What's the difference between plication and shorten?
Plication
Definition:
(n.) A folding or fold; a plait.
Example Sentences:
(1) We reached the following conclusions: The incidence of operative phrenic nerve injury in infants undergoing lateral thoracotomy, particularly for Blalock-Taussig shunt, is higher than generally appreciated; plication is a safe procedure as performed by either an abdominal or thoracic approach; failure to achieve extubation within a week of plication is an ominous prognostic sign; mortality in patients with eventration in the presence of major associated conditions may be high despite plication.
(2) Sixteen patients with sternocleidomastoid flaps and 16 patients with superficial musculoaponeurotic system plication were compared to a control group of 104 patients.
(3) None of the patients treated by operation (plication or resection and suture of the bleb) had a later recurrence.
(4) Urinary leakage in 3 patients with a right colonic reservoir (2 with an intussuscepted ileal nipple valve and 1 with a plicated ileal segment as a continence mechanism) was managed with tapered narrowing of the nipple valve and the ileocecal valve, respectively, using stapling techniques.
(5) We conclude that plicatic acid-specific IgE and nonspecific bronchial hyperresponsiveness are associated in western red-cedar workers and that this association may reflect a causal connection.
(6) Favorable early results have been reported utilizing transthoracic diaphragmatic plication in symptomatic children with phrenic nerve injury.
(7) To avoid injury conduction system stitches were placed from upper margin of the VSD, and to keep away tricuspid regurgitation we plicated a depression of septal leaflet which caused by anomalous chordae in VSD patch closure.
(8) water, respectively, in the plicated ileal segment (p equals 0.043 and less than 0.001, respectively).
(9) In one case rupture of the repaired diaphragm developed 2 years after plication.
(10) Plicatic and abietic acids both caused dose- and time-dependent lysis of alveolar epithelial cells.
(11) In prevention of the recurrent intestinal obstruction we performed at the Department of Pediatric Surgery of the University of Mannheim a sutureless plication of the small bowel with fibrin glue only over the last 7-year period.
(12) Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome is classically defined as facial palsy, oedema facial and plication of the tongue, constituting one rare cause of facial palsy.
(13) The closure of large wounds created by the Mohs method of skin cancer removal may often be facilitated by the plication of the underlying fascia.
(14) To be effective plication of the SFJ has to reduce the calibre of the vein to 60-70% of the initial calibre for a length of 1-1.5 cm allowing the valve cusps to close when flow in the femoral vein is reversed (ie., by Valsalva manoeuvre).
(15) At celiotomy, 75 per cent underwent ulcer plication only; the remainder had a definitive acid reduction procedure.
(16) Plication significantly reduced end-systolic wall stresses and systolic stress integrals in the posterior border zone and remote myocardium, but it did not significantly change anterior wall systolic stresses or stress integrals.
(17) In this series of ten patients, evaluated 6 months after plication of the SFJ, venous reflux was significantly reduced (at Doppler and duplex examination and ambulatory venous pressure measurements) and the improvement of haemodynamic data was associated with improvement of symptoms.
(18) The Childs-Phillips plication operation was performed in forty-two patients, as treatment for recurrent small bowel obstruction in nineteen and as prophylaxis against future intestinal obstruction in twenty-three.
(19) Surgical technique was as follows: annuloplasty 9, plication of leaflet 4, closure of cleft 10, commissurotomy 2, displacement of papillary muscle 1.
(20) Seven adult patients with dyspnea resulting from nonmalignant unilateral diaphragmatic paralysis underwent plication of the affected hemidiaphragm.
Shorten
Definition:
(a.) To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.
(a.) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc.
(a.) To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
(a.) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like.
(v. i.) To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.
Example Sentences:
(1) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
(2) Hearing loss at 8 kHz would shorten the I-V interval, while a loss at 4 kHz would be expected to lengthen the interval.
(3) Both systems indicated that the Kupffer cell modified endotoxin by enriching the lipid content of the molecule and shortening the length of the O-antigen.
(4) Platelet survival time in patients with Crohn's disease proved to be significantly shortened (p less than 0.001), whereas platelet turnover appeared augmented.
(5) Shorten said any arrangement needed to be consistent with international obligations, with asylum seekers afforded due process and their claims properly assessed.
(6) Rapid, on-site detection of chlamydial antigen in male FVU would shorten the infectious period by hastening diagnosis and treatment.
(7) Isometric exercise induces a significant shortening of both intervals although minor for QT so that the ratio significantly increases in comparison to baseline (p less than .001).
(8) Light-induced cone shortening provides a useful model for stuying nonmuscle contraction because it is linear, slow, and repetitive.
(9) In the V fibers, APD was lengthened by F, Q, and B, and shortened by L and M. The drug-induced changes in the relation between APD and CL were as in the P fibers.
(10) The CL was also longer in the duodenum, whereas the CD was shortened, indicating a reduction of the wave movements from the stomach antrum to the duodenum in the ranitidine periods.
(11) Chloride caused a significant concentration-dependent shortening of myosin rods due to destabilization of the alpha-helical double coiled rod structure.
(12) Strong correlations were found also between postsystolic shortening and thickening measured immediately before reperfusion and systolic shortening and thickening measured after recovery at 2-3 weeks (r = 0.73, n = 28; p less than 0.001 for shortening; r = 0.79, n = 12; p less than 0.01 for thickening).
(13) Slight but significant shortening of the latency of initial positivity in the evoked potential was observed after rearing in the enriched condition as compared to the data obtained from the littermates that were reared in the standard or impoverished conditions.
(14) When using pair stimula, barbamil shortens the period of absolute nonexcitation and the second phase of depression in the cycle of restituted H-reflexes to the second stimula in the pair.
(15) Accordingly, RV systolic SL shortening did not rise despite the substantial augmentation in RV outflow.
(16) Chloroquine administration shortened the time taken to reach peak plasma paracetamol concentration (tmax) in five of the volunteers.
(17) The survival time of the lambs was markedly shortened with the bubble oxygenator, although much longer than had been anticipated.
(18) An algorithm for the treatment of cryptococcosis complicating AIDS may shorten the duration of primary intravenous AB therapy.
(19) VT returned to control levels, expiratory time shortened, and breathing frequency increased.
(20) Isotonically, peak muscle shortening was reduced in the left muscle, whereas time to peak shortening was prolonged in the right myocardium.