What's the difference between measurement and perimetry?
Measurement
Definition:
(n.) The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.
(n.) The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five acres.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, volumes, and temperatures of expired gas were measured from the tracheal and esophageal tubes.
(3) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(4) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
(5) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(6) However, when first trimester specimens were analyzed, the direct-product measurements were significantly larger than the corresponding 3H2O assay results.
(7) Activity of Na,K-ATPase activity was measured as a functional marker for synaptosomal membranes.
(8) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
(9) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(10) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(11) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(12) Heart rate (HR), pulmonary ventilation (V), oxygen consumption (VO2), carbon dioxide production (VCO2), and respiratory quotient (RQ) were measured.
(13) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
(14) Measurement of the intraspinal monoamine level revealed a decrease in the intraspinal norepinephrine level in the treated animals.
(15) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(16) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(17) Although measurements are easily obtained with a tape measure, the validity of these measurements is not known.
(18) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
(19) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).
(20) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
Perimetry
Definition:
(n.) The art of using the perimeter; measurement of the field of vision.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients should be evaluated by perimetry using an appropriate strategy and contrast sensitivity testing, along with careful examination of the optic discs.
(2) Perimetry is a subjective psychophysical sensory examination.
(3) During automated perimetry with the Humphrey Visual Field Analyzer, field examinations are labeled unreliable whenever the reported rate of fixation loss is 20% or more.
(4) The black hole effect is probably of minor clinical importance except in exacting quantitative perimetry.
(5) The future development of perimetry will be characterized by a refinement of measured value statistics and the testing of perimetric procedures that test more complex physiological functions than sensitivity to differences (e.g., analysis of temporal transmission characteristics in flicker perimetry.
(6) The influence of a socially acceptable dose of alcohol (mean blood alcohol level approximately 90 minutes after ingestion 69.5 mg%; SE 6.20 mg%) on the central visual field as determined by automated static perimetry was investigated in 17 female subjects (17 eyes) trained in automated perimetry (mean age 22.5 years, SE 1.29 years).
(7) Kinetic perimetry was performed using colored test objects of constant luminance, equated to a white surround of 10 ft lamberts.
(8) The test is entitled 'Oculo-Kinetic Perimetry' because it is the subject's eye that moves and not the test stimulus.
(9) To study such possible factors, we carried out perimetry on subjects who had consumed alcohol and who had not.
(10) Automated perimetry allows accurate diagnostic information to be obtained in a reliable manner.
(11) Interindividual spread was greater than intraindividual spread; the spread augmented towards the periphery and in the superior quadrant of the visual field and was generally greater in automated perimetry than in manual Tübingen perimetry, especially in the region of the blind spot.
(12) Perimetry is, therefore, recommended to diagnose or rule out a neuropathy.
(13) Suppression was examined with binocular perimetry in patients with small angle strabismus.
(14) The advantages and the disadvantages of automated perimetry in respect to manual perimetry are examined.
(15) ), were examined by automated light-sense and temporal resolution perimetry.
(16) Computerized perimetry is related to standard manual visual field examination.
(17) It was established that the changes in static perimetry run a course parallel to the disturbances in the perception of the Haidinger phenomenon and poor performance at the Amsler tests.
(18) A quantitative measure of visual field loss associated with kinetic perimetry in chronic open-angle glaucoma (COAG) is discussed.
(19) Careful quantitative perimetry should be done to decide a suitable time for surgical treatment in BIH.
(20) These findings with dark-adapted perimetry, fundus reflectometry, and dark adaptometry showed intrafamilial and interfamilial consistency.