What's the difference between horsehair and seton?
Horsehair
Definition:
(n.) A hair of a horse, especially one from the mane or tail; the hairs of the mane or tail taken collectively; a fabric or tuft made of such hairs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Laidlaw gently pawed her into position, confirming without doubt the date of the lunch, challenging the strength of her memory until she insisted she was absolutely certain and then, like Hannibal Lecter in a horsehair wig, softly and courteously, he cut out her heart: the incident with Kemp had happened six weeks after the lunch.
(2) But then I have to remind myself that the chair I'm sitting on – which I inherited from my aunt – is the one I've upholstered, with horsehair, and covered in a fabric of my choosing.
(3) ", we cannot but recall Kafka himself, trapped within the wall of orchestral sound, and unable to suspend disbelief in the sound of catgut scraped against horsehair.
(4) I wanted to bring them back to life, but in the traditional way: no foam or staple guns, it had to be horsehair, tacks and webbing.
(5) A plastic re-imagined version of a Roman horsehair body scraper, it means you don't have to use a towel, which therefore saves 237‑310 kWh per year in electricity by minimising washing.
(6) The dust from the cotton-horsehair mattresses had a significantly higher allergenic activity than from those of polyester-foam.
(7) The beaded fringing of the corset burrowed into the horsehair to look like lice, the effect beautiful and disturbing.
Seton
Definition:
(n.) A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen or the like, introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to form an issue; also, the issue so formed.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, the prevalence of postoperative complications was higher with the seton procedure (P < .001).
(2) More liberal use of the seton in the treatment of horseshoe abscesses and fistulas is advocated.
(3) The seton, with supplemental agents, maintained the intraocular pressure (IOP) within a therapeutic range for 6 months, until the time of death from cardiac complications.
(4) Primary healing, after removal of the seton, occurred in 25 of the 32 patients (78 per cent).
(5) Twenty-one patients with high transsphincteric fistulas treated by the seton technique were re-examined after two to 14 years.
(6) One patient developed a leak from the pouch necessitating loop ileostomy (J) and one patient had a low pouch vaginal fistula successfully treated by a seton (W).
(7) Hobbs is the dean of the Seton Hall Law School in Newark, New Jersey.
(8) This result is inferior to those quoted in the literature with the use of other types of setons, and especially to the results of Dr. Antonio Mendez who used a similar implant.
(9) The surgical management of complex fistula-in-ano can be difficult, and often requires a seton suture or a colostomy.
(10) For this reason such high fistulae should be progressively laid open in staged procedures, after encircling the sphincters for some weeks with a seton.
(11) We use a common office implement, the rubber band ligator, to manage the seton in an outpatient setting.
(12) We compared the effect of seton (White pump shunt) surgery (16 eyes) with that of trabeculectomy and 5-fluorouracil (31 eyes) in treating 38 Asian patients with medically uncontrollable neovascular glaucoma.
(13) Seton fistulotomy with counter drainage has become the authors' operative procedure of choice for horseshoe abscess fistula.
(14) Over an 8-year period five patients with suprasphincteric fistula and two with extraspincteric fistula a primary transsphincteric track were treated with fistulotomy, using delayed seton technique.
(15) Minor incontinence developed in 13 patients (54 per cent) undergoing two-stage fistulotomy and seven patients (54 per cent) treated with a cutting seton.
(16) High fistulas should be treated with seton drainage to limit recurrent suppuration and preserve sphincter function.
(17) We find that the use of the seton after partial fistulotomy for complicated anal fistulas reduces the rate of incontinence caused by sphincteric transection and has a very low recurrence rate.
(18) This qualified success rate is far below rates reported for other setons.
(19) The functional results in transsphincteric and suprasphincteric fistulas, which are usually considered at higher risk for postoperative incontinence, were better in the anal manometry group, due to greater use of the seton.
(20) The Molteno long tube seton was used in 12 eyes with glaucoma.