(n.) The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.
(n.) A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.
(n.) A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character /, often used to denote such a division.
(n.) A distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines, or of a people considered as distinct.
(n.) One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preemption laws.
(n.) The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point.
(n.) A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign /.
(n.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.
(n.) The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile.
Example Sentences:
(1) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
(2) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
(3) Serial sections of mouse foetal liver, during the 9th and 16th days of gestation, were studied.
(4) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(5) The diagnosis of anaplastic thyroid cancer, though suspected, was deferred for permanent sections in all cases.
(6) Limited biopsic retroperitoneal lymphnode dissection subsequently extended following the result of the frozen section histology.
(7) Serially sectioned rabbit foliate taste buds were examined with high voltage electron microscopy (HVEM) and computer-assisted, three-dimensional reconstruction.
(8) Lung sections of rats exposed to quartz particles were significantly different.
(9) There was however no difference in the cross-sectional studies and no significant deleterious effect detected of tobacco use on forearm bone mineral content.
(10) When the posterior capsule was sectioned, no significant changes were noted in the severity of the sag or the rotation.
(11) A similar interference colour appeared after incubating sections of rat skin with chymase.
(12) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
(13) The enzyme was quantitated by incubation of 16-micron-thick brain sections with 0.07-2 nM of the converting enzyme inhibitor 125I-351A and comparison to 125I-standards.
(14) At day 7 MD occupy about 14% area of posterior retina in transverse sections in Campbell rats versus 7% in normal animals.
(15) Using serial section electron microscopic reconstructions as a reference, we have chosen as our standard procedure a method that maximizes both the preservation of the cytoskeleton and the proportion of cells staining, while minimizing the degree of nonspecific staining.
(16) Pitlike surface structures seen in negatively stained whole cells and thin sections were correlated with periodically spaced perforations of the rigid sacculus.
(17) Females were killed at various times after the onset of mating or artificial insemination, oviducts were fixed and sectioned serially, and spermatozoa were counted individually as to their location in the oviduct.
(18) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
(19) Using a monoclonal antibody against dopamine and a rabbit antiserum against serotonin, 5-methoxytryptamine or tryptamine, we were able to achieve the simultaneous localization of two amines in glutaraldehyde-fixed sections of rat dorsal raphe nuclei.
(20) Chromatolysis and swelling of the cell bodies of cut axons are more prolonged than after optic nerve section and resolve in more central regions of retina first.
Suction
Definition:
(v. t.) The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(2) It is suitable either for brief sampling of AP durations when recording with microelectrodes, which may impale cells intermittently, or for continuous monitoring, as with suction electrodes on intact beating hearts in situ.
(3) During suction a flow of cold, dry room air replaces the warm, moist cavity air, causing cooling both directly and by vaporization of water.
(4) Suction mammaplasty can be used as a sole technique in congenital asymmetry or in post-reduction enlargement or asymmetry.
(5) If transportation is unduly delayed, immediate linear incision and suction may be of value.
(6) Suction blisters were raised on psoriatic lesions and normal appearing skin.
(7) The vocalight lights up a variable number of light-emitting diodes depending upon the loudness of sounds received at a hydrophone within the suction cup.
(8) Anesthetized, intubated kittens were subjected to one of two procedures: (1) insertion of a suction catheter to a predetermined distance and withdrawal with or without the application of suction or (2) insertion of the catheter until resistance was met and withdrawal with or without the application of suction.
(9) Survival analysis demonstrated that the probability of survival without developing nosocomial pneumonia was greater among closed-suctioning patients vs. open-suctioned patients (p less than .03).
(10) In vitro experiments with hydrogel discs of 56%, 65%, 69.5% and 75% water content were subjected to swelling pressures ranging from 55 to 150 mmHg in a suction chamber.
(11) One significant concern involves the rotary vane aspirators used to provide the suction required for the procedure.
(12) Concomitant bilateral myringotomy with suction aspiration of the middle ear contents also should be done, with or without placement of tympanostomy tubes at the discretion of the surgeon.
(13) Having made the above observations and comparison, it must be concluded that the suction method is clearly the more advantageous.
(14) Thirty four per cent of the patients had no peritoneal drainage and an abscess rate of 1.8%, 18% had only closed suction drainage and 0% abscess rate, 15% had only open sump drainage and a rate of 8.3%, 14% had only open Penrose drainage with a rate of 8.7%, and 19% had a combination of both open Penrose and sump drainage with a rate of 22.5%.
(15) These complications could not be seen when extracardiac suction blood was eliminated or filtrated.
(16) The time course of appearance and the dynamic changes of immunocompetent cells were assessed in human skin following sterile suction blister would healing.
(17) Active filling (-10 mmHg) inside inner blood sacs was produced by the suction effects of the outer sacs attached to a moving actuator.
(18) The PTB-suction prosthesis has been studied by a roentgenological technique.
(19) Whole-cell ICa free of other overlapping currents was recorded with a suction pipette.
(20) Baroreflex responsiveness was determined from the R-R interval responses to neck suction and pressure (repeated trials of 5-s stimuli of -20, -40, and 35 mmHg).