What's the difference between narrow and tarsorrhaphy?
Narrow
Definition:
(superl.) Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem.
(superl.) Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
(superl.) Having but a little margin; having barely sufficient space, time, or number, etc.; close; near; -- with special reference to some peril or misfortune; as, a narrow shot; a narrow escape; a narrow majority.
(superl.) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances.
(superl.) Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, a narrow mind; narrow views.
(superl.) Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
(superl.) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; -- distinguished from wide; as e (eve) and / (f/d), etc., from i (ill) and / (f/t), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13.
(n.) A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor.
(v. t.) To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of.
(v. t.) To contract the reach or sphere of; to make less liberal or more selfish; to limit; to confine; to restrict; as, to narrow one's views or knowledge; to narrow a question in discussion.
(v. t.) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
(v. i.) To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait.
(v. i.) Not to step out enough to the one hand or the other; as, a horse narrows.
(v. i.) To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one.
Example Sentences:
(1) The PSB dioxygenase system displayed a narrow substrate range: none of 18 sulphonated or non-sulphonated analogues of PSB showed significant substrate-dependent O2 uptake.
(2) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
(3) This promotion of repetitive activity by the introduction of additional potassium channels occurred up to an "optimal" value beyond which a further increase in paranodal potassium permeability narrowed the range of currents with a repetitive response.
(4) In all immunized rabbits the antisera obtained with the 7 alpha-derivative had a higher affinity and a narrower specificity than the antiserum obtained with the 7 beta-derivative.
(5) That is, he believes, to look at massively difficult, interlocking problems through too narrow a lens.
(6) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(7) Their narrowed processes pass at a common site through the muscle layer and above this layer again slightly widen and project above the neighbouring tegument.
(8) These patients did not have narrow anterior chamber angles preoperatively, and several were aphakix with surgical iris colobomas.
(9) The linewidths of the methionine Cepsilon resonances are narrowed by increasing temperature according to an Arrhenius energy of activation of nearly 3 kcal.
(10) The detergent lauryl maltoside abolishes respiratory control and proton ejection by cytochrome c oxidase-containing proteoliposomes over a narrow concentration range.
(11) Per-rotational nystagmus was recorded in rabbits with unilaterally narrowed vertebral arteries or following unilateral cervical sympathectomies.
(12) However, the narrow range of the ED50 suggests relatively little variation in the response of the different isolates in vivo and similarly small variation was also noted in some of the tests in vitro.
(13) Eight patients had glaucoma only in one eye; three narrow-angle glaucoma, three primary open-angle glaucoma and two secondary glaucoma.
(14) In the fifth case the vein was too narrow to allow catheterization.
(15) It was found that within the dorsal part of the well known pressor area there is a narrow strip, 2.5 mm lateral from the mid line, starting ventral to the inferior colliculus and ending in the medulla close to the floor of the IV ventricle, from which vasodilatation in skeletal muscles is selectively obtained.
(16) Each border was within a region of 11 nucleotides and gave rise to a narrow size range (1248-1261 nucleotides) for the population of 22 subgenomic DNAs.
(17) These factors include narrowing of septal arteries and the artery to the atrioventricular node, preservation of fetal anatomy with dispersion in the atrioventricular node and His bundle, fibrosis of the sinus node, clefts in the septum, multiple atrioventricular pathways and massive myocardial infarction.
(18) Time suggests that the FBI inquiry has been extended from a relatively narrow look at alleged malpractices by News Corp in America into a more general inquiry into whether the company used possibly illegal strongarm tactics to browbeat rival firms, following allegations of computer hacking made by retail advertising company Floorgraphics.
(19) These three activities, appearing within a narrow range of molecular weights, different from those of other known lymphokines, suggest the existence of a distinct class of lymphokine mediators with the common function of influencing functional properties of tumor cells.
(20) The narrow intercellular ridge is smooth, whereas the epithelial cells have small cytoplasmic knobs between the cilia.
Tarsorrhaphy
Definition:
(n.) An operation to diminish the size of the opening between eyelids when enlarged by surrounding cicatrices.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although tarsorrhaphy has been the mainstay of treatment for lagophthalmus associated with facial paralysis, it has many drawbacks which make it a less than ideal procedure.
(2) When combined with a brow lift and tarsorrhaphy, symmetry of the facial appearance while at rest has also been obtained.
(3) The patient was treated with tarsorrhaphy and ocular lubricants.
(4) A simple and effective method of temporary tarsorrhaphy, which is referred to as intermarginal serpentine temporary tarsorrhaphy, is presented.
(5) Tarsorrhaphy relieves the problem of persistent epithelial defects in neurotrophic keratitis and a variety of other conditions characterized by persistent surface breakdown.
(6) This problem can be successfully managed by a combination of conjunctival fornix sutures to invaginate the prolapsed conjunctiva and temporary suture tarsorrhaphy.
(7) Available methods of therapy range from simple medical means, through soft contact lenses and tarsorrhaphy, to conjunctival flaps and keratoplasty.
(8) The corneal response to a complete tarsorrhaphy was studied in 46 rabbits for time periods up to 21 days.
(9) Exposure and neurotrophic keratopathy may respond to topical lubricants and correction of lid abnormalities but severely affected corneas may require tarsorrhaphy or conjunctival flap to maintain corneal integrity.
(10) Surgical division of the tarsorrhaphy can be performed easily with little, if any, defect of the eyelids.
(11) Beginning in 1986, a lateral canthal suspension consisting of either a lateral tarsal strip or a lateral tarsorrhaphy was added to the scleral implantation ("intermediate" procedure) and was performed in seven patients.
(12) Loss of vision in the left eye due to severe proptosis was reversed by prompt aspiration and tarsorrhaphy.
(13) Satisfactory static reconstruction of the face may be accomplished with the use of a brow lift, tarsorrhaphy, and correction of the paralyzed mouth.
(14) The resulting excellent hemostatic qualities decreased the time, supplies, and ancillary help needed to do the tarsorrhaphy.
(15) Surgical treatments, including punctal occlusion, tarsorrhaphy, conjunctival flaps, contact lenses, superficial keratectomy, as well as parotid duct transposition, are discussed and the procedure indicated which is best suited to the case.
(16) Although no significant difference was observed between any of the drug-treated groups, lateral tarsorrhaphy was associated with a greater than tenfold decrease in the number of colony-forming units (P = .073).
(17) We describe a tarsorrhaphy technique whereby an ipsilateral upper-eyelid tarsal pillar is sutured to a corresponding lower-eyelid recipient site.
(18) The healing rate was decreased with bandage lenses and increased by tarsorrhaphy.
(19) Experiments were designed to: (i) analyse the temporal accumulation of IgA-, IgG- and IgM-containing cells in lacrimal tissue during postnatal development (6-27 days of age); (ii) examine whether prevention of antigenic exposure to the ocular surface by unilateral tarsorrhaphy might inhibit lymphocyte immigration into the ipsilateral gland during development; and (iii) assess whether a non-invasive antigen, after placement on the ocular surface of infant or adult rats, undergoes retrograde transfer to the lacrimal gland.
(20) Only the fornix fixation sutures and the central tarsorrhaphy were employed for the proper placement of graft without the use of retention devices.