What's the difference between occlude and seclude?

Occlude


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To shut up; to close.
  • (v. t.) To take in and retain; to absorb; -- said especially with respect to gases; as iron, platinum, and palladium occlude large volumes of hydrogen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Infarct size is always expressed as a percentage of the perfusion area of the occluded artery.
  • (2) Metoprolol reduced exercise systemic arterial pressures, heart rate and cardiac index, and increased systemic vascular resistance index and pulmonary artery occluded pressure.
  • (3) No animal, however, in the 48-hour group either developed an aneurysm or occluded.
  • (4) All of the above patients had an acute inferior myocardial infarction, and in 10 of the 12 patients with supraventricular arrhythmias and in four of five with sinus dysrhythmias, the origin of the sinus node artery started just after an occluded right coronary or left circumflex artery or was involved in the occlusion.
  • (5) To explore relations between preload, afterload, and stroke volume (SV) in the fetal left ventricle, we instrumented 126-129 days gestation fetal lambs with ascending aortic electromagnetic flow transducers, vascular catheters, and inflatable occluders around the aortic isthmus (n = 8) or descending aorta (n = 7).
  • (6) In the group of 25 patients with critical ischaemia there were three operative deaths and in 10 the graft subsequently occluded, precipitating an amputation.
  • (7) At 10 weeks only the seeded grafts could be assessed because all of the control grafts had occluded.
  • (8) The aim of the present study was to determine whether diltiazem, administered during reperfusion, can improve regional blood flow and lower O2 extraction in the previously occluded region.
  • (9) At operation the superior mesenteric artery was found to be occluded distal to the origin of the middle colic artery.
  • (10) In 12 anaesthetized mongrel dogs, a canine stroke model was produced by occluding the left internal carotid and middle cerebral arteries with aneurysm clips.
  • (11) When left circumflex artery (LCX) was occluded, ST elevation in V4R lead after RCA occlusion was blocked.
  • (12) Spermine potentiation showed fast on-off kinetics, and intracellular spermine, loaded in the recording pipette, did not occlude potentiation by extracellularly applied spermine.
  • (13) A review of these patients' medical records documented that prior hemispheric symptoms referrable to the now occluded internal carotid artery had occurred in five (55%) of the nine patients who were admitted with stroke, five (62%) of the eight patients with a retinal infarct, six (60%) of the 10 patients who were admitted with a transient ischemic attack, all four (100%) patients who were admitted with amaurosis fugax, one (33%) of three patients with nonhemispheric symptoms, and in seven (70%) of the 10 patients who were asymptomatic when the internal carotid artery occlusion was identified angiographically.
  • (14) The device was composed of a standard biopsy brush, protected by a single catheter and occluded with an agar plug.
  • (15) Balloon-occluded arterial infusion with direct hemoperfusion has been performed for head and neck cancers with sufficiently good results.
  • (16) The authors have treated seven patients by using percutaneous placement of a detachable balloon to occlude a pseudoaneurysm of an upper extremity graft.
  • (17) The blanching activities and hence bioavailabilities of the cream, ointment and fatty ointment preparations of Nerisone and Temetex (diflucortolone valerate 0.1%) were evaluated using an occluded and unoccluded blanching assay.
  • (18) Unabsorbed 75SeHCAT was collected after total gut washout, which was administered distal to the occluding balloon.
  • (19) Peripupillary capillary loops are permanently occluded, but in a few cases, recanalization occurs.
  • (20) The stoichiometry of Rb+ occluded per phosphorylation site is 2.

Seclude


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with others.
  • (v. t.) To shut or keep out; to exclude.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bay of Bengal map The Mergui archipelago on the Thai-Myanmar border is one of the more secluded parts of the Bay.
  • (2) In 1985 the families of 137 passengers killed when a Delta Airlines jet crashed at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport stayed in a secluded hotel while waiting for the victims' bodies to be retrieved and identified.
  • (3) (2) The tendency to seclude on admission suggests failure to follow the legal stipulation that less restrictive measures be employed first.
  • (4) Ponder this as you take in mountain views through floor-to-ceiling windows or from the secluded patio.
  • (5) Unutma Meni (Don't Forget Me) features the 33-year-old brunette under the stage name GooGoosha - apparently her father's name for her - cavorting in a cartoon wonderland where she travels to a secluded castle and a tropical island in a limousine that floats through the air.
  • (6) Not only is he one of the BBC's most respected and best-paid figures, he is well-connected (his closest friend is the novelist Robert Harris), lives with his TV producer wife and three children in a secluded Oxfordshire village, and his brother is the British ambassador to Spain.
  • (7) Although many patients are secluded for violence against themselves or others, there are others who have not been violent who are secluded.
  • (8) This might partly be explained by genetic factors (such as inbreeding); we identified 3 families, all from Vorarlberg (which is a small, secluded mountain area), in which both parents were carriers of the MH trait.
  • (9) I met Attenborough last weekend, as arranged, in a secluded patch of earth behind some reeds at the new wetlands centre he himself had ceremonially opened.
  • (10) To visit the Grand Canyon, in north-west Arizona, choose between the more developed South Rim, which is open year-round, and has drive-up overlooks, museums and mule rides, or the more secluded North Rim, which is higher in elevation and closed to vehicles from mid-October until mid-May because of the snow (skiers and snowshoers are welcome).
  • (11) If history isn’t your thing, the park also offers plenty of coastal scenery, including eight miles of hiking trails to secluded coves.
  • (12) According to local boatmen, the Rothschilds use this military-style craft to whisk their guests at a speed of 50 knots directly from the airport to a corner of north-east Corfu where the secluded coves and remote luxury villas have become a discreet playground for the rich and powerful to mix business and pleasure.
  • (13) In some secluded villages, DM was almost completely absent.
  • (14) Overall, New York City and large-town hospitals had the highest rates of seclusion and restraint, but analysis by age group showed that New York City had the lowest rate for patients under age 35, who constituted the majority of patients who were secluded or restrained, and large towns had the highest rate.
  • (15) This fact, together with data on disease distribution and HLA frequencies, supports our assumption that Jews in the North African diaspora lived as small secluded isolates even within the same geographical zones.
  • (16) It was found that 44 per cent of the patients were secluded during their stay.
  • (17) The interview takes place in a chic restaurant in Headingley, where she lives and writes in a secluded old stone house.
  • (18) The pristine white clapboard house, situated near the top of the hill on a secluded cul-de-sac, has raffia wallpaper and overstuffed leather couches.
  • (19) These three families, all from Vorarlberg, a secluded mountain area, represent 4.5% of all our MH-positive families (n = 61) and 7.3% of all MH-positive families where both parents had been tested (n = 41).
  • (20) Among the secluded cabins, opt for the well-furnished three-bedroom red one (sleeping six) and enjoy its hot tub.