What's the difference between echoscope and instrument?
Echoscope
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 90 of 10,218 TEE studies (0.88%) with successful probe insertion, the examination had to be interrupted because of the patient's intolerance of the echoscope (65 cases); because of pulmonary (eight cases), cardiac (eight cases), or bleeding complications (two cases); or for other reasons (seven cases).
(2) A correlation has been established between the severity of the clinical picture and echoscopic signs in chronic cholecystitis.
(3) Three circular silver pacing electrodes were installed at a distance of 7,9 and 12 cm from the tip of the echoscope.
(4) Separation of the placenta was examined by the echoscopic and tocographic methods in 62 women who gave birth to healthy full-term babies.
(5) Post partum examination of the placenta correlated well with the echoscopic picture (accuracy = 80.5%).
(6) [1976] for the ultrasonic assessment of liver volume was devised for use with a UI Octoson water delay B mode echoscope, and 32 subjects without clinical history or signs of liver disease were examined.
(7) A pregnancy at risk for leprechaunism was examined and an unaffected child was correctly predicted by study of the functionality of the insulin receptor on cultured amniocytes and by echoscopic examination.
(8) The authors find the double-contrast echoscopic examination of the postoperative uterus highly effective, and much more informative than common ultrasonic examination.
(9) The precision of the results however depends fundamentally on technical data: it is necessary to combine with the classical apparatus, with manual displacement of the wave, a tomo-echoscopic apparatus, with real time; above all, it is necessary to use the degraded intensity scale.
(10) The transducer is incorporated in the echoscope tip measuring 16 by 11 by 40 mm.
(11) The amplitude time characteristics of the after-birth period are presented, and the echoscopic picture of separation of the placenta is described.
(12) Those who were echoscopically examined within one week before delivery were taken into the study (n = 137).
(13) Postpartum examination of the placenta correlated well with the echoscopic picture (accuracy=80.5%).
(14) Neonatal ultrasound scanning was performed with an ATL Mk III real time echoscope, and follow up ultrasound scans at the age of 1 were performed with an Octoson static compound scanner.
(15) An octapolar pacing catheter attached to the transesophageal echoscope was used in conjunction with a cardiac stimulator to induce pacing-tachycardia.
(16) After a short notice about ultra-sounds, echoscopic apparati and methods for echoscopic research, they outline the semeiologic characters for echoscopic A-mode diagnostic and they stop on echoscopic obtained pictures: liquid crops, nodulary images with homogeneus echostructure scarcely ecogena and nodulary images with not homogeneus echostructure highly ecogena.
(17) Such measurements provide a physiological test object which is freely available and devoid of artefact for assessing resolution by ultrasonic echoscopes.
(18) The described apparatus has been designed to give an on-line visual indication of the instantaneous frequency of foetal breathing movements when measured by a time-distance recorder connected to an echoscope.
(19) Three infants with lung hypoplasia had their membranes ruptured before 20 weeks' gestation and showed echoscopically a persistent oligohydramnios, as did the one with rupture at 26 weeks.
(20) Combined echoscopic and echographic examination enables accurate display of the pancreatic region.
Instrument
Definition:
(n.) That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical instruments.
(n.) A contrivance or implement, by which musical sounds are produced; as, a musical instrument.
(n.) A writing, as the means of giving formal expression to some act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, as a deed, contract, writ, etc.
(n.) One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium, means, or agent.
(v. t.) To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument; as, a sonata instrumented for orchestra.
Example Sentences:
(1) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
(2) Breast temperatures have been measured by the automated instrumentation called the 'Chronobra' for 16 progesterone cycles in women at normal risk for breast cancer and for 15 cycles in women at high risk for breast cancer.
(3) After a review of the technical development and application of staplers from their introduction to the present day, the indications to the use of this instrument in all gastroenterological areas from the oesophagus to the rectum as well as in chest, gynaecological and urological surgery specified.
(4) Short-forms of Wechsler intelligence tests have abounded in the literature and have been recommended for use as screening instruments in clinical and research settings.
(5) Atrioventricular (AV) delay that results in maximum ventricular filling and physiological mechanisms that govern dependence of filling on timing of atrial systole were studied by combining computer experiments with experiments in the anesthetized dog instrumented to measure phasic mitral flow.
(6) The instrument is a definite aid to the surgeon, and does not penalize the time required for surgery.
(7) Furthermore, the AMDP-3 scale and its manual constitute a remarkable teaching instrument for psychopathology, not always enough appreciated.
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(9) Clinical use of this instrument is no more difficult than conventional immersion ultrasonography.
(10) The performance of the instrument was evaluated by undertaking in vitro measurements of the reflectance spectra of blood.
(11) Several recommendations, based upon the results of this survey study, the existing literature relevant to the ethical responsibilities of investigators who conduct research with children, and our own experiences with these instruments and populations, are made to assist researchers in their attempts to use these inventories in an ethical manner.
(12) Utilizing standardized instruments, family and demographic predictors of general and problem-solving knowledge pertaining to diabetes were identified in 53 newly diagnosed children.
(13) A compact attachment for microscope-type instruments is described enabling to introduce, rapidly and qualitatively, minute biological speciments into melted embedding medium and ensuring the safety of optics.
(14) This paper considers the advantages and disadvantages of the instrument together with indications for its use and reviews 118 patients who had 130 oral lesions removed with the CO2 laser.
(15) The inflammatory response is active in the embryo midway through incubation and is probably instrumental in protection of the embryo.
(16) To examine the possibility of prolongation of the standing times of instrument disinfectants, in vitro tests under high albumin exposure and tests in clinical practice were done.
(17) This, too, is a functional technique although the method and instruments are totally different.
(18) One abutment was used to evaluate each of nine oral hygiene instrumentation methods used for specified lengths of time or instrument strokes.
(19) Out-patient treatment, instrumentation and postgraduated teaching is dealt with.
(20) There is considerable evidence to suggest that intra-alveolar plasminogen activation is instrumental in many aspects of inflammatory lung injury and subsequent tissue repair.