What's the difference between incision and tenotomy?
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.
Tenotomy
Definition:
(n.) The division of a tendon, or the act of dividing a tendon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Percutaneous tenotomy performed only in patients recurring after temporary cure, drops the rate of recurrences to 13%.
(2) Ulcers due to neurectomy with excision of the sciatic nerve are more severe than those due to tenotomy and can be inhibited by a single dose of ACTH.2.
(3) Responses of primary and secondary endings of muscle spindles were studied after tenotomy and hypertrophy in the cat soleus muscles.
(4) Surgery was recommended only after an Achilles tenotomy failed to bring the foot into dorsiflexion after approximately four months of age.
(5) Tenotomy is known to retard the regression of polyneuronal motor innervation in skeletal muscle from neonatal rats.
(6) The soleus hypertrophy was induced by unilateral tenotomy of the gastrocnemius and the plantaris muscles.
(7) Central core lesions were not prevented in muscles denervated 28 h after tenotomy, indicating that tenotomy effects responsible for central lesions are completed by this time.
(8) Tenotomy did not increase the total taurine content of the EDL.
(9) The role of nerve impulses and neurogenic factors in the decrease in muscle mass following tenotomy was investigated in 30 adult (15 males, 15 females) guinea pigs.
(10) The animals were serially sacrificed, and new tendon tissues generated at the tenotomy site were examined.
(11) In all the techniques but one, the marginal tenotomy, a high percentage of correction and a good coefficient of correlation between initial incomitance and obtained correction were found.
(12) The number of intrafusal fibres and mechanoreceptors did not change after either tenotomy or immobilization.
(13) Within the soleus and plantaris muscles, the type-I fiber atrophy was equal to the type-II fiber atrophy except for the white region of the plantaris following tenotomy, where the wasting of the type-I fiber was greater than that of type II.
(14) At the follow-up examination a median of 9 (2-11) years after the operation, a reduction in the hallux valgus angle from 32 degrees to 26 degrees and in the intermetatarsal angle from 13 degrees to 10 degrees was found; but on analyzing the single parts of the operation, we found that the result was only significant in those patients that had had the original procedures done, i.e., tenotomy and reattachment of the conjoined tendon, lateral capsulotomy, and lateral sesamoidectomy.
(15) Thirteen percent (five of 37) of all Hoke percutaneous triple hemisection Achilles tendon lengthenings performed at a teaching hospital in a 4-year period were complicated by inadvertent Achilles tenotomy.
(16) No change in the twitch time or tetanus-twitch ratio was seen following tenotomy in these muscles despite marked atrophy of the muscle.
(17) Finally, tenotomy and posterior rhizotomy leave the myotonic activity in the "deafferentated" muscles unchanged.
(18) Tenotomies and tendon transfers offer significant benefit in carefully chosen patients.
(19) The results of this experiment illustrate that central core lesions will develop in all three fiber types (types 1, 2A, and 2C) of the soleus following tenotomy.
(20) Tenotomie of the sternocleidomastoid muscle seems to be an operation without complications.