What's the difference between resect and reset?

Resect


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cut or pare off; to remove by cutting.

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.

Reset


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To set again; as, to reset type; to reset copy; to reset a diamond.
  • (n.) The act of resetting.
  • (n.) That which is reset; matter set up again.
  • (n.) The receiving of stolen goods, or harboring an outlaw.
  • (v. t.) To harbor or secrete; to hide, as stolen goods or a criminal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
  • (2) Electromagnetic interference presented as inhibition and resetting of the demand circuitry of a ventricular-inhibited temporary external pacemaker in a 70-year-old man undergoing surgical implantation of a permanent bipolar pacemaker generator and lead.
  • (3) It is shown that when a constant current is applied such that a stable equilibrium and rhythmic firing are present, the following predictions are inherent in the HH system of equations: (a) Small instantaneous voltage perturbations to the axon given at points along its firing spike result in phase resetting curves (when new phase versus old phase is plotted) with an average slope of 1.
  • (4) The timing of knee extensor activity within the hip cycle is different for each form of the scratch (Robertson et al., 1985); thus, the sign of the reset cannot be predicted from the timing of the stimulus relative to the knee extensor cycle.
  • (5) But others do: gift cards for Amazon.co.uk, for example, expire one year from the date of issue, while Marks & Spencer gift cards are valid for four years, although each time a customer spends on the card the expiry date is reset to four years.
  • (6) That is a device which, over a longer period of time, has two functions: It serves as the comparator, which allows the comparison of the past with the present, essential for deletion of a gradient; it also sets in motion the reset to zero, so that the bacterium will not be overwhelmed by any one stimulus but can use all of its receptors to optimize its environment.
  • (7) To achieve complete resetting however, that is when the pressure threshold increase equals the total pressure increase, blood pressure needs to be maintained at an elevated level for 48 hours in the rat.
  • (8) This parallels the adaptive changes in the hindquarters of renal hypertensive rats and it is concluded that baroreceptor resetting is a secondary phenomenon related to the structural changes induced in the vessels by the elevated blood pressure.
  • (9) Zones of nonreset due to interference, reset, interpolation and sinus echoes were defined by noting the timing of the first response after A2.
  • (10) Ve accelerated with the duration of the individual slow phase of OKN and was reset by each backward saccade (of the covered mobile eye).
  • (11) Resetting with single extrastimulus was present in 23 cases (group A) and absent in 10 (group B).
  • (12) The time-course of the decay of INa on resetting the membrane potential to various levels after test steps in potential was studied.
  • (13) In her first major policy intervention, she said on Tuesday that Labour needed to reset its relationship with business , adding that Miliband’s divisional rhetoric of “predators and producers” was mistaken.
  • (14) Resetting of the escape rhythm usually followed an exponential curve until stabilisation after about 3 minutes.
  • (15) Type 0 (strong) resetting occurred when respiratory drive was low, type 1 (weak) resetting when drive was high, and a phase singularity when drive was intermediate.
  • (16) After 30 min of hypertension, resetting was only partially (60%) reversed within the 30 min of pressure normalization.
  • (17) The data of the present study, taken together with those obtained previously after 6 hours of hypertension, suggest that during the onset and maintenance of hypertension in rat, acute or rapid resetting of the baroreceptors reaches its maximum in 20 minutes (40%) and remains stable for up to 6 hours, with no apparent change in the baroreceptor gain.
  • (18) Furthermore, the same type of structural adaptation also contributes to the upward resetting of the cardiac, arterial, and renal "barostat" mechanisms, as cardiac and arterial walls become thicker and stiffer, whereas renal preglomerular resistance vessels participate in the upward structural autoregulation.
  • (19) Both kidneys in single-clip-hypertension appear to adapt or reset their sodium excretory behaviour.
  • (20) Autoregulation of RBF was maintained, although reset around the lower flow.

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