(n.) One who, or that which, operates or produces an effect.
(n.) One who performs some act upon the human body by means of the hand, or with instruments.
(n.) A dealer in stocks or any commodity for speculative purposes; a speculator.
(n.) The symbol that expresses the operation to be performed; -- called also facient.
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.
Operatory
Definition:
(n.) A laboratory.
Example Sentences:
(1) These views are very practical for inferior synovial cavity arthrograms performed in the dental operatory since panoramic radiographic machines have become common in modern dental practices.
(2) Post operatory followed up by all patients ranged from one to seven years.
(3) Per-operatory assays showed that in patients with gallbladder disease or with cystic duct obstruction, ampicillin levels in the gallbladder bile were markedly lower than in the common duct bile.
(4) The operatory technic used is very classic: septoplasty as the first step, then rhinoplasty by extra mucosal way, with paramedial and lateral osteotomies allowing rebuilding of nasal osseous pyramid.
(5) The preventive-surface care operatory is the most basic yet most widely usable operatory.
(6) This paper discusses methods for improving vision in the dental operatory and details a new design for eyeglasses suitable for the presbyopic dentist.
(7) Post-operatory morbidity is 4.7% and mortality of 0.9%.
(8) On average, it took the students five minutes and four seconds to place the rubber dam and begin providing treatment to the patients attending the school's dental operatory.
(9) The post-operatory complications were present in 4 cases: in the same patient (15 months old) a hepatic artery thrombosis and then a portal vein thrombosis were observed; 3 patients had to have their biliary-digestive anastomosis redone.
(10) The unusually long period of time that the tooth survived might be attributed to a different approach to the replantation technique, such as occlusion adjustment prior to replantation, preoperative reduction of oral cavity bacteria and of the harmful aerosols commonly found in the dental operatory, placement of a noneugenol periodontal packing under the acrylic splint to prevent residual liquid monomer from seeping into the periodontal space, use of the patient's own blood and no other material to moisten the root while it was out of the socket, a short extraoral period, loose splinting, complete isolation of the operative site in the oral cavity, and completion of periodontal therapy before intentional replantation.
(11) In contrast, when the Rt lesion is complete, and whether the GLv is touched or not, the threshold increase is both higher and does not come down to the pre-operatory levels even after 15 post-operatory sessions.
(12) In this group, there was not gain on post-operatory infections complications nor on hospital staying, since this surgery has a little number of infections complications.
(13) The variables examined: Working hours per day, working days per week, weeks of holiday per year, patients treated per year, number of dental assistants, number of operatories room.
(14) The authors report their experience of per-operatory angiography in a series of 1,099 cases over 13 consecutive years.
(15) This case shows an other topographic possibility to post operatory aneurysm, mainly developed on the intracranial internal carotid artery or her branches.
(16) We report on the results of a randomized study of 1 g céfotiam flash pre-operative antibioprophylaxis to prevent post-operatory infection complications in non-endoscopic urologic surgery.
(17) Results suggest that pre-existing dental fear levels may produce greater self-report, behavioral or physiological arousal in the dental operatory than exogenous epinephrine.
(18) Furthermore, to illustrate several of the techniques proposed, we have during the month of May 1990, systematically filmed different behavior patterns of children in the waiting room, as well as, in the dental operatory.
(19) A low-cost portable dental operatory system has been developed for the provision of removable prosthodontic services to the Alzheimer's patient.
(20) Most respondents washed or removed their gloves before leaving the operatory to process films, thereby stopping the spread of saliva.