What's the difference between entrap and snare?

Entrap


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although alum adsorbed allergen could induce IgE synthesis in mice primed with liposome entrapped allergen the increase in serum specific IgE levels was lower than the animals primed and challenged with alum adsorbed allergen.
  • (2) While acromioclavicular joint injury is not uncommon, a complete posterior dislocation in which the distal clavicle penetrates and is entrapped by the trapezius muscle is among the most rare.
  • (3) DNA is entrapped in polyacrylamide gel particles which can then be used in standard column chromatographic procedures.
  • (4) Urate oxidase from hog liver (urate: oxygen oxidoreductase, EC 1.7.33) has been entrapped in a crosslinked 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate gel with a 47% retention of activity.
  • (5) A case of entrapment in the right ventricle after repair of a ventricular septal defect is presented and a method for percutaneous removal described.
  • (6) Entrapment of the ring finger flexor digitorum in the ulna following fracture of both forearm bones is very rare.
  • (7) Early complications included disc entrapment against the ventricular wall in three cases, wedging of chorda between disc and valve rim in two and posterior perforation of the left ventricle in three patients.
  • (8) Renal excretion of 3H from liposome-entrapped [3H]methotrexate was considerably less than that of 3H from free [3H]methotrexate.
  • (9) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
  • (10) When a supercoiled substrate bearing two FLP target sequences in inverse orientation is treated with FLP, the products are multiply knotted structures that arise as a result of random entrapment of interdomainal supercoils.
  • (11) Accelerating test at a constant temperature indicates that liposome-entrapped Ara-A has certain chemical stability.
  • (12) One patient was submitted to surgical exploration, and 'entrapment neuropathy' was found to be the cause.
  • (13) Liver microsomes from phenobarbital induced rats are entrapped in capsules prepared from polyelectrolytes.
  • (14) To assess the immunomodulating effect of allergen entrapped in liposomes, Swiss strain mice (made IgE responders) were injected with either free allergen or liposome-entrapped allergen (LEA) and their immune response was measured in terms of specific IgG and specific IgE levels.
  • (15) The results of double-label staining suggest the formation of LDL-DNA-IgG complexes which seem to be entrapped in cells more actively than free LDL.
  • (16) The damning comments by Judge Alistair McCreath both vindicated Contostavlos – who insisted she was entrapped by the reporter into promising to arrange a cocaine deal – and potentially brought down the curtain on the long and controversial career of Mahmood, better known as the "fake sheikh" after one of his common disguises.
  • (17) The effect of stabilization temperature, protein concentration and stabilization time on the entrapment and recovery of adriamycin in microspheres have been investigated using a 2 x 4 x 4 factorial design.
  • (18) The popliteal artery entrapment syndrome can be diagnosed by computer tomography with a greater degree of certainty than by angiography.
  • (19) A penile problem that physicians are confronted with in the emergency room is entrapment of the foreskin by a zipper fastener.
  • (20) That pulmonary entrapment had taken place was shown by a 3-fold increase in lung specific radioactivity.

Snare


Definition:

  • (n.) A contrivance, often consisting of a noose of cord, or the like, by which a bird or other animal may be entangled and caught; a trap; a gin.
  • (n.) Hence, anything by which one is entangled and brought into trouble.
  • (n.) The gut or string stretched across the lower head of a drum.
  • (n.) An instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion.
  • (v. t.) To catch with a snare; to insnare; to entangle; hence, to bring into unexpected evil, perplexity, or danger.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.
  • (2) The effects of coronary reperfusion on the uptake of digoxin by ischemic myocardium were studied in 17 open chest dogs undergoing anterior wall infarction produced by snaring confluent branches of the left coronary arterial system.
  • (3) Was Snare genuine, was the painting stolen, was he making it up?
  • (4) Different grades of stenoses were created by snares.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Laura Cumming beside Velázquez’s Portrait of a Man at Apsley House, where John Snare would also have seen it.
  • (6) With the venae cavae snared, temperatures in the right atrial septum were not significantly different from those measured simultaneously in the right ventricle.
  • (7) In this artificial vessel (but not in a glass model) a snare stenosis caused reduction in flow when outflow pressure was lowered.
  • (8) Atrial preservation was ensured by combining systemic (24 degrees C) and topical hypothermia with snared double caval cannulation during arrest.
  • (9) In 2 patients the tumor was excised by snare, in 4 patients a surgical resection was carried out.
  • (10) So we looped them into the reel-to-reels and crowded round the speakers to hear what their album sounded like – but all we got was the clang of a snare drum.
  • (11) Our method of ER is endoscopic double snare polypectomy.
  • (12) But the experience of Royal Mail, which underwent a similar regime change some years ago, provides a chilling precedent of what aggressive regulators can do, and also of the snare that European competition laws potentially lay for public services when they are transformed into players in a market.
  • (13) Sky's snaring of Lumsden, holder of the most powerful job in British television comedy, and its move into a genre which is traditionally expensive and risky, follows bids by Sky1's director of programmes, Stuart Murphy, a former controller of BBC3, for established hits and talent from its terrestrial rivals.
  • (14) Occluding snares at T-13 limited the effect of raised pressure on the brain.
  • (15) Snare describes the portrait quite clearly: the young Charles with his large liquid eyes and pale face, appearing in three-quarter view without rigidity or outline, the painting as airy as mist (and the prince too young for Van Dyck, who only portrayed Charles in his 30s).
  • (16) After chest closure the common carotid arteries were exposed and immediately ligated or else catheter snares were installed to induce ischemia at a later date.
  • (17) A snare placed around the IA was used to unilaterally decrease renal arterial perfusion pressure (RAPP) for the experimental kidney.
  • (18) Mean aortic pressure was kept nearly constant during the interventions by manipulation of an aortic clamp or a vena caval snare.
  • (19) Graded reductions in uterine and umbilical blood flows were achieved by a hypogastric artery snare and a balloon cuff encircling the umbilical cord.
  • (20) During MVR with complete chordal preservation, snares were placed around the anterior and posterior papillary muscles.