(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.
Scalpel
Definition:
(n.) A small knife with a thin, keen blade, -- used by surgeons, and in dissecting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clute and Harrison took a scalpel to the flaws of the science fiction we loved, and we loved them for it.
(2) Significant differences between the LR2 and the LR6 were observed in the skin at 2 weeks (P less than .05) at all power settings used, indicating superiority of the smaller scalpel for use in skin incisions.
(3) The authors describe the use of a new contact argon laser scalpel designed specifically for hand-controlled cutting and hemostasis.
(4) The surgeon uses the scalpel rather than the prescription pad, but this fact is deceptive.
(5) After removing the bulk of tissue with the Shaw scalpel, the carbon dioxide laser and dermabrader are used to refine nasal contours.
(6) It was established that the plasma scalpel can be used effectively in hermetic closure of defects in the pulmonary tissue and cleansing of the pleural cavity and operative wound; for arresting diffuse bleeding from the walls of the pleural cavity, the plasma scalpel may be used only in combination with other methods of hemostasis.
(7) The results of the study bear evidence that the use of the thermo-acoustic contact solid-body laser scalpel makes it possible to increase the rate of cutting with minimal injury to the peripheral areas of the hepatic tissue, significantly increases the reliability of hemostasis, produces fine homogeneous coagulation for the whole length, and facilitates a favourable course of the reparative processes.
(8) An easy, rapid, and inexpensive technique for excision of syringomas from eyelids is outlined, using a fine needle as a skin hook and a #11 scalpel blade and leaving superficial wounds for secondary closure.
(9) The results of using the laser scalpel in surgery for echinococcosis of the liver in 68 patients are discussed.
(10) Wound contraction did occur but was less than is historically quoted for scalpel wounds.
(11) Cutaneous scalpel incisions were placed over the dorsum of three minipigs and were then closed by either the laser, sutures, or staples.
(12) Laser scalpel is also useful to extirpate the hemorrhagic tumor with hard consistency.
(13) The results were as follows: (1) The skin autograft takes were excellent following the plasma scalpel excisions, and they healed on essentially the same time scale as similar autografts following steel scalpel excisions, producing scars of similar sizes.
(14) A single digital angiosarcoma was excised by a carbon dioxide laser with small portions of this tumor excised by the scalpel and the high-frequency electrosurgical knife.
(15) An analysis of the article "Clinico-morphological estimation of regenerative processes of the stomach wound made by laser scalpel" by prof. A. I. Nechaĭ et al.
(16) Then she grabbed my hand, held it up for everyone to see, and paraded me around the office to show everyone my hilarious bleeding finger, which was now turning blue, and saying, "Typical student, can't even use a scalpel!"
(17) The incision edges from these two lasers were histologically smooth and comparable to a scalpel incision.
(18) We used a plasma scalpel to excise experimental full-thickness burns in 12 pigs, followed by immediate skin autografting.
(19) It was found that tumor resection using the laser scalpel and laser irradiation of the field after tumor resection were effective in preventing recurrence.
(20) The effectiveness of removing endothelium by rubbing it against filter paper or scraping it with a scalpel was demonstrated by scanning electron microscopy and en face examination after silver staining.