What's the difference between fulgurate and lightning?
Fulgurate
Definition:
(v. i.) To flash as lightning.
Example Sentences:
(1) We studied the influence of energy level on the one hand and of the physical properties of the catheter (Ct) on the other hand on the cardiac effects of right endoventricular fulguration in the dog.
(2) Interruption of the His bundle was performed by means of fulguration.
(3) Operative errors such as round ligament fulguration were also more common than expected.
(4) A total of 29 shocks were delivered with an Odam fulgurator, using a distal electrode connected to the positive pole of a selected catheter.
(5) The advantages of this method compared with electrical fulguration are better control of delivered energy and reduction of complications (catheter perforation, thromboembolism).
(6) This report is a review of 49 patients who, after careful selection, were considered ideal candidates for curative fulguration in the period 1959-1982.
(7) One nurse endoscopist, under supervision by a physician mentor, has carried out more than 6,000 sigmoidoscopies in a recent 1-year period and has fulgurated one or more diminutive polyps in almost 500 patients.
(8) One hundred fifty patients were included in a double-blind study to evaluate whether they were more comfortable being sterilized by fulguration or by Falope-Ring banding.
(9) The use of the resectoscope has several advantages in treating the patient with inoperable obstructive carcinoma of the rectum, particularly when compared with fulguration.
(10) To evaluate the effect of fulguration of endometriotic implants in patients with mild endometriosis, we divided 123 patients into two groups: (A) patients whose endometriotic implants were coagulated, and (B) patients whose implants were left intact.
(11) The regenerative response to the fulgurative ulcer within a given species was similar to the early response previously observed by others following administration of known bladder carcinogens.
(12) Two cases are reported of functionally significant bladder neck obstruction following urethral valve fulguration which resulted in inability to void.
(13) Circumcision, electric fulguration and excision of urethral tumor were performed.
(14) To show our first experiments with the treatment of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome through endocavitary fulguration of accessory pathway.
(15) We performed transurethral fulguration of the diverticular mucosa and incision of the diverticular neck in combination with transurethral prostatectomy or bladder neck resection to treat all aspects of diverticula in 9 patients.
(16) Endocardial fulguration per se induced severe but transient (less than 5 minutes) hemodynamic changes and was sometimes complicated by myocardial ischemia and conduction disorders.
(17) Three cases of auricular fulguration are described and used as a basis for a review of physical characteristics and histopathologic consequences of lightning strikes.
(18) This allowed definitive treatment in a single session by local excision and fulguration in 48 patients.
(19) In group A, 42 of 69 (60.8%) patients achieved a pregnancy within eight cycles following laparoscopic fulguration, in comparison with 10 of 54 (18.5%) patients from group B.
(20) A few seconds after fulguration, each VT was terminated and additional radiofrequency currents were given near these sites.
Lightning
Definition:
(n.) A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder.
(n.) The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers.
(vb. n.) Lightening.
Example Sentences:
(1) The territory’s chief executive Leung Chun-ying, has become a lightning rod for the protesters’ anger .
(2) Last week Isis bulldozed the ancient city of Nimrud , also near Mosul, which the militant group conquered in a lightning advance last summer.
(3) We went on holiday to Cyprus and the plane got hit by lightning.
(4) The subjective signs of the syndrome are floating 'moths', photopsias presenting as a 'lateral lightning', sudden appearance of a central macula (central positive scotoma).
(5) We are told the thunder and lightning made it impossible for the engineers to position the control room barge, thus delaying the operation.
(6) Financial Services Authority chief executive Hector Sants described bonuses as the "lightning rod" of the public's lack of trust in bankers.
(7) The literature relating to the neurology of lightning strike is briefly reviewed.
(8) One instance occurred while the victim was using the telephone; the other victim received a direct lightning strike to the head.
(9) These teams open up with five goals, three of which came at lightning speed.
(10) There are various reasons some musicians don't like Spotify, although the company is something of a lightning rod for criticism of all streaming services.
(11) Bruce, who believes Sessègnon could help to plug the gap left by striker Darren Bent, said: "Stéphane can play on the left, on the right, through the middle – he's lightning quick and he's a match-winner.
(12) Although uncommon, symptoms of lightning-like electric sensations spreading into both arms, down the dorsal spine, and into both legs on neck flexion following head and neck irradiation, causes great concern in both the patient and the physician.
(13) A variety of electrocardiographic changes have been documented previously in association with lightning injury; however, the changes in this patient have not previously been reported.
(14) He again complained of severe lightning pain after the successful spinal anesthesia with the same anesthetic solution.
(15) Jamie Vardy started to score the goals that his lightning speed of foot and monstrous effort promised he might.
(16) Cameron can't stab Nick in the back over AV and keep using him as an all-purpose lightning conductor."
(17) The importance of electrophysiological and CT scan examination in the diagnosis and etiology of abnormalities caused in the eye by lightning is emphasized.
(18) As well as many Assyrians, thousands of Iraqi Chaldeans have also fled to Lebanon since Isis took control of Mosul in a lightning offensive last summer.
(19) A case is described in which the patient had been struck by lightning, with involvement of one eye and the visual pathways.
(20) Emergency physicians and staff are usually the first to evaluate and manage victims of lightning strikes.