What's the difference between fastener and staple?

Fastener


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors tested their own technique, using transplants or implants of corium, fascia, dura mater and polyester net, internally in the tendons, fastening them with an external cross suture.
  • (2) A woman who was 30 weeks pregnant was sitting with a three-point seat belt fastened in the front passenger seat of an automobile that was involved in a head-on collision.
  • (3) Total radioactivity, including the volatile part of the solvents were registered by autoradiography of dried, evaporated tape-fastened sections.
  • (4) In order to more effectively separate the walls, a protector was applied consisting of a soft polyethylene tube, whose ends were fastened to the cervix uteri and remained there for 3-4 weeks.
  • (5) A penile problem that physicians are confronted with in the emergency room is entrapment of the foreskin by a zipper fastener.
  • (6) Mohamedou Ould Slahi: “smart, witty, garrulous, and curiously undamaged” Another team inside the plane dragged me and fastened me on a small and straight seat.
  • (7) It is made light-impermeable through the use of nylon hook-and-loop fasteners.
  • (8) Given that the economy is kind of coming back right now, I just didn’t understand why trade was so prominent this race David Lawrence, vice-president, AlphaUSA “Given that the economy is kind of coming back right now, something that is so key to the economy [as trade], I just didn’t understand why it was so prominent this race, and not some other issue,” said David Lawrence, vice-president of AlphaUSA, a fastener manufacturer based in suburban Detroit.
  • (9) Sheets of oil paper fastened vertically to two wires at a height of 60 cm above the ground at a distance of 20 cm one from another (barriers) and sheets in the form of "flags" (Dergachova and others, 1973) were used simultaneously.
  • (10) One group was exposed to the regular hospital program and the other group had, in addition: a mock-up demonstration for the mothers on the correct method of fastening the baby into the car seat and the car seat into the automobile seat; written handouts of how to use a car seat with an infant; a physician's order for the mock-up demonstration; and a physician's order to be discharged in a car seat.
  • (11) Erection, increase in circumference as well as rigidity, can be measured with a simple device consisting of a calibrated felt band with a sliding collar fastened to 1 end.
  • (12) A supporting harness is attached to the mask by use of three flat straps connected by Dot fasteners.
  • (13) Prevention includes feeding with human milk in prematures with slow increase of partial and total volumes, early initial fastening in cases of asphyxia and careful and close surveillance of high-risk newborns.
  • (14) Based on its membrane topology, it has been suggested that MotB might be a linker that fastens the torque-generating machinery to the cell wall.
  • (15) Spontaneous "overnight" deflation of inflatable prostheses is rather uncommon, but we have had a 5.7% incidence of it in a 24-month period in which we used implants with a suturable tab and fastened them to the subjacent fascia.
  • (16) In case of a transverse position of the fetal head, a special fastener on the forceps makes it possible to use an excentric handle on the traction hook of the Kielland forceps and thus render possible rotation of the fetal head from the transverse position.
  • (17) A brightly coloured train rattles across their path and stops abruptly and, after an affectionate hug, the two creatures climb aboard, carefully fasten their seatbelts and are bounced away to a rendezvous with their friends (a lavishly hatted family of peg dolls called the Pontipines; Makka Pakka, a squat, fuzzy troglodyte with OCD, and the Tombliboos, a triumvirate of pastel-coloured pepper pot creatures who live inside a topiary bush).
  • (18) Over a 0.009 inch flexible tip steel wire a diamond-coated brass burr fastened to a flexible drive shaft that rotates and tracks was advanced.
  • (19) Granulation tissue grows through the prosthesis which is fastened well to the connective-tissue cuff forming around it.
  • (20) The extension of the tracheostoma is achieved by means of an parallel incision which widens the trachea with the acid of 2 tough threads on each side, which are fastened to the clavicle.

Staple


Definition:

  • (n.) A settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic.
  • (n.) Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.
  • (n.) The principal commodity of traffic in a market; a principal commodity or production of a country or district; as, wheat, maize, and cotton are great staples of the United States.
  • (n.) The principal constituent in anything; chief item.
  • (n.) Unmanufactured material; raw material.
  • (n.) The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple.
  • (n.) A loop of iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like.
  • (n.) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
  • (n.) A small pit.
  • (n.) A district granted to an abbey.
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or being market of staple for, commodities; as, a staple town.
  • (a.) Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled; as, a staple trade.
  • (a.) Fit to be sold; marketable.
  • (a.) Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
  • (v. t.) To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ten patients have undergone abdominal proctocolectomy with the formation of an ileal reservoir anastomosed onto the anal canal using a stapling device.
  • (2) Anastomotic devascularization has been incriminated in the development of post-operative complications (fistula, stenosis) of circular stapling.
  • (3) It is now recognized that dwarfism in males is frequent around the Mediterranean, where wheat is the staple of life and has been grown for 4,000 years on the same soil, thereby resulting in the depletion of zinc.
  • (4) I’d expect further activity later in the year to centre on fresh, own label and even staples,” he said.
  • (5) We suggest that emergency staple transection is an effective salvage treatment for this high-risk group.
  • (6) Modern stapling began with Hültl in 1908 and Petz in 1924.
  • (7) The polyvalent and adaptable material which we have developed (sliding splint-staple) and which we also use in thoracic traumatology (thoracic flaps), has allowed us to perform audacious corrections for deformities or wide resections for tumours since 1980.
  • (8) There was a higher incidence of inflammation, discomfort on removal and spreading of the healing scar associated with staples.
  • (9) A technique for facilitating stapled anastomosis in end to end esophagojejunostomy is described.
  • (10) The trocar mounted on the main stem of the circular stapler allows the stem of the main device to be brought out through the distal staple line.
  • (11) The extraperitoneal site of the anastomosis after rectal anterior resection with stapled anastomosis and surgery for cancer showed a statistically significant predisposition to anastomotic dehiscence.
  • (12) Where the standard staple remover is not immediately available, an artery forceps, correctly applied, is just as quick.
  • (13) Postoperatively, the anastomosis performed by a stapling instrument that was larger and more elastic than the one sutured by hand.
  • (14) In 73 patients anastomosis was performed by double stapling; in 37 cases the EEA stapler was used.
  • (15) We report our 7-yr experience with staple transection of the esophagus in this patient group.
  • (16) We recommend the use of the stapling device in excision of Zenker's diverticulum.
  • (17) Patients were randomized to have their skin closed with either continuous subcuticular non-absorbable polypropylene 'prolene' suture (33 patients) or metal skin staples (Autosuture 'Premium' or Davis and Geck 'Oppose'; 33 patients).
  • (18) Urinary leakage in 3 patients with a right colonic reservoir (2 with an intussuscepted ileal nipple valve and 1 with a plicated ileal segment as a continence mechanism) was managed with tapered narrowing of the nipple valve and the ileocecal valve, respectively, using stapling techniques.
  • (19) The warming is expected to continue without undue problems for 30 years but beyond 2050 the effects could be dramatic with staple crops hit.
  • (20) Macroscopic examination showed no major inflammatory adhesions around the staples.