What's the difference between lacerate and runcinate?
Lacerate
Definition:
(v. t.) To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.
(p. a.) Alt. of Lacerated
Example Sentences:
(1) The affected bowel was replaced through the laceration, and the vaginal defects were sutured with the mares standing, utilizing epidural anesthesia.
(2) The tetracaine component of TAC is superfluous for obtaining topical anesthesia of minor dermal lacerations of the face in children.
(3) A compilation of injuires sustained in an amateur ice hockey program over a tw0-year period revealed that the majority of those injuires were facial lacerations.
(4) After resuscitation a laparotomy disclosed an anterior paramedian laceration of the uterus.
(5) It is pointed to the stiching up of skin over the prominent parts of bones after dividing the newborns sub partu to avoid a laceration of the mother womb and vagina.
(6) The incidence of tibial fractures, ankle injuries and lacerations also declined.
(7) Mares may suffer from a variety of genital injuries including vulval separations, vaginal lacerations and, less commonly, vaginal rupture.
(8) One other patient who had a satisfactory response underwent surgery for a pancreatic laceration.
(9) Two cases of uterine injury complicating midtrimester abortion induced by hypertonic saline are described, one with an extensive laceration of the cervix and the other with a rupture of the lower uterine segment extending into the vault of the vagina.
(10) The authors present a rare case of closed abdominal trauma in a five year old girl resulting from a washtub fall on her causing three lacerations in the middle third of the esophagus, identified 48 hours after the trauma.
(11) The use of intravenous lignocaine is thus recommended for children at risk, such as those needing an urgent operation because of lacerated eye injury under rapid sequence induction of anaesthesia.
(12) Placental laceration as a result of blunt maternal trauma has rarely been reported.
(13) We produce lung lacerations in 18 dogs ventilated with air containing charcoal powder.
(14) A case report of traumatic hemobilia following suture of superficial laceration of the liver is presented.
(15) The incidence of instrument-assisted deliveries (BC = 7, DT = 6), episiotomies (BC = 27, DT = 20), lacerations (BC = 17, DT = 5), and hemorrhoids (BC = 14, DT = 4) was similar between groups.
(16) The stitcher surgical treatment of the lacerations associated with gastrostomy and lengthy parenteral nutrition did not prevent the recurrence of the esophagus-pleural fistula, and an esophagectomy plus cervical esophagostomy was required.
(17) But the character – compounded of piercing sanity and existential despair, infinite hesitation and impulsive action, self-laceration and observant irony – is so multi-faceted, it is bound to coincide at some point with an actor’s particular gifts.
(18) The case of a patient with an extensive vertical laceration of the right cheek involving Stensen's duct is reported.
(19) Complications that were managed conservatively included splenic puncture, false aneurysm, laceration of the renal artery, arteriovenous fistula, hemorrhage requiring transfusion, pneumothorax-empyema, urinoma, septic shock and the hemolysis-hyponatremia-renal shutdown syndrome.
(20) Common signs and symptoms include forehead laceration and deformity, and fracture of the frontal sinus.
Runcinate
Definition:
(a.) Pinnately cut with the lobes pointing downwards, as the leaf of the dandelion.