induced by ovariectomy and right sciatic neurotomy was higher than that of 1,25(OH)2D3.
(8) Various surgical therapeutic procedures have been described, including neurotomy of the glossopharyngeal nerve in the frontal neck, thermocoagulation of Andersch's ganglion, and para-pontine neurotomy (Dandy).
(9) In the animals with one of these neurotomies plus contralateral ovariectomy, the fertility increased to 100%.
(10) The effects of a 3-week treatment with the nonsteroidal "antiestrogen" tamoxifen were determined on cortical and trabecular bone mass of the tibiae of growing male rats that had undergone unilateral sciatic neurotomy (USN).
(11) The cases with ovarian neurotomy and contralateral ovariectomy exhibited a greater number of implantations in the uterine horn on the side of the neurotomy as compared with the control rats.
(12) This paper deals with the long term results of Selective Peripheral Neurotomies of the Tibial Nerve and Selective Posterior Rhizotomies in the Dorsal Root Entry Zone, in 123 patients with spastic disorders localized to the limbs.
(13) Major radioactive peaks in axonal endings of the proximal stump 18 h after neurotomy, identified by autoradiography of microelectrophoregrams, had apparent molecular weights of 52,000d, 41,000d and 18,000d.
(14) The effect of anhydrous glycerol on both spontaneous firing from the neuroma and impulse propagation within the nerve was examined in 11 rats that had undergone saphenous neurotomy 7 days previously.
(15) Nerve sections were performed by two methods: 1) bilateral SLN-s, RLN-s and cervical vagal neurotomy (horizontal method); 2) right-sided neurotomies of SLN, RLN and vagus followed by left-sided neurotomies of these nerves (vertical method).
(16) In the sciatic neurotomy group of rats, neither trabecular number nor width significantly changed at 12 weeks after surgery.
(17) To investigate the effects of trigeminal denervation on the corneal epithelium, left postganglionic trigeminal neurotomy via intracranial approach was performed in 22 rabbits.
(18) All subjects underwent vestibular neurotomy via the retro-sigmoid approach.
(19) These results suggest that following pancreatic neurotomy, the potential for pancreatic regeneration continues over a longer period after major pancreatectomy.
(20) Bone atrophy induced by immobilization through sciatic and femoral neurotomy and that induced by isograft transplantation were thus shown to differ.