What's the difference between scan and scrutiny?

Scan


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
  • (2) By electrophoresis and scanning densitometry, actin was found to constitute about 4% to 6% of the total cellular protein in the human corneal epithelium.
  • (3) Clinical surveillance, repeated laboratory tests, conventional radiology, and especially ultrasonography and CT scan all contributed to the preoperative diagnosis.
  • (4) Tumor shrinkage was documented by A-scan ultrasonography in all but one patient.
  • (5) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
  • (6) The method is based on two-dimensional scanning photon absorptiometry on the distal part of the forearm.
  • (7) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
  • (8) CT scan revealed a small calcified mass in the right maxillary sinus.
  • (9) Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that these blebs were devoid of organelles and microvilli; scanning electron microscopy revealed that the blebs were highly wrinkled and more numerous than were the projections observed in tissue from animals treated with testosterone alone, or in tissue from unoperated controls.
  • (10) We conclude that inflammatory lesions at these sites are not uncommon and that CT scans are diagnostic in the great majority.
  • (11) The skull films and CT scans of 1383 patients with acute head injury transferred to a regional neurosurgical unit were reviewed.
  • (12) For consistent identification of the normal pancreas, preliminary longitudinal scanning at, or near, the mid-line and subsequent oblique scanning in the long axis are necessary prerequisites in delineating the anatomic outline of the pancreas.
  • (13) In scanning of more than 20 Hz frequency, the spectral pattern also reflected the characteristics of the cone system.
  • (14) 3 patients had complete disappearance of the symptoms but did not have a computed tomography scanning control, 3 patients had clinical and CT recovery.
  • (15) The remaining 16 patients were explored for persistent symptoms, an abnormality on GI series, or a mass lesion on CT scan.
  • (16) After permeabilization, with attendant partial extraction, the preparation can be fixed, then viewed by either deep-etch replication, or by high-resolution scanning electron microscopy, with structure of interest revealed in deep view.
  • (17) A television camera scans the spread through microscope optics; computer and special purpose electronics process the video signals to generate run length histograms.
  • (18) Subgingival plaque was sampled and the presence or absence of the above mentioned bacteria assessed with BANA reagent cards (Perio Scan).
  • (19) Ventilation-perfusion lung scans and contrast ascending venography were performed on the sixth to eighth postoperative days.
  • (20) It is often necessary to estimate the dose of radiation to a fetus from a series of CT scans.

Scrutiny


Definition:

  • (n.) Close examination; minute inspection; critical observation.
  • (n.) An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.
  • (n.) A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written.
  • (n.) An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll.
  • (v. t.) To scrutinize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That is why you will be held relentlessly to account for those choices; why what you said in February invites forensic scrutiny.
  • (2) A role for cAMP in the process of LHRH release was suggested several years ago, but only recently has the validity of this notion come under close scrutiny.
  • (3) Even so, the controversy over the last assessment, and the political polarisation in America and other countries around climate science and the need for climate action, have created an additional layer of scrutiny around next week's report.
  • (4) Recommendations are made suggesting closer scrutiny of this region of the spine.
  • (5) This proposal is a purely partisan move that will backfire on the government disastrously.” The Green party accused Osborne of making “efforts to limit the democratic scrutiny of his austerity agenda”.
  • (6) Trump and Hillary Clinton’s dismal honesty ratings, he says, show scrutiny is working.
  • (7) Lord Thomson of Monifieth , the now deceased chairman of the political honours scrutiny committee, was a former Labour minister but then sat in the Lords as a Liberal Democrat peer.
  • (8) The surgical modality used was the modified Widman flap operation and the pockets under scrutiny were those with an initial probing depth of 4-6 mm.
  • (9) Over the last few days a former member of parliament's intelligence and security committee, Lord King, a former director of GCHQ, Sir David Omand, and a former director general of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington, have questioned whether the agencies need to be more transparent and accept more rigorous scrutiny of their work.
  • (10) "There is understandable scrutiny on how we are doing things and that should act as a conduit to look at labor issues across the region.
  • (11) In most developing countries abortion is illegal, and scrutiny of hospital records on complication (a 49% rate in a study in Latin America and 46% hospitalization) is a source.
  • (12) There is all sorts of opacity which makes it easy for an employee to suffer retaliation.” Despite recent reforms to improve transparency and accountability, the organisation remains impervious to public scrutiny, with no established mechanism for freedom of information – a right which more than 100 governments around the world have enshrined in law, and is openly advocated by UN bodies such as Unesco.
  • (13) Those seeking to stop the project contend that the $997m joint venture, signed in May 2010, did not undergo parliamentary scrutiny because it was concluded under the previous military regime.
  • (14) It is essential, therefore, to submit one's loyalties and value judgments to constant scrutiny and questioning and to those theological criteria that make abortion also (though not only) a theological question, a task not without its risks.
  • (15) But the damage from the whole affair and inevitable scrutiny of her successor might just mean they take a more even-handed approach to the job.
  • (16) WikiLeaks has demanded that Google and Facebook reveal which of their users are under similar scrutiny.
  • (17) Reacting to the announcement of the government review, Lady Smith of Basildon, the shadow leader of the Lords, said: “This is a massive over-reaction from a prime minister that clearly resents any challenge or meaningful scrutiny.
  • (18) But when they show up in Manchester at lunchtime on Tuesday to take part in a Conservative conference fringe meeting entitled Challenges for the EU in 2010, they may find themselves under the kind of scrutiny they rarely face at home.
  • (19) On the back of the disclosures, President Obama ordered a White House review into data surveillance , a number of congressional reform bills have been introduced, and protections have begun to be put in place to safeguard privacy for foreign leaders and to increase scrutiny over the NSA’s mass data collection.
  • (20) Alternative taxonomic structures require careful scrutiny and comparison to establish whether one structure will meet the needs of the profession or whether multiple structures of nursing diagnoses relative to outcomes are required.