What's the difference between handle and tenaculum?
Handle
Definition:
(v. t.) To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.
(v. t.) To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to manage skillfully.
(v. t.) To accustom to the hand; to work upon, or take care of, with the hands.
(v. t.) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell; as, a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock.
(v. t.) To deal with; to make a business of.
(v. t.) To treat; to use, well or ill.
(v. t.) To manage; to control; to practice skill upon.
(v. t.) To use or manage in writing or speaking; to treat, as a theme, an argument, or an objection.
(v. i.) To use the hands.
(n.) That part of vessels, instruments, etc., which is held in the hand when used or moved, as the haft of a sword, the knob of a door, the bail of a kettle, etc.
(n.) That of which use is made; the instrument for effecting a purpose; a tool.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
(2) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
(3) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
(4) Control of cell calcium handling and transport may be abnormal in hypertension.
(5) Equal numbers of handled and unhandled puparia were planted out at different densities (1, 2, 4 or 8 per linear metre) in fifty-one natural puparial sites in four major vegetation types.
(6) Arrogant, narcissistic, egotistical, brilliant – all of that I can handle in Paul,” Levinson writes.
(7) Isolated renal tubules and renal clearance techniques were used to characterize the renal handling of 2-deoxy-D-galactose (2-d-Gal) by the winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus).
(8) In this study, we examined renal tubular cell handling of digoxin and ouabain using LLC-PK1 cells, a model of proximal renal tubular cells.
(9) Just before Christmas the independent Kerslake report severely criticised Birmingham city council for its dysfunctional politics and, in particular, its handling of the so-called Trojan Horse affair, in which school governors were said to have set out to bring about an Islamic agenda into the curriculum contents and the day-to-day running of some schools.
(10) The effects of insulin on the renal handling of sodium, potassium, calcium, and phosphate were studied in man while maintaining the blood glucose concentration at the fasting level by negative feedback servocontrol of a variable glucose infusion.
(11) The Nd-Yag-Laser seems to be a useful device in transsphenoidal surgery due to its potent coagulation effect and comfortable handling.
(12) Techniques are described for the special handling of these cells as well as suitable assay procedures.
(13) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
(14) Possible reasons for the previous discrepancies between direct and isotopic methods are discussed, as are the effects of protein binding, sample handling, and storage conditions on oxalate values in plasma.
(15) In addition to working with hist colleagues on general review and health-policy matters, he also handled issues related to the special needs of children and helped to get third-party benefit packages altered to better suit the treatment needs of children.
(16) Furthermore, this system can be satisfactory handled by technical personnel after short periods of training.
(17) The major difficulty encountered with the current technique is the danger of neurologic injury during the passage and handling of conventional wires, especially in extensive procedures.
(18) Both techniques are used by industry and regulatory agencies to monitor levels of fungal contamination at various stages of food handling, storing, processing and marketing.
(19) The particular advantage of the method described here is the ease with which the supernatants can be collected and transferred to counting vials with minimal handling of radioactive samples.
(20) The greatest care should be exercised by industry in handling tremolite or materials contaminated with it.
Tenaculum
Definition:
(n.) An instrument consisting of a fine, sharp hook attached to a handle, and used mainly for taking up arteries, and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) In one case a cervical lesion was observed due to a tenaculum laceration.
(2) Moderate cervical traction straightens the uterus and the routine use of a tenaculum theoretically makes insertion of an intrauterine device safer and the passage of an embryo transfer catheter less traumatic.
(3) The only instruments needed are a single-toothed tenaculum to straighten the uterine axis and a straight Randall's forceps.
(4) Care in examining the patient, judicious timing of insertion, the use of a tenaculum, traction to straighten flexion deformities of the uterus, sounding the uterus, and gentleness during the introduction and ejection of the device into the uterus should greatly reduce the incidence of uterine perforation.
(5) No anesthesia, analgesia or tenaculum was required.
(6) The comments on another study of laparoscopic sterilization technique combined with therapeutic abortions in which the use of a vacuum cannula or a dilator taped in place with a tenaculum on the cervix to aid in uterine positioning is recommended.
(7) The IUDs were removed without analgesia or anesthesia, by grasping the anterior lip of the cervix with a uterine tenaculum, and inserting forceps without cervical dilatation.
(8) After surgical preparation with Betadine solution, a combination tenaculum-sound is placed in the cervical canal.
(9) The tenaculum in the cervix is used to position the uterus and tubes.
(10) Use of a tenaculum at insertion may also be a risk factor for laceration, but this finding needs to be confirmed by future studies.
(11) In the first phase of the investigation, designed to determine the efficacy of the gel, 40 women received it before one or more of five procedures (cervical biopsy, intrauterine device insertion, endocervical curettage, paracervical block, and tenaculum placement).
(12) The tenaculum offers certain advantages over other cervical sealing devices and was able to be applied to 14 of 15 patients, with enhancement of the hysteroscopic findings.
(13) A single-tooth tenaculum and a tubal insufflation cannula control the uterus during the subsequent sterilization procedure.
(14) The uterus is manipulated by a tenaculum on the cervix.
(15) Doctors and counselors rated the pain during each of 8 specific stages of the abortion (examination, speculum insertion, tenaculum placement, administration of paracervical local anesthesia, uterine sounding, cervical dilatation, vacuum aspiration, and sharp curettage) as compared with the average pain they had observed.
(16) A new tenaculum was developed to minimize reflux yet be easily applied to the cervix.
(17) It has been necessary to train midwives and nurses to perform insertions as well as identify contraindications, both temporary and absolute, use of the tenaculum forceps, the uterine sound, and remove the IUD.
(18) The traction force was measured with a spring-balance attached to the tenaculum.
(19) The measurements were made by connecting to the cervix a uterine insufflation cannula with a ruler attached to it and measuring the distance from the hymen to the ectocervix while varying amounts of downward traction were applied to a tenaculum with a spring scale.
(20) This appears to be because of the design of the Labotect tubal cannulation set that uses a special speculum and tenaculum to straighten the uterus before insertion of the guide cannula and a less traumatic ball-tipped guide catheter.