What's the difference between refection and resection?
Refection
Definition:
(n.) Refreshment after hunger or fatigue; a repast; a lunch.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results indicate that pre-S proteins in serum and the membranous display of pre-S2 on hepatocytes of patients with chronic HBV infection refect active viral replication, but their expression does not correlate with disease activity.
(2) Three of the grafts failed within six weeks as a result of irreversible refection, and one graft failed because of the early onset of venous thrombosis.
(3) The authors conclude that this combined pulse oximeter and end-tidal CO2 monitor can accurately refect SaO2 and PaCO2 in clinically useful ranges.
(4) The assays of lymphocyte-mediated cytotoxicity (LMC), antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) and complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC) were correlated with histopathologic criteria of refection in 35 transplant biopsies.
(5) A model was developed to relate the arterial surface accumulation of EBD to the light refected from the opened vessel surface.
(6) There was no radiological evidence of reduction in tumour size in the remaining seven patients, though this might refect the fairly short duration of treatment, particularly in view of the ancillary evidence of clinical, biochemical, and visual-field improvement in some of the patients.
(7) Type I fistulae, using a low approach and requiring urethral refection, showed good results in only 53% of cases.
(8) Surgical treatment ensured good parietal refection.
(9) "I think that one of the things that, for example, the comments by Starbucks this morning where they've said they want to come to the Treasury and HMRC to talk about their affairs is perhaps more of a refection of something quite new, which is the consumer pressure, if you like, the public pressure that has been put on those companies," he said.
(10) MHb efferents form the core portion of the fasciculus retroflexus and pass to the interpeduncular nucleus (IP) in which they terminate in a topographic pattern that refects 90 degrees rotations such that dorsal MHb projects to lateral IP, medial MHb to ventral, and lateral MHb to dorsal IP.
(11) The notion of instability sets the course in the field of therapeutical principles, of which the most important is, certainly, the refection of the major sustentation pillar--the internal or the calear-femural cortical.
(12) Angiography permitted recognition of common causes of post-transplantation dysfunction, including acute vasomotor nephropathy (AVN), acute refection (AR), chronic rejection, and obstruction of the ureter, renal artery, or renal vein.
(13) Those factors are clear to me now, through both self-refection during my confinement in various forms, and through the merits and sentecing testimony that I have seen here.
(14) Since blood carnitine is found predominantly in the plasma fraction, it is likely that these results refect the uptake and metabolism of plasma carnitine in vivo.
(15) "The report has undergone rigorous scrutiny to ensure it is a true refection of the programme.
Resection
Definition:
(n.) The act of cutting or paring off.
(n.) The removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the ends of the bones in a false articulation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both apertures were repaired with great caution using individual sutures without resection of the hernial sac.
(2) The remaining case had a calibre persistent submucosal artery within the caecum that was found incidentally in a resection specimen.
(3) After resection of the liver 13 patients of 31 died.
(4) It is suggested that the normal cyclical release of LH is inhibited in PCO disease by a negative feedback by androgens to the hypothalamus or the pituitary, and that wedge resection should be reserved for patients in whom other forms of treatment have failed.
(5) Expressed per centimeter of gut length, total DAO activity was also enhanced by +141% in segment B (P less than 0.05 vs controls) and by +87% in segment C (P less than 0.01 vs controls) of resected rats.
(6) Thus, it is effective to improve the survival rate of resected esophageal cancer with our indication based on preoperative staging.
(7) The use of a major pancreatic resection for the surgical management of necrotizing pancreatitis should be excluded from treatment protocols.
(8) The total resection was possible without opening of the tumor and reconstruction was possible with a tibial graft.
(9) Treatment modalities included: partial temporal bone resection, subtotal temporal bone resection, total temporal bone resection, radical mastoidectomy followed by radiation therapy, radiation therapy alone, and chemotherapy.
(10) Four hundred patients with resectable colon and rectal cancers were operated on by 37 surgeons at 31 institutions.
(11) To minimise the risk of recanalisation (0.2%), 20 mm of vas deferens was resected.
(12) The locations of remaining tumor were the tracheal stump in patients in whom resection was incomplete.
(13) For the 20 patients who received treatment in the latter period (1987-1990), we gave priority to conservative treatment for type T cases that were free from complications, and adopted a treatment method attaching greater importance to the resection of intimal tears.
(14) Staplers were used and therefore the choice between resection or amputation was determined by the degree of loco-regional infiltration of the neoplasm.
(15) Although patients treated with postoperative radiation therapy showed significantly extended survival rates as compared to those receiving surgical resection alone, the glioblastoma recurred within a 2cm margin of the primary site in more than 90% of the patients and conventional external radiation therapy with a doses of 50-60 Gy did not result in local cure.
(16) These results indicate that the routine use of a defunctioning colostomy at anterior resection should now be questioned.
(17) A transurethral prostatic resection for prostatism in a 73 year old man showed a cluster of richly capillarised clear cells originally thought to be indicative of invasive carcinoma.
(18) The gastroscopic evaluation of the acute type may be extremely difficult, especially after gastric resection, the survey being very poor.
(19) On the other hand it does not provide more useful information than the Pugh's score for surgical risk in liver resection.
(20) Fifty-four patients had pancreas cancer, confirmed by resection or biopsy in all cases.