What's the difference between instrument and separatory?
Instrument
Definition:
(n.) That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical instruments.
(n.) A contrivance or implement, by which musical sounds are produced; as, a musical instrument.
(n.) A writing, as the means of giving formal expression to some act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, as a deed, contract, writ, etc.
(n.) One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium, means, or agent.
(v. t.) To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument; as, a sonata instrumented for orchestra.
Example Sentences:
(1) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
(2) Breast temperatures have been measured by the automated instrumentation called the 'Chronobra' for 16 progesterone cycles in women at normal risk for breast cancer and for 15 cycles in women at high risk for breast cancer.
(3) After a review of the technical development and application of staplers from their introduction to the present day, the indications to the use of this instrument in all gastroenterological areas from the oesophagus to the rectum as well as in chest, gynaecological and urological surgery specified.
(4) Short-forms of Wechsler intelligence tests have abounded in the literature and have been recommended for use as screening instruments in clinical and research settings.
(5) Atrioventricular (AV) delay that results in maximum ventricular filling and physiological mechanisms that govern dependence of filling on timing of atrial systole were studied by combining computer experiments with experiments in the anesthetized dog instrumented to measure phasic mitral flow.
(6) The instrument is a definite aid to the surgeon, and does not penalize the time required for surgery.
(7) Furthermore, the AMDP-3 scale and its manual constitute a remarkable teaching instrument for psychopathology, not always enough appreciated.
(8) But it [Help to Buy] is the right policy instrument to deal with a specific problem."
(9) Clinical use of this instrument is no more difficult than conventional immersion ultrasonography.
(10) The performance of the instrument was evaluated by undertaking in vitro measurements of the reflectance spectra of blood.
(11) Several recommendations, based upon the results of this survey study, the existing literature relevant to the ethical responsibilities of investigators who conduct research with children, and our own experiences with these instruments and populations, are made to assist researchers in their attempts to use these inventories in an ethical manner.
(12) Utilizing standardized instruments, family and demographic predictors of general and problem-solving knowledge pertaining to diabetes were identified in 53 newly diagnosed children.
(13) A compact attachment for microscope-type instruments is described enabling to introduce, rapidly and qualitatively, minute biological speciments into melted embedding medium and ensuring the safety of optics.
(14) This paper considers the advantages and disadvantages of the instrument together with indications for its use and reviews 118 patients who had 130 oral lesions removed with the CO2 laser.
(15) The inflammatory response is active in the embryo midway through incubation and is probably instrumental in protection of the embryo.
(16) To examine the possibility of prolongation of the standing times of instrument disinfectants, in vitro tests under high albumin exposure and tests in clinical practice were done.
(17) This, too, is a functional technique although the method and instruments are totally different.
(18) One abutment was used to evaluate each of nine oral hygiene instrumentation methods used for specified lengths of time or instrument strokes.
(19) Out-patient treatment, instrumentation and postgraduated teaching is dealt with.
(20) There is considerable evidence to suggest that intra-alveolar plasminogen activation is instrumental in many aspects of inflammatory lung injury and subsequent tissue repair.
Separatory
Definition:
(a.) Separative.
(n.) An apparatus used in separating, as a separating funnel.
(n.) A surgical instrument for separating the pericranium from the cranium.
Example Sentences:
(1) The possibility of separating lipid materials on the basis of the number, type, and position of the unsaturated centers they contain, by virtue of the complexing of these unsaturated bonds with silver ions, provides a relatively recent but now very important addition to the range of separatory methods available to lipid chemists and biochemists.
(2) Samples were assayed in the absence and presence of excess GH using 2 separatory procedures.
(3) With this combined polyethylene glycol-second-antibody separatory method, the incubation time is shorter than the usual double-antibody separation procedure, but avoids the problem of high nonspecific precipitation, which occurs with polyethylene glycol alone.
(4) Neither sulfate columns nor separatory funnels are required, and no emulsions are formed.
(5) From these analyses, we conclude that precise quantitation of cholesterol "carriers" in bile awaits methods to accurately determine the intermicellar-intervesicular concentration of bile salts in any individual bile, as well as advances in nonperturbing separatory procedures, and methods to control the thermal and temporal history of native bile samples.
(6) A new technique in which polyethylene glycol is added to double-antibody assays of lutropin and follitropin eliminates the need for an incubation period during the separatory phase.
(7) Organochlorine compounds were extracted by using separatory funnels and 15% diethyl ether in hexane as extractant.
(8) Two experiments were conducted to determine efficacy of a discontinuous bovine serum albumin (BSA) gradient for isolating viable porcine spermatozoa more tolerant to 5-d liquid storage in Beltsville Thawing Solution (BTS) at 15 degrees C. The gradient, contained in a 500-ml separatory funnel, consisted of 4% BSA (60 ml) over 10% BSA (60 ml).
(9) The sample is first shaken with 0.1N H2SO4 solution; then and aliquot containing about 0.1 mg alkaloid is transferred to a separatory funnel, made basic with NaOH solution, and extracted with CHCL3.
(10) The methodology described permits the measurement of the specific radioactivity of diverse proteins resolvable by separatory techniques using cylindrical polyacrylamide gels.
(11) The residue is transferred to a separatory funnel with ethyl ether and 1N HCl.
(12) A partitioning cleanup method performed in test tubes with small solvent volumes, and using syringes instead of separatory funnels for phase separations, has been tested for potential as a general cleanup method for a variety of pesticidal compounds.
(13) We suggest a mechanism that might account for the resolution observed and also suggest that the resolution achieved by existing OFAGE-type systems may be the result of the superimposition of PHOGE and FIGE separatory mechanisms.
(14) The broad utility of this novel set of protein separatory reagents is illustrated on the complex mixture of proteins in a yeast lysate.
(15) We employed an Altex ultrasphere ODS column in the preparative steps and a Waters mu-Bondapak C18 column in the separatory and analytical procedures.
(16) This column has proven to be a direct replacement for the time consuming and labor intensive separatory funnel partition of the Luke procedure.
(17) Ciliates of T. thng type IV) were mixed with Ficoll and added as underlayers to separatory funnels containing growth medium.
(18) The column is reusable and convenient and results in a 35-45% savings in time over separatory funnel partition.
(19) Studies were conducted to determine the extent of rapidly evolving effects of glucocorticoids on the transcriptional activity of individual hepatocyte genes through comparisons of the relative rates of synthesis of the more than 3000 protein gene products that are resolved in giant two-dimensional separatory gels.
(20) Cell separatory techniques could mask, or select out, clinically important functional lesions.