What's the difference between obstructed and proprietary?

Obstructed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Obstruct

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have previously shown that intratracheally instilled silica (quartz) produces both morphologic evidence of emphysema and small-airway changes, and functional evidence of airflow obstruction.
  • (2) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
  • (3) A segment of vas deferens was transplanted to the contralateral deferens with the intention of improving treatment for certain cases of infertility caused by obstruction.
  • (4) In the case presented, overdistension of a jejunostomy catheter balloon led to intestinal obstruction and pressure necrosis (of the small bowel), with subsequent abscess formation leading to death from septicemia.
  • (5) During the procedure, acute respiratory failure developed as a result of tracheal obstruction.
  • (6) Intranasal challenge of allergic subjects with the allergen to which they are sensitive rapidly produces sneezing, rhinorrhea, and airway obstruction.
  • (7) Delineation of the presence and anatomy of an obstructed, nonfunctioning upper-pole duplex system often requires multiple imaging techniques.
  • (8) Therefore, the measurement of the alpha-antitrypsin content plays the crucial part in differential diagnosis of primary (hereditary determined) and secondary (obstructive) emphysema.
  • (9) In 2 patients who had received cadaveric renal allograft, ureteral obstruction was detected six and one-half and five and one-half years after transplantation.
  • (10) Two cases are presented of bilateral ureteral obstruction and uremia due to pressure from nodes involved in disseminated lymphoma.
  • (11) The occurrence of episodes of desaturation during sleep in patients suffering from chronic airflow obstruction is well known.
  • (12) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
  • (13) Tubal obstruction could be demonstrated in only one of these patients.
  • (14) Schistosomal obstructive uropathy was studied by clinical, laboratory epidemiologic and pathologic analysis in 155 Egyptian patients treated surgically.
  • (15) For obstruction of greater than or equal to 50% of the pulmonary vascular cross-sectional area and pulmonary hypertension thrombolytic therapy should be given and insertion of an inferior caval filter can be considered.
  • (16) Regression of the tumor occurred during an episode of mechanical small bowel obstruction.
  • (17) Comparison with 99Tc-pyrophosphate uptake in infarcted dog heart, induced by selective obstruction of a coronary artery, suggest that the 111In-labelled F(ab')2 localizes specifically in infarcted myocardium only.
  • (18) In case of biliary and pancreatic duct obstruction with pure pancreatic reflux, both oedema and inflammatory infiltrations were evident, whereas, in the presence of biliary reflux too, more serious histological features were detected.
  • (19) We recently treated a patient in whom HPVG was caused by intestinal pseudo-obstruction.
  • (20) In patients with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, although either sympathomimetic or anticholinergic therapy provides bronchodilatation, no further benefit could be demonstrated from combination therapy.

Proprietary


Definition:

  • (n.) A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own right.
  • (n.) A body proprietors, taken collectively.
  • (n.) A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
  • (a.) Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors report on a comparative study of social work services in proprietary and nonprofit hospitals that used the results of the Membership Survey, 1985 of the Society for Hospital Social Work Directors and a sample of 50 proprietary hospital social work departments.
  • (2) Described herein is a simple, efficient, inexpensive, reproducible, and safe procedure using Peldri II, a proprietary fluorocarbon compound that is solid at room temperature and a liquid above 25 degrees C, as a sublimation dehydrant for processing specimens for SEM.
  • (3) A proprietary insecticidal mulesing powder containing diazinon and an experimental liquid dressing based on eucalyptus oil, naphthalene, cresylic acid and chlorfenvinphos in a carrier of liquid hydrocarbons and petroleum oil were compared for their ability to promote wound healing and reduce the incidence of fly strike in freshly mulesed lambs.
  • (4) The proprietary treatments were etching, silanation, surface activation, etching plus silanation, and etching plus surface activation.
  • (5) The reasons for the expanded growth of proprietary chains over nonprofit systems of ambulatory care are also discussed.
  • (6) Flexible silicone posterior chamber intraocular lenses made of a proprietary formulation were implanted in rabbits following planned extracapsular lens extraction.
  • (7) Diminished reimbursement places a greater financial burden upon not-for-profit centers over those that are proprietary.
  • (8) The results indicate that present recommendations for infant feeding in Finland--including prolonged breast feeding, the use of proprietary milk formulas after weaning, and later introduction of solid foods--prevent overnutrition.
  • (9) This report compares fat, nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus, zinc, and copper absorption and retention data from 13 nutritional balance studies performed in 12 appropriate-for-gestational-age premature infants with birth weights less than or equal to 1,600 g fed a proprietary premature formula or their own mother's preterm human milk (PTHM) fortified with a powdered protein-mineral supplement.
  • (10) Emphasis has been placed on the stability problems which could arise upon dilution of proprietary preparations by the use of model systems.
  • (11) This study assessed changes in the structure and quality of care on 13 acute care psychiatric units before and after a single outside proprietary firm was hired to manage the units.
  • (12) The quali-quantitative characterization of such extracts, as active ingredients for the formulation of proprietary medicinal products, requires therefore, if compared with that of pure products, to set up a specific analytical development in relation to the complexity and the grade of refinement attained by the multicomponent mixture.
  • (13) I’ve got nothing against proprietary software: as the eponymous heroine says of chemistry in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie : “For those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like.” But when, as in the VW case, software has the potential or the power to have an adverse effect on human life or wellbeing, then we have to hold it to a different standard.
  • (14) This article attempts to place in proper perspective the legal and ethical aspects of proprietary rights as they apply to federally funded media programs.
  • (15) However, the same pesky proprietary screws are present, and it's never a joy to encounter fused (read: expensive to replace) displays.
  • (16) It is anticipated that research into the important public policy issues regarding relationships between costs and proprietary status and quality of care will be enhanced by developing teaching nursing homes.
  • (17) In Experiment 1, laying hens on a proprietary layer mash were compared with hens rested from lay by the feeding of whole grain barley.
  • (18) The case of a 17 year old abuser of butane aerosols who developed fulminant hepatic failure after taking a proprietary engine or carburetor cleaner is described.
  • (19) The declining incidence of this disorder is felt to be due to the decrease in physicians' use of prescription bromides and the declining availability of proprietary bromide containing compounds.
  • (20) The infants were weaned at different ages either to a proprietary infant milk formula or to a home-prepared cow's milk formula.