What's the difference between obliterate and obliterative?

Obliterate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.
  • (v. t.) To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity.
  • (a.) Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A new technique to obliterate the mastoid volume or to reduce an old cavity by means of hydroxyapatite granulate is presented.
  • (2) The dilemma focuses on whether the obliteration or removal of the cystic areas will benefit or cause further deterioration of the patient's condition.
  • (3) The peculiar configuration of the pneumocephalus is attributed to the partial obliteration of the subarachnoid space due to the increased intracranial pressure.
  • (4) On 26 April 1937 this market town was obliterated in three hours of bombing by Nazi planes, allies of Generalísimo Francisco Franco’s fascists in the Spanish civil war.
  • (5) It is concluded that obliteration of oesophageal varices by endoscopic sclerotherapy and propranolol may be more effective in the long-term control of variceal recurrence than treatment with sclerotherapy only.
  • (6) Practolole, a selective beta1-adrenoblocking agent, potentiates the effect of cordarone on the myocardium and also obliterates the difference between the effects of the drug in animals under general anesthesia and in free behavior.
  • (7) Neutral dextran clearances for radii greater than 30 A were elevated during the PEAK period, and, concurrently, there was extensive intraglomerular microthrombosis, obliteration of foot processes, and disruption of filtration slit diaphragms.
  • (8) Obliteration of the endolymphatic duct resulted in endolymphatic hydrops of varying severity in 55% of the rats, after survival times varying from one to five months.
  • (9) Obliteration of the right endolymphatic sac was performed by Kimura's method in 57 guinea pigs with normal hearing and vestibular function.
  • (10) Soft tissue obliteration with autograft bone paste is the most versatile and commonly used technique.
  • (11) Obliteration of the empty sella with an extradural silicone balloon via the transsphenoidal approach seemed to have been effective for headache and visual complaints of primary empty sella syndrome which did not respond to medical therapy.
  • (12) Discoloration and pulpal obliteration were the major manifestations.
  • (13) The treatment was almost only in those angiopathies successful, in which the fluorescein angiography showed a preponderance of the hyperpermeability over the obliterating process of retinal capillaries.
  • (14) In conclusion, obliteration of the inner margin of the central vein and the opacity that decreased the radiolucency extending to the peripheral side of the upper lobe bronchus are strongly suggestive of interlobar lymph node enlargement.
  • (15) The veins which are not compressable during erection can eventually be obliterated under radiological control with the help of mini-coils.
  • (16) Direct injection of gastric varices is difficult because of increased postsclerotherapy bleeding, but sclerosis of esophageal varices often leads to their obliteration by the caudad flow of sclerosant.
  • (17) The prerequisites to achieve this goal are: the radical exenteration of the mastoid, antrum and epitympanum, the maximal reduction of the volume of the cavity by extensive lateral removal of bone and the adequate shaping of the cavity walls by obliteration of the bone pockets.
  • (18) In 20-35 per cent of short (up to 05 cm) urethral stenosis or cicatricial obliterations of urethra it was found advisable to start the treatment with nonoperative technique.
  • (19) Polypropylene mesh is then passed down the laparoscope, placed into the defect to obliterate the space, and the edges of the peritoneum are then reapproximated.
  • (20) A combined morphological and physiological study on the effect of saccus obliteration on the cochlea and the vestibular labyrinth of the rat is presented.

Obliterative


Definition:

  • (a.) Tending or serving to obliterate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No signs of significant obliterative arterial changes were found.
  • (2) Hepatic fibrosis with obliterative lesions of the small hepatic veins occurred in a three month old infant with fatal congenital leukaemia treated with cytostatic drugs.
  • (3) This demonstrates the low incidence of obliterative lesions (4 cases throughout the world) which are always associated with collateral vascularization.
  • (4) In most patients there was an oblitering angiopathie of digital type, stage II to IV, confirmed by angiography.
  • (5) The angiographic hallmark of allograft arteriopathy is an extensive, diffuse, obliterative process that primarily involves distal, small, subendocardial arteries.
  • (6) The frequent occurrence of adhesive and obliterative pericarditis with loculated effusions suggests the need for pericardiectomy rather than pericardiocentesis in the patient with rheumatoid arthritis and symptomatic pericardial involvement.
  • (7) The process of atherosclerosis as a cause of the proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells in complicated by ulceration, parietal and obliterative thrombosis as well by intramural hemorrhages.
  • (8) The role of the parasite in the production of obliterative arteritis in this fatal case of haemorrhagic enteropathy is discussed.
  • (9) Defibrotide (D) a polidesoxyribonucleotidic derivative provided with fibrinolytic and antithrombotic activity has already proven effective when administered by parenteral route in patients with peripheral obliterative arterial disease (POAD).
  • (10) Peripheral deposition of 99m Tc-DTPA was uniform in normal subjects and patients with CFA, but patchy in patients with obliterative bronchiolitis, possibly resulting from altered patterns of ventilation associated with patchy distribution of bronchiolitis within affected lungs.
  • (11) We examined a 26-year-old woman with biopsy-proven Crohn's disease who developed a severe bilateral, obliterative retinal arteritis and phlebitis, leading to a marked loss of vision.
  • (12) This study of 41 cases of young patients with obliterative arterial disease treated surgically, with follow-up for 6 and a half years, used the standard classification.
  • (13) According to these findings we see the decisive mechanism for the pathogenesis of all stenosing, obliterative arteriopathies in a disturbed interaction between vessel wall and arterially circulating blood.
  • (14) The overall risk of soft tissue organ failure caused by the obliterative sickle vasculopathy (including stroke, renal failure, chronic lung disease with cor pulmonale, leg ulcers, and young adult death) was increased threefold in those with a CAR haplotype and was decreased in those with a Senegalese chromosome (p = 0.003).
  • (15) By means of a polarographic method, the peculiarities of blood distribution in the tissues of the lower extremities in 34 patients with obliterative atherosclerosis and in 29--with obliterative endarteritis after sympathectomy were studied.
  • (16) These findings indicate that pulmonary vascular disease begins at or soon after birth with abnormal pulmonary vascular remodelling which leads to obliterative pulmonary vascular disease.
  • (17) Since obliterative bronchiolitis may be reversed by early recognition and treatment of rejection, we have aggressively used bronchoscopy with transbronchial lung biopsy and bronchoalveolar lavage for surveillance of both rejection and infection in our recent patients.
  • (18) Regional hemodynamics in the lower limbs was studied in 250 patients (480 lower limbs) with obliterative lesions of the abdominal aorta and lower limb arteries.
  • (19) Angiographic diagnosis and therapy are discussed in relationship to the indications and follow-up of radiological interventions in patients with obliterative atherosclerosis located in the arteries of the pelvis and lower limbs.
  • (20) Patients with peripheral obliterative arterial disease, ischaemic cardiopathies and cerebrovascular insufficiencies show a diminution in blood fluidity during spontaneous or provoked ischaemic conditions which disappears after reperfusion of the tissue.

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