(n.) A small knife with a thin, keen blade, -- used by surgeons, and in dissecting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clute and Harrison took a scalpel to the flaws of the science fiction we loved, and we loved them for it.
(2) Significant differences between the LR2 and the LR6 were observed in the skin at 2 weeks (P less than .05) at all power settings used, indicating superiority of the smaller scalpel for use in skin incisions.
(3) The authors describe the use of a new contact argon laser scalpel designed specifically for hand-controlled cutting and hemostasis.
(4) The surgeon uses the scalpel rather than the prescription pad, but this fact is deceptive.
(5) After removing the bulk of tissue with the Shaw scalpel, the carbon dioxide laser and dermabrader are used to refine nasal contours.
(6) It was established that the plasma scalpel can be used effectively in hermetic closure of defects in the pulmonary tissue and cleansing of the pleural cavity and operative wound; for arresting diffuse bleeding from the walls of the pleural cavity, the plasma scalpel may be used only in combination with other methods of hemostasis.
(7) The results of the study bear evidence that the use of the thermo-acoustic contact solid-body laser scalpel makes it possible to increase the rate of cutting with minimal injury to the peripheral areas of the hepatic tissue, significantly increases the reliability of hemostasis, produces fine homogeneous coagulation for the whole length, and facilitates a favourable course of the reparative processes.
(8) An easy, rapid, and inexpensive technique for excision of syringomas from eyelids is outlined, using a fine needle as a skin hook and a #11 scalpel blade and leaving superficial wounds for secondary closure.
(9) The results of using the laser scalpel in surgery for echinococcosis of the liver in 68 patients are discussed.
(10) Wound contraction did occur but was less than is historically quoted for scalpel wounds.
(11) Cutaneous scalpel incisions were placed over the dorsum of three minipigs and were then closed by either the laser, sutures, or staples.
(12) Laser scalpel is also useful to extirpate the hemorrhagic tumor with hard consistency.
(13) The results were as follows: (1) The skin autograft takes were excellent following the plasma scalpel excisions, and they healed on essentially the same time scale as similar autografts following steel scalpel excisions, producing scars of similar sizes.
(14) A single digital angiosarcoma was excised by a carbon dioxide laser with small portions of this tumor excised by the scalpel and the high-frequency electrosurgical knife.
(15) An analysis of the article "Clinico-morphological estimation of regenerative processes of the stomach wound made by laser scalpel" by prof. A. I. Nechaĭ et al.
(16) Then she grabbed my hand, held it up for everyone to see, and paraded me around the office to show everyone my hilarious bleeding finger, which was now turning blue, and saying, "Typical student, can't even use a scalpel!"
(17) The incision edges from these two lasers were histologically smooth and comparable to a scalpel incision.
(18) We used a plasma scalpel to excise experimental full-thickness burns in 12 pigs, followed by immediate skin autografting.
(19) It was found that tumor resection using the laser scalpel and laser irradiation of the field after tumor resection were effective in preventing recurrence.
(20) The effectiveness of removing endothelium by rubbing it against filter paper or scraping it with a scalpel was demonstrated by scanning electron microscopy and en face examination after silver staining.
Surgery
Definition:
(n.) The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment.
(n.) A surgeon's operating room or laboratory.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seventeen patients (Group 1) had had no previous surgery, while 13 (Group 2) had had multiple previous operations.
(2) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
(3) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
(4) The sequential histopathologic alterations in femorotibial joints of partial meniscectomized male and female guinea pigs were evaluated at 1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 weeks post-surgery.
(5) However, low dose heparin prophylasix is relatively ineffective in patients having hip surgery, and has not been evaluated in patients having other types of orthopaidic surgery.
(6) All patients were discharged home from two to six days after surgery (mean (SD) 3.7 (1.2) days).
(7) Patients had improved sitting balance and endurance after surgery.
(8) This mode of treatment remains appropriate for cases where antibiotics are ineffective and surgery impracticable.
(9) Breast conserving surgery in patients with small tumors combined with radiation therapy has gained wide popularity due to better cosmetic results without significant changes in survival.
(10) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
(11) Gastro-intestinal surgery is only indicated if haemorrhage persists after a period of observation.
(12) An additional 1.3% of the persons studied needed this operation, but were unfit for surgery.
(13) After a review of the technical development and application of staplers from their introduction to the present day, the indications to the use of this instrument in all gastroenterological areas from the oesophagus to the rectum as well as in chest, gynaecological and urological surgery specified.
(14) In hypertensive patients, intravenous nicardipine in doses of 1 to 2 micrograms.kg-1.min-1 produced normotensive state during surgery accompanied by significant diuresis.
(15) On embryonic day 3.5 (E3.5), 1 day after surgery, there is a 42% average increase in volume of the polyganglia compared with the corresponding DRG on the unoperated side.
(16) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
(17) For this purpose, five queries may contribute to programming the most suitable surgery.
(18) Eighty four colorectal cancer patients who underwent presumably curative surgery were considered as candidates for control recurrence study.
(19) It is felt that otologic surgery should be done before the pinna reconstruction as it is very important to try and introduce sound into these children at an early age.
(20) It was considered worthwhile to report this case due to the problems which arose concerning the choice of a thoracic rather than abdominal route owing to the impossibility of associating cardiomyotomy with anti-reflux plastica surgery because of the reduced dimensions of the stomach.