(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.
Tracheotomy
Definition:
(n.) The operation of making an opening into the windpipe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Children with tracheotomy tubes are frequently cared for by nurses in critical care settings, as well as on general patient care units.
(2) The risk factors were: duration of urinary or vascular catheterization, tracheal intubation, tracheotomy and artificial ventilation.
(3) The only incidents seen were related to the lack of tracheotomy: subcutaneous oedema of the neck during the postoperative period in eight patients and moderate tracheobronchial congestion in five patients.
(4) Nevertheless, the right vocal cord mobility, driven only by the right superior laryngeal nerve, was enough to secure an adequate airway without the need for a tracheotomy.
(5) Electromyographic activity of the CT and right posterior cricoarytenoid muscle was monitored in anesthetized cats during tracheotomy breathing and in response to tracheal or upper airway occlusion in the intact animal.
(6) Tracheotomy in children has two main fields of indication: 1) obstructions of the upper respiratory tract, the main cause being today the post-intubation stenosis; 2) long term mechanical ventilation.
(7) We reviewed 265 rigid bronchoscopies performed in 50 children with tracheotomy-dependent subglottic stenosis (25 congenital, 25 acquired).
(8) Only three patients had complications linked to the tracheotomy, complications which were the cause of the death of two of them.
(9) After multiple childhood laryngoscopies and a tracheotomy, a 54-year-old, 30-pack per year smoker, who had never received radiation therapy, developed a florid exophytic transglottic squamous cell carcinoma.
(10) Disadvantages include the propensity for excessive mucus production (needing tracheotomy), the requirement for an abdominal operation, and the possibility of peptic ulceration (no case reported in the literature).
(11) The efficiency of this method has been proven and it is a method that must be preferable to tracheotomy.
(12) Granulomas treated after mucosal trauma (tracheotomy, foreign body).
(13) Discharging a child home with a tracheotomy is a process that involves many people.
(14) A translaryngeal tube can be converted to a tracheotomy safely in burn victims; tracheotomies are easier to manage if burns of the neck are excised and grafted prior to placement.
(15) The association of these disorders with severe laryngeal injury should lead to consideration of earlier tracheotomy in such patients.
(16) Three of the infants with respiratory failure required tracheotomy.
(17) (5) The importance of temporary intubation to relieve respiratory obstruction in infants is stressed, while the significant laryngeal damage following prolonged intubation and delayed tracheotomy is apparent.
(18) Eighteen patients treated by nasotracheal intubation were devoid of sequelae, whereas of six patients in whom tracheotomy was performed, one developed an ugly scar and two had slight tracheal stenosis at the tracheostomy site.
(19) The main advantages and purposes of the AO approach are early active pain-free functional movement; avoidance of intermaxillary fixation; safe, secured airways without tracheotomies, especially in polytraumatized patients; and shorter periods of hospitalization.
(20) Tracheotomies for children with CNS disorders and craniofacial anomalies are relatively more frequent.