What's the difference between extirpate and obliterate?

Extirpate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Prompt diagnosis, in which timely diagnostic laparoscopy and ultrasound evaluation of the pelvis may be helpful, provides the opportunity for prompt laparotomy with untwisting of the torsion and stabilization of the adnexa by suture and cystectomy, if possible, extirpation if not.
  • (2) Resection of the peritracheal segments of the thyroid gland with the isthmus extirpation was performed.
  • (3) 7 cases with bronchiectasis of left lower lobe and lingular segment were treated with left lower lobectomy and extirpation of the bronchi of lingular segment.
  • (4) Experiments were performed with eight head and neck tumors following their surgical extirpation.
  • (5) The activities of the tumour centre have proved extremely valuable as it contributes to establishing more general lines concerning biopsy, attempted total extirpation, observation, or enucleation, to the benefit of patients as well as research.
  • (6) Nine rat livers were extirpated after core cooling, preserved for six hours in University of Wisconsin (UW) solution at 4 degrees C and then were connected to a perfusion chamber (hypothermic preservation group: 6-hr HP group).
  • (7) A cavernous angioma of the tentorium cerebelli, first disclosed by perinatal serial ultrasonographic studies, was extirpated totally without remarkable neurological deficit in a neonate.
  • (8) Studies such as these have led increasing numbers of women to elect immediate breast reconstruction as opposed to delaying that reconstruction for months or even years after the tumor extirpation.
  • (9) A case is reported in a young healthy pregnant woman, who developed a granuloma gravidarum on the right side of her nasal septum, recurring several times after delivery in spite of extirpation.
  • (10) Seven patients underwent surgical extirpation or section of the vestibular nerve, and seven patients underwent labyrinthectomy without vestibular nerve section.
  • (11) None of the extirpated grafts had the same histologic pattern as the eutopic endometrium.
  • (12) Morbidity from local manifestations of the tumor left in situ was markedly increased, whereas those patients afforded an extirpative operation had a much improved quality of life.
  • (13) Extirpation of this tumor disclosed yellowish white, homogeneous mass, 101 g in weight and 7 by 7 by 3.5 cm in diameter.
  • (14) The treatment of patients with Wilms' tumour was narrowly coordinated by the program consisting of the surgical extirpation of the tumour, postoperative irradiation of the tumorous area at degrees II, III, IV and V and intensive adjuvant chemiotherapy.
  • (15) All three patients were treated with radical extirpation.
  • (16) Primary therapy for those patients (1979-1983) had been definitive extirpation with adjuvant therapy determined by histologic grade, histologic subtype, myometrial invasion, and peritoneal cytologic findings.
  • (17) Of these, approximately 23% (four of 17) had recovered auditory function before acoustic neuroma extirpation.
  • (18) A craniotomy followed by a bilateral external ethmoidectomy was necessary for complete extirpation of the infected mucoceles.
  • (19) The removal of the affected uterus together with the pelvic lymph nodes and the extirpation of a vaginal cuff should be obligatory.
  • (20) Exploratory laparotomy revealed the mass to be appendiceal adenocarcinoma, which was treated with extirpation of all the visible tumor and repair of the anatomic defect.

Obliterate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.
  • (v. t.) To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity.
  • (a.) Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A new technique to obliterate the mastoid volume or to reduce an old cavity by means of hydroxyapatite granulate is presented.
  • (2) The dilemma focuses on whether the obliteration or removal of the cystic areas will benefit or cause further deterioration of the patient's condition.
  • (3) The peculiar configuration of the pneumocephalus is attributed to the partial obliteration of the subarachnoid space due to the increased intracranial pressure.
  • (4) On 26 April 1937 this market town was obliterated in three hours of bombing by Nazi planes, allies of Generalísimo Francisco Franco’s fascists in the Spanish civil war.
  • (5) It is concluded that obliteration of oesophageal varices by endoscopic sclerotherapy and propranolol may be more effective in the long-term control of variceal recurrence than treatment with sclerotherapy only.
  • (6) Practolole, a selective beta1-adrenoblocking agent, potentiates the effect of cordarone on the myocardium and also obliterates the difference between the effects of the drug in animals under general anesthesia and in free behavior.
  • (7) Neutral dextran clearances for radii greater than 30 A were elevated during the PEAK period, and, concurrently, there was extensive intraglomerular microthrombosis, obliteration of foot processes, and disruption of filtration slit diaphragms.
  • (8) Obliteration of the endolymphatic duct resulted in endolymphatic hydrops of varying severity in 55% of the rats, after survival times varying from one to five months.
  • (9) Obliteration of the right endolymphatic sac was performed by Kimura's method in 57 guinea pigs with normal hearing and vestibular function.
  • (10) Soft tissue obliteration with autograft bone paste is the most versatile and commonly used technique.
  • (11) Obliteration of the empty sella with an extradural silicone balloon via the transsphenoidal approach seemed to have been effective for headache and visual complaints of primary empty sella syndrome which did not respond to medical therapy.
  • (12) Discoloration and pulpal obliteration were the major manifestations.
  • (13) The treatment was almost only in those angiopathies successful, in which the fluorescein angiography showed a preponderance of the hyperpermeability over the obliterating process of retinal capillaries.
  • (14) In conclusion, obliteration of the inner margin of the central vein and the opacity that decreased the radiolucency extending to the peripheral side of the upper lobe bronchus are strongly suggestive of interlobar lymph node enlargement.
  • (15) The veins which are not compressable during erection can eventually be obliterated under radiological control with the help of mini-coils.
  • (16) Direct injection of gastric varices is difficult because of increased postsclerotherapy bleeding, but sclerosis of esophageal varices often leads to their obliteration by the caudad flow of sclerosant.
  • (17) The prerequisites to achieve this goal are: the radical exenteration of the mastoid, antrum and epitympanum, the maximal reduction of the volume of the cavity by extensive lateral removal of bone and the adequate shaping of the cavity walls by obliteration of the bone pockets.
  • (18) In 20-35 per cent of short (up to 05 cm) urethral stenosis or cicatricial obliterations of urethra it was found advisable to start the treatment with nonoperative technique.
  • (19) Polypropylene mesh is then passed down the laparoscope, placed into the defect to obliterate the space, and the edges of the peritoneum are then reapproximated.
  • (20) A combined morphological and physiological study on the effect of saccus obliteration on the cochlea and the vestibular labyrinth of the rat is presented.