What's the difference between extractor and extructor?
Extractor
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, extracts
(n.) A forceps or instrument for extracting substances.
(n.) A device for withdrawing a cartridge or spent cartridge shell from the chamber of the barrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Extractor-Centri-dot system demonstrated 61.9% sensitivity and 95.8% specificity in detecting the ANT(2") gene in stool samples containing colonies demonstrating the ANT(2") phenotype.
(2) During long-term treatment with the converting enzyme inhibitor enalapril, peripheral plasma angiotensin II was lowered, while active renin concentration was markedly elevated, both in arterial plasma and in renal venous plasma of the stenotic kidney; the contralateral kidney became a net extractor of active renin.
(3) Removal of broken femoral stems continues to be a difficult technical procedure in hip replacement surgery, despite the development of metal drilling devices and special extractors placed into the drill hole.
(4) All stages of the procedure are carried out using the Brown and semi-automatic extractor equipped with partition tube.
(5) If albumin was substituted for starch in the extractor solution or if the starch-pigment complex was disrupted by treatment with amylase or by boiling, the four-peak pigment rapidly and irreversibly degraded to a second type with a single absorption band at 415 nm.
(6) In the course of the evaluation experiment several kinds of speech stimuli including clean speech, bandpass-filtered speech, and noisy speech were presented to three different pitch extractors.
(7) A case of successful removal of a residual upper ureteral stone (9 X 6 mm) by Rutner balloon dilatation helical stone extractor which moved from renal pelvis during percutaneous nephrolithotomy for right renal pelvic stone (12 X 11 mm), is reported.
(8) Two hundred and ninety-five children delivered by vacuum extractor (VE) 10 years ago were studied to determine if they had an increased incidence of neurological abnormality; 302 children delivered spontaneously in the same hospital looked after by the same doctors in the same year matched for maternal age, gestational age and birthweight were used as controls.
(9) A vacuum extractor was successfully used to elevate a depressed fracture of the parietal bone in a newborn.
(10) The mechanisms of failure included metal breakage at three different locations along the rod or the rod extractor.
(11) Delivery was completed by an application of vacuum extractor.
(12) Disulfide reducing agents such as dithiothreitol (DTT), blocking agents such as p-chloromercuribenzoate (PCMB) (both in the presence of deoxycholate [DOC]), a Ca++ extractor, ethylene glycol-bis (beta- aminoethyl ether) N,N,N',N'-tetraacetate (EGTA), and guanidine caused an opening up of the native dense PSD structure, revealing approximately 10-nm filaments, presumably consisting of "neurofilament" protein.
(13) There is no statistically-significant difference in the incidence of brain injury in infants delivered by means of forceps as compared with the vacuum extractor; there is, however, a significant increase in incidence of brain injury in infants following instrument-aided delivery as opposed to spontaneous delivery.
(14) It is usually delivered by means of O2 extractors, to which may be added small flasks of O2 gas for walking and moving about.
(15) The introduction of vacuum extractors with silicone rubber cups into obstetric units should be encouraged.
(16) The author extracts them by the intrauterine BMK-extractor (Instrumntalia, Zagreb) of his own construction.
(17) Babies born by the means of the vacuum extractor ran an increased risk of cephalhematoma and neonatal jaundice.
(18) The two types of cup were similar in respect of number of failures to deliver with the vacuum extractor, correct positioning of the cup, number of pulls required for delivery and time taken to expedite delivery.
(19) With the aid of this extractor, foreign bodies can be captured and removed quickly, reliably, and without risk to the patient.
(20) 123 women with singleton pregnancies of 37 completed weeks or more, with a cephalic presentation and for whom a decision to deliver by vacuum extraction had been taken, were randomly allocated to the 'New Generation' cup or BIRD's original vacuum extractor cup; 50 mm anterior and posterior cups were used in both groups as appropriate.