What's the difference between dissector and lance?

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.

Lance


Definition:

  • (n.) A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
  • (n.) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
  • (n.) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
  • (n.) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
  • (n.) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
  • (v. t.) To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
  • (v. t.) To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
  • (v. t.) To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 8.17pm BST Meanwhile... Lance Lynn is having a bad day over at Busch Stadium.
  • (2) They revealed that Lance Corporal Craig Roberts, who died in searing temperatures on the Brecon Beacons, had been about to begin a new post in the office of the education secretary.
  • (3) Lance Sergeant Darren Shaw, whose daughter was two weeks old when he left for Afghanistan, said the parade would bring closure to the Afghan tour "then we can get ready and move on to what our next tasks are".
  • (4) The coroner, Alan Craze, blamed poor communication and lack of organisation for the death of Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard, who was killed by a gunshot wound to the chest and abdomen in the "blue on blue" incident in Helmand province.
  • (5) Six years and three months on, it was Landis's predecessor, Lance Armstrong in the eye of the storm as speculation built over what he might or might not have revealed to Oprah Winfrey.
  • (6) 1.06am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 3rd And Clay faces Lance Lynn to start off the third, and the Superman-character named pitcher works a decent at-bat, working the count to 2-2 and then fouling off the next two pitches and taking ball three to a full count.
  • (7) Lance Payton, a freelance hairdresser in his late 40s from Bath, who joined the Tories seven years ago, is one exception in his green-and-pink tartan suit.
  • (8) Lance Armstrong held the meanest grudges in cycling, in effect ruining the career of Christophe Bassons after the French rider dared to talk publicly about doping.
  • (9) He said the "blue on blue" death of Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard in Sangin during their tour in the winter of 2009-10 was symptomatic of the problems British soldiers faced in tackling the Taliban.
  • (10) Cardinals 6 Brewers 4 Top 3rd: Lance Berkman follows Pujols with a ground out to second.
  • (11) 1.23am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 1, top of the 4th Dustin Pedroia, quiet most of this postseason, is up to salvage anything here, it seems improbable that these Sox hitters can be rendered mute by Lance freaking Lynn, but so it goes.
  • (12) It is a major blow to the image of a team that commissioned anti-doping consultant Nicki Vance to conduct an independent review of their operations and staff in the wake of the Lance Armstrong scandal.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lance Stephenson has become unstuck in time.
  • (14) And it worked by finally lancing the boil that had been swelling ugly all week.
  • (15) In the chaos that followed, and believing he was firing at an insurgent, a sniper, Lance Corporal Malcolm Graham, took aim.
  • (16) In the wake of the Lance Armstrong case , the revelations emerging from the Operation Puerto trial in Spain and the dire picture painted by the Australian Crime Commission investigation into organised crime and drugs, the Wada director general David Howman has admitted the problem is getting "bigger and more serious" and is "getting too big for sport to manage".
  • (17) This is the first reference in the medical literature of the unilateral localization in the Lance-Adams syndrome.
  • (18) For many, fantasy is typified by The Lord of the Rings ; Miéville worked up a righteous fury against Tolkien's "cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos", calling him "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature" and setting out to "lance the boil".
  • (19) Previous experiments had shown that motoneurons are specified to project to their appropriate target muscles prior to axon outgrowth and that they respond to cues in the limb in order to grow to those targets (C. Lance-Jones and L. Landmesser, 1980, J. Physiol.
  • (20) I got Lance’s number from one of the boys at St Helens.

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