What's the difference between incision and roulette?

Incision


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of incising, or cutting into a substance.
  • (n.) That which is produced by incising; the separation of the parts of any substance made by a cutting or pointed instrument; a cut; a gash.
  • (n.) Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines.

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.

Roulette


Definition:

  • (n.) A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.
  • (n.) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots.
  • (n.) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
  • (n.) the curve traced by any point in the plane of a given curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over another fixed curve. See Cycloid, and Epycycloid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Read Rachel’s full story Facebook Twitter Pinterest Chris Owen: ‘I’ve been sober for six years now, and I don’t miss alcohol.’ Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian I spent my 20s playing Russian roulette with alcohol The NHS has been there time and time again for Chris Owen, who battled alcoholism throughout his 20s.
  • (2) Recent use of cocaine, the most common drug found at autopsy, was detected in 64% of Russian roulette fatalities and in 35% of the control group (P less than .05).
  • (3) The sound of chips landing on the tables chimes with house music filling the room and the roll of the ball along the roulette wheel.
  • (4) Severe restriction of the stakes on FOBTs or, better still, banishing roulette back to the casinos altogether would focus the minds of both CEOs and shareholders on getting their slice of the action from of the best betting medium ever devised.
  • (5) Until now the controversial electronic FOBTs - which account for half of betting shop profits - allowed players to lose £100 of their own money every 20 seconds on casino games such as roulette.
  • (6) Meanwhile in Britain, the game of Russian roulette played out by young drug users every night continues apace, with the risks continually heightened by the introduction of ever more dangerous drugs, such as PMA, which killed 23 people last year .
  • (7) He naively thought the roulette wheel in the City would keep turning and the house price bubble keep floating, forever.
  • (8) Labour accuses the government of playing Russian roulette with homes and businesses by cutting flood protection, but McIntosh said: "Be in no doubt, a Labour government would have cut flood defences.
  • (9) The waiting goes on to discover what, if anything, the Government proposes to do next about the addictive, high-stakes roulette and gaming machines which have created several thousand mini-casinos on our high streets.
  • (10) Unite has accused the company of playing "Russian roulette" with the future of Grangemouth, the biggest industrial site in Scotland, and is backing any efforts by the Scottish Government to find a new buyer for the oil refinery and petrochemical complex.
  • (11) The terminals allow bets of up to £100 every 20 seconds on casino games such as roulette, leading to the machines being dubbed the "crack cocaine of gambling".
  • (12) Because people buying advance tickets get seat reservations, for regular commuters it's like Russian roulette.
  • (13) If he is playing electoral roulette with the one-time bankable constituency of students, he is also hopeful of picking up voters "abandoned" by Labour in the north, where the Lib Dems are second to Labour in 52 constituencies.
  • (14) Britain’s hardworking taxpayers will pay the price for the economic chaos.” Where the parties stand on the economy Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, said: “Ed Miliband and Ed Balls are intent on playing Russian roulette with Britain’s economy … The fact is, Labour want a return to reckless and excessive borrowing.” The Labour leadership is aiming to wrong-foot Osborne, who hopes to portray Labour as fiscally irresponsible, by placing the elimination of the budget deficit at the centre of its manifesto.
  • (15) "Banks should be safe places for people's savings, not huge roulette wheels," Cable said.
  • (16) There were only four accidents, two of which were the results of 'Russian roulette'.
  • (17) Nicknamed ‘Casino Jimmy’ by the Danish press after skipping curfew to go play roulette while on international duty with the Under-21 team, Nielsen would go on to become a hardened gambling addict.
  • (18) William Hill , Ladbrokes and Coral, together with the smaller competitor Paddy Power, have promised from next month to remove all adverts for touch-screen roulette machines from their windows and to dedicate a fifth of the space to responsible gambling messages.
  • (19) A reply is offered to an article likening the use of condoms to Russian roulette in its vaunted protection against AIDS.
  • (20) In the caloric test especially the patients show canal paresis (CP) on the more impaired side, but none of them appeared to be nonresponsive to the test; lumbar air insufflation is often an effective treatment for this disease; pneumoencephalo-roulette tomography is very useful for diagnosing pathological changes in the posterior fossa.

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