What's the difference between punction and unction?
Punction
Definition:
(n.) A puncturing, or pricking; a puncture.
Example Sentences:
(1) Before, the range of indication was clearly outlined, the technique of punction, obtaining and processing of material was discussed, and the complications and limits of the methods were pointed to.
(2) Echography facilitated, in this way, the punction of the trapped aqueous.
(3) In the first case (tubo-ovarian abscess) the patient became pregnant 2 months after de punction having actually a physiologic evolution.
(4) Significant connections were found between clinical pathological findings next to the position of punction and the occurrence of local complications.
(5) In this study a new trocar-cannula-unit(10 French) is introduced, which was used in a prospective randomised comparative study in 74 patients for suprapubic bladder punction.
(6) RVRS by direct peroperative punction indicates (a posteriori) hormonal secretion from the right kidney lower pole.
(7) Compared to the poor prognosis of an untreated pregnancy, we consider the punction even of large volumes of amniotic fluid as a procedure of an acceptable risk.
(8) Risky surgery in the acute phase of the disease could be avoided by ultrasonic guided percutaneous punction and placing of several, partly transhepatic, catheters.
(9) Mild hematuria can be expected at almost every punction, so it should not be treated as a complication.
(10) These last ones are most used and include the punction and the drainage of the blood of the cavernous body and sometime the "shunt" spongio-cavernosum.
(11) In patients with signs of intracranial hypertension caused by subdural haematoma or brain oedema following craniocerebral trauma significantly increased concentrations of HVA and 5-HIAA were found in the cerebrospinal fluid obtained by means of lumbar punction in relation to a control group comprising patients with lumbar disc prolapse.
(12) Resistance to the usual treatment and the evolution of the disease with association of pulmonary manifestation and fever have lead to the diagnostic of Wegener granulomatosis confirmed by ANCA test and renal punction.
(13) The results with dimethylsulfoxide show that the currently employed techniques of punction, preparation, freezing and thawing of bone marrow are suitable for clinical application.
(14) Twenty-six patients, aged 38 to 78 years, with testicular hydrocele were treated by aspiration, punction and tetracycline instillation.
(15) 5.5% of the histologically ascertained cold nodules were malignant, in 19% of the cases with cold nodes thyroid punction revealed cystic lesions.
(16) There was no statistically significant correlation between the levels of calcitonin and serotonin with the age, weight, height, sex, values of analogic visual scale 2, 4, 6, 12 and 24 hours after lumbar punction, and duration of the analgesia.
(17) Short bibiolographical review of Werner Kümmel and Karl Beck especially about their scientifical work concerning diagnostical and therapeutical punction of the frontal sinus.
(18) Pleural punction should be avoided because of possible complications, abdominal punction is helpful, whereas pneumoperitoneum is dangerous in the present respiratory insufficiency.
(19) It means a thorough biochemical and functional exploration, scintigraphy (as an outpatient), radiography of neck and its soft tissues, eventually tomography and more seldom are required: the echography, scan (as an out-door patient), punction.
(20) In the present case of an intramural utriculus cyst a conservative approach (cyst punction) is indicated.
Unction
Definition:
(n.) The act of anointing, smearing, or rubbing with an unguent, oil, or ointment, especially for medical purposes, or as a symbol of consecration; as, mercurial unction.
(n.) That which is used for anointing; an unguent; an ointment; hence, anything soothing or lenitive.
(n.) Divine or sanctifying grace.
(n.) That quality in language, address, or the like, which excites emotion; especially, strong devotion; religious fervor and tenderness; sometimes, a simulated, factitious, or unnatural fervor.
Example Sentences:
(1) The loss of physical unctions is comparable to that in the case of paraplegia.
(2) It is suggested that the intermitochondrial unctions may well represent elaborate forms of interaction between organelles in order to enhance metabolic efficiency in times of stress.