What's the difference between measurement and tonometry?
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.
Tonometry
Definition:
(n.) The act of measuring with a tonometer;
(n.) measurement of tension, esp. the tension of the eyeball.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intraocular pressure should be controlled via applanation tonometry, beginning with the fourth day after goniotrepanation, for a period of about three weeks, for early detection of postoperative pressure increases which can occur occasionally, so that they may be treated by digital massage of the bulb.
(2) In this paper, a new tonometry was developed to indirectly record the BP of the superficial temporal artery.
(3) As shown by us for the first time, oculopression tonometry can also serve to evaluate aqueous humor formation.
(4) Tonometry of blood samples from patients may also be used in the determination of acid-base quantities and hemoglobin-oxygen affinity e.g.
(5) Averaged Pulsair measurements agreed well with Perkins applanation tonometry values under general anaesthesia.
(6) Conversion factors and a calibration table allowing intraocular pressure estimates more comparable to Goldmann tonometry using the current (J-series) Pulsair are provided herein.
(7) A new oxygen tonometry system consisting of a silicone tube, highly permeable to O2 and CO2 is described.
(8) The effect of repeated tonometry in this study is considered.
(9) This review discusses the basic principles of tonometry, the results of experimental and clinical studies, and the practical aspects related to the implementation and use of tonometers in patients in the critical care unit.
(10) In a series of patients with ocular hypertension, the effect of water drinking upon pressure and outflow facility was determined by impression (Schiotz) tonometry and tonography.
(11) Goldmann applanation tonometry was performed by the author and was accepted as a reference system for the measurements made by a technician using the Pneumatonograph, the GlaucoTest screening tonometer, the Halberg tonometer and the Schiotz tonometer.
(12) Through the methods of oxihemometry, tonometry and intracardial phonocardiography the possibility of clinically supposed heart defect-congenital or acquired--is excluded.
(13) Each week, birds were subjected to applanation tonometry for measurement of intraocular pressures (IOP).
(14) The results from the rectosigmoid tonometry must be interpreted together with the rest of the indices (AT, size of rectal folds, etc).
(15) Automated static threshold perimetry was performed in both eyes of 10 normal and 12 ocular hypertensive subjects treated with a topical beta-blocker, before and after Goldmann applanation tonometry of their right eyes.
(16) The association of TEE and tonometry thereby provides a direct approach to the evaluation of aortic compliance.
(17) We measured IOP with Goldmann's applanation tonometry in two positions: the primary position, when the patient looks straight ahead and then on upgaze.
(18) Because of the high false positive and negative rates for detection of suspects when screening for glaucoma by tonometry, we screened 12 156 subjects over the age of 40 years or with a stated family history of glaucoma by examining the optic discs.
(19) These systoles probably occurred during the first part of applanation tonometry and during the first few office visits.
(20) If reading-glasses are always prescribed by the ophthalmologist and tonometry is done on each such patient, then this is the adequate and sufficient protection of the population against glaucoma blindness.