What's the difference between liaison and ligation?

Liaison


Definition:

  • (n.) A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Methods to minimize bias in the design and implementation of consultation-liaison research are suggested.
  • (2) Continuity of care programs, such as that developed by the Pain Service of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York), with good communication and liaison work between hospital and community, add a much needed dimension to the pain management of these patients in the home.
  • (3) Since 1987 consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatrists in Europe have decided to develop a closer collaboration to stimulate the development of the C-L field.
  • (4) A system for detecting such cases was established through liaison with other hospital peer review committees or any physician or nurse who was privy to specific information and willing to submit it in writing.
  • (5) Today, in answer to questions from MPs on the Commons liaison committee, David Cameron said he would back the bank.
  • (6) To offer these individuals the optimum result, it is mandatory to have close liaison with an orthodontic colleague.
  • (7) A spokeswoman for Scotland Yard said: "We are in liaison with the US authorities.
  • (8) Ahmed Chinoy, head of the Citizens Police Liaison Committee, asked.
  • (9) Specialist learning disability liaison nurse Jainab Desai is making meticulous checks of the complex arrangements to receive a tricky patient with learning disabilities, with staff of the day surgery unit at Royal Bolton hospital.
  • (10) Subsequent to the questionnaire the PCCU liaison pharmacist implemented a visual display of monthly drug costs, an education program that included the presentation of questionnaire results, and drug information lectures discussing controversial therapeutic issues.
  • (11) This article was amended on 5 January 2016 to clarify that the US Fish and Wildlife Service is leading the crisis management reaction to the occupation in liaison with the FBI.
  • (12) The results indicate that a POC may serve a specific and definable segment of patients, whose characteristics depart from the clinical populations in consultation-liaison psychiatry and medical-psychiatric units.
  • (13) Perinatal care in rural areas could be improved by: 1) transforming underequipped rural maternity units into centers where pregnancies can be properly monitored; 2) avoiding the transportation of a premature baby by moving the mother prior to delivery to a properly equipped center; and 3) providing for effective liaison between rural maternity services and fully equipped maternal health centers.
  • (14) Prior literature suggested that psychiatric liaison on medical wards would produce a more positive attitude towards psychiatry, more psychosocial chart documentation, and a higher consultation request rate.
  • (15) A retrospective review of the records of 755 patients seen by a psychiatric consultation-liaison service in a general hospital was performed.
  • (16) The authors present the results of a one-year study showing equivalent mastery of basic psychiatric knowledge and skills and equally favorable student reactions after psychiatry clerkships on a consultation-liaison service and on other more traditional psychiatry services.
  • (17) The walk that will always stay in my mind is one that I enjoyed with my climbing partner Paul Ramsden and our liaison officer, Dawa, after we had made the first ascent of beautiful Manamcho (6,264m) in the Nyainqentanglha East range of eastern Tibet.
  • (18) The individual experiences of the authors as fellows in consultation-liaison psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychobiology, and sleep disorders medicine are described.
  • (19) Celebrity endorsement is the super- weapon of modern humanitarianism – three-quarters of Britain's 30 largest charities (excluding housing and care trusts) have full-time celebrity liaison managers to ease the celebrities on and off aeroplanes in and out of hell.
  • (20) The number of hospital orders made at the court increased fourfold after the liaison scheme began.

Ligation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of binding, or the state of being bound.
  • (n.) That which binds; bond; connection.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
  • (2) Myocardial ischaemia was induced in perfused rabbit hearts by ligating the left main coronary artery.
  • (3) Our results show that stenosis of about one-third of the original external diameter of the artery and vein of the pedicle in our model did not have any significant influence on the survival of the flap and ligation of the femoral artery distal to the branch to the flap did not produce any statistical difference in the viability of the flap.
  • (4) These findings suggest that testicular vein ligation for varicoceles does not improve fertility.
  • (5) This proved that all four fistulas were acquired and that they were probably caused by the catgut ligatures used for ampullary ligation.
  • (6) Donor organs were anastomosed parallel to the recipient's heart and right lung, and the superior vena cava inflow was directed into the transplanted heart-left lung block after ligation of the recipient's superior vena cava proximal to the caval anastomosis.
  • (7) Portal vein ligation resulted in testicular atrophy and low serum testosterone concentrations.
  • (8) The intrarenal administration of acetylcholine produced a significant and comparable increase in RPF in all animals, including those with chronic ligation of CBS, but the rise in UNaV in the latter was significantly less than that in the other groups of dogs.
  • (9) Such conformations would account for the observed resistance of the double-hairpin structure to ligation, since the 3'OH and 5'P would no longer be collinear.
  • (10) Ligation of the left renal vein on the medial side of the adrenolumbar tributary maintained a patent left renal vein in all cases with 60% of left kidney biopsies showing no histological evidence of changes to glomeruli or tubules, and the remainder showing early acute tubular necrosis.
  • (11) Splenectomy and splenic artery ligation were performed.
  • (12) Continuous in utero tracheal ligation and drainage (over a period of 21-28 days) both result in malformations of the developing fetal lamb lung.
  • (13) Nitrogen mustard (N2M) treatment of rabbits induced neutropenia, and, in ligated ileal loops, it inhibited fluid secretion induced by salmonella or by cholera toxin (CT).
  • (14) The fistula was ligated by an access through the right atrium with good nearest and long-term results.
  • (15) A series of alkylazulene-1-sodium sulfonate derivatives which has an isopropyl group at 6-position were synthesized, and their anti-ulcer activities were examined in Shay pylorus-ligated rats.
  • (16) Venour ligation produced sixfold increases in lymph flow.
  • (17) In the second experiment, 15- and 30-day-old rats underwent unilateral carotid ligation followed by kindling in the ipsilateral amygdala.
  • (18) Although few major complications were noted in the IMAX ligation group, frequent minor complications were noted on prolonged follow-up.
  • (19) The new operative technique was used for anastomosis of previously ligated fallopian tubes in 14 cases and for unilateral midsegmental inflammatory tubal obstruction (previously left salpingectomy due to an ectopic pregnancy) in 1 case.
  • (20) Microsurgical vasovasostomy for the reversal of elective bilateral segmental vasectomy (vasectomy, vas ligation) was done in 57 patients (61 operations) between May 1977 and March 1984.

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