What's the difference between operation and procedure?

Operation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
  • (n.) The method of working; mode of action.
  • (n.) That which is operated or accomplished; an effect brought about in accordance with a definite plan; as, military or naval operations.
  • (n.) Effect produced; influence.
  • (n.) Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols.
  • (n.) Any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, to produce a curative or remedial effect, as in amputation, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
  • (2) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
  • (3) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
  • (4) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
  • (5) Seventeen patients (Group 1) had had no previous surgery, while 13 (Group 2) had had multiple previous operations.
  • (6) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
  • (7) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
  • (8) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
  • (9) At operation, the tumour was identified and excised with part of the aneurysmal wall.
  • (10) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
  • (11) No consistent relationship could be found between the time interval from SAH to operation and the severity of vasospasm.
  • (12) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
  • (13) The present findings indicate that the deafferented [or isolated] hypothalamus remains neuronally isolated from the environment if the operation is carried out later than the end of the first week of life.
  • (14) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
  • (15) In the past 6 years 26 patients underwent operation for recurrent duodenal ulcer after what was considered to be an "adequate" initial operation.
  • (16) The operative arteriograms confirmed vascular occlusive phenomenon.
  • (17) The reference library used in the operation of a computerized search program indicates the closest matches in the reference library data with the IR spectrum of an unknown sample.
  • (18) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
  • (19) Six of the patients were operated using the McIndoe and Bannister technique while on the other two the Tobin and Day technique was used.
  • (20) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.

Procedure


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct.
  • (n.) A step taken; an act performed; a proceeding; the steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
  • (n.) That which results; issue; product.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this paper, we show representative experiments illustrating some characteristics of the procedure which may have wide application in clinical microbiology.
  • (2) The procedure was used on 71 occasions, and in each case a clinical diagnosis was made and compared with the cytological diagnosis made independently by a pathologist.
  • (3) All the women had vaginal ultrasound velocimetry studies in both mainstem uterine arteries through the parametrium before the surgical procedure and again after the procedure.
  • (4) The procedure used in our laboratory was not able to provide accurate determination of the concentrations of these binding forms.
  • (5) Recovery of CV-3988 from plasma averaged 81.7% for the column procedure and 40% for the organic extraction.
  • (6) These authors, therefore, conclude that this modified surgical approach is a viable alternative to the previously described procedures for resistant metatarsus adductus.
  • (7) We have developed a new procedure for the rapid preparation of undegraded total RNA from cultured cells for specific quantitation by dot blotting analysis.
  • (8) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
  • (9) In this study, standby and prophylactic patients had comparable success and major complication rates, but procedural morbidity was more frequent in prophylactic patients.
  • (10) Time-series analysis and multiple-regression modeling procedures were used to characterize changes in the overall incidence rate over the study period and to describe the contribution of additional measures to the dynamics of the incidence rates.
  • (11) Breast reconstruction should not be limited to the requiring patients, but should represent, in selected cases with favourable prognosis, an integrative and complementary procedure of the treatment.
  • (12) We have measured the antibody specificities to the two polysaccharides in sera from asymptomatic group C meningococcal carriers and vaccinated adults by a new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) procedure using methylated human serum albumin for coating the group C polysaccharide onto microtiter plates.
  • (13) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
  • (14) During the procedure, acute respiratory failure developed as a result of tracheal obstruction.
  • (15) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
  • (16) Average fluoroscopy time per procedure was 27.8 minutes of which 15.1 minutes were for nephrostomy tube insertion and 12.7 minutes were for calculi extraction.
  • (17) The result of this study demonstrates that both the "hat" and "inverted" type grafts are highly successful and satisfactory procedures.
  • (18) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
  • (19) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (20) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.