What's the difference between incising and scribing?

Incising


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incise

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Midsagittal or parasagittal pontomedullary brainstem incisions were performed in 4 cats.
  • (2) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
  • (3) In a double-blind trial, 50 patients with subcostal incisions performed for cholecystectomy or splenectomy, received 10 ml of either 0.5% bupivacaine plain or physiological saline twice daily by wound perfusion through an indwelling drainage tube for 3 days after operation.
  • (4) Measurements were made of the width of the marginal gap for three sites at each of four stages: (1) after the shoulder firing, (2) after the body-incisal firing, (3) after the glaze firing, and (4) after a correction firing.
  • (5) The reduction in respiratory function in those subjects without an abdominal incision demonstrated that other factors, particularly the influence of a general anaesthesia, need to be taken into account.
  • (6) It is unnecessary to make any special more complicated incision designed to avoid lymphatics.
  • (7) The advantages of pars plana approach are the small incision and minimal ocular manipulation during surgery.
  • (8) The operative approach is through an incision above the medial canthus.
  • (9) The authors recall the advantages of low transcartilage incision in rhinoplasty and, by means of several technical details, illustrate the value of this approach in submucosal dissection.
  • (10) By making the incision inside the hairline, there is no increase in the height of the pubic hair.
  • (11) If transportation is unduly delayed, immediate linear incision and suction may be of value.
  • (12) Following orthodontic treatment the canine's incisal edge occlusion demonstrates the tip and torque present in the appliance that was used.
  • (13) Middle-ear exploration in six patients revealed abundant granulation tissue; multiple granulomas and acid-fast bacilli were demonstrated on a section of tissue from one patient with a nonhealing mastoidectomy incision.
  • (14) At surgery, upon incision of the paravertebral muscle fascia, viscous pale fluid was encountered emanating from a foramen in the thoracic lamina.
  • (15) The sample was divided into three groups based on the degree of pretreatment overbite: openbite subsample--no incisal overlap; overlap subsample--incisal overlap and no incisal contact; contact subsample--incisal overlap with incisal contact.
  • (16) The usual approach to the inferior orbit has been through a subciliary skin incision and dissection of a skin flap to the orbital rim.
  • (17) Bojan Krkic had been snuffed out in his central role for Stoke and Hughes’s tweaks would have paid off if Diouf’s finishing had been more incisive.
  • (18) Compared with a matched group without ultrasonic visualization, the eventual site for uterine incision and morbidity to the mother and fetus were not significantly different.
  • (19) The incision was then extended toward the opening of the left coronary artery.
  • (20) Not intimately associated with a nonvital tooth or found to have any communication with the incisive canal.

Scribing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scribe

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The scribes wrote his words on their tablets of metal and light, to be saved for the ages.
  • (2) But the man whose calligraphy we ponder - a jobbing scribe, probably - was not the author.
  • (3) The resulting outline scribed from the orifices tended to be centered mesiodistally on the crown of each group and did not extend to the marginal ridges.
  • (4) A case of life threatening lead poisoning was diagnosed clinically in a Jewish scribe and verified by appropriate laboratory studies.
  • (5) He worked mainly as a scribe and copyist, drafting correspondence, copying letters written by others and researching a variety of issues.
  • (6) When I was translating his novel Broken Glass – a novel with no full stops, no sentences, in which a variety of characters relate their stories to a scribe in a downtown bar – I kept thinking of the African voices I heard around me in London.
  • (7) It's back to the battle between scribes and movable type.
  • (8) Following any assessment, results are literally shouted across the fence to a scribe who copies them on to a duplicate record sheet in conditions of safety.
  • (9) I would expect that an organisation so largely composed of journalists might more greatly value the contributions of fellow scribes.
  • (10) The special ink used by the scribe was found to contain lead in appreciable amounts.
  • (11) Eleven more asymptomatic subjects, both scribes and manufacturers of the ink, were studied and five were found to have subclinical lead overload.
  • (12) For scribes copied and recopied books in this city that loved leaning, creating a legacy of works transcribed in the 18th and 19th centuries as well as earlier.
  • (13) The scribes came to Him and they asked him for His words.
  • (14) Robert Newton Oldham • "Ignore the groans of vested interests" blusters David Cameron's ex-scribe Ian Birrell.
  • (15) So perhaps this is as good a moment as any to take my leave, and it doesn't make me feel any younger to find myself described in one gossip column as a "scribe" who is laying down his "quill".
  • (16) Takrit scribes in Cairo – through which the miles-long camel caravan of the king of the vast Mali Empire passed – said his wealth and generosity was unlike any they had seen.
  • (17) The length coincides approximately with the length of the 'writing tablet' (jotter) mentioned in 'Epidemics' VI 8.7 and with the ancient Greek standard unit of measure applied for the payment of scribes, namely 100 epic verses.
  • (18) Molecular sieve chromatography and sucrose density gradient ultracentrifugation demonstrated that the chemotactic factor was a relatively low molecular weight product (15,000-30,000) and as such different from previously scribed C' system-derived chemotactic factors.
  • (19) It’s not hard to see what inspired Viking scribes: the island has pockets filled with silences that feel intensely charged.
  • (20) The historian John Man puts the Gutenberg revolution like this : "Suddenly, in a historical eye-blink, scribes were redundant.

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