(n.) A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen or the like, introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to form an issue; also, the issue so formed.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, the prevalence of postoperative complications was higher with the seton procedure (P < .001).
(2) More liberal use of the seton in the treatment of horseshoe abscesses and fistulas is advocated.
(3) The seton, with supplemental agents, maintained the intraocular pressure (IOP) within a therapeutic range for 6 months, until the time of death from cardiac complications.
(4) Primary healing, after removal of the seton, occurred in 25 of the 32 patients (78 per cent).
(5) Twenty-one patients with high transsphincteric fistulas treated by the seton technique were re-examined after two to 14 years.
(6) One patient developed a leak from the pouch necessitating loop ileostomy (J) and one patient had a low pouch vaginal fistula successfully treated by a seton (W).
(7) Hobbs is the dean of the Seton Hall Law School in Newark, New Jersey.
(8) This result is inferior to those quoted in the literature with the use of other types of setons, and especially to the results of Dr. Antonio Mendez who used a similar implant.
(9) The surgical management of complex fistula-in-ano can be difficult, and often requires a seton suture or a colostomy.
(10) For this reason such high fistulae should be progressively laid open in staged procedures, after encircling the sphincters for some weeks with a seton.
(11) We use a common office implement, the rubber band ligator, to manage the seton in an outpatient setting.
(12) We compared the effect of seton (White pump shunt) surgery (16 eyes) with that of trabeculectomy and 5-fluorouracil (31 eyes) in treating 38 Asian patients with medically uncontrollable neovascular glaucoma.
(13) Seton fistulotomy with counter drainage has become the authors' operative procedure of choice for horseshoe abscess fistula.
(14) Over an 8-year period five patients with suprasphincteric fistula and two with extraspincteric fistula a primary transsphincteric track were treated with fistulotomy, using delayed seton technique.
(15) Minor incontinence developed in 13 patients (54 per cent) undergoing two-stage fistulotomy and seven patients (54 per cent) treated with a cutting seton.
(16) High fistulas should be treated with seton drainage to limit recurrent suppuration and preserve sphincter function.
(17) We find that the use of the seton after partial fistulotomy for complicated anal fistulas reduces the rate of incontinence caused by sphincteric transection and has a very low recurrence rate.
(18) This qualified success rate is far below rates reported for other setons.
(19) The functional results in transsphincteric and suprasphincteric fistulas, which are usually considered at higher risk for postoperative incontinence, were better in the anal manometry group, due to greater use of the seton.
(20) The Molteno long tube seton was used in 12 eyes with glaucoma.
Sexton
Definition:
(n.) An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc., belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The gap would have been closer had Sexton not missed those consecutive kicks but the fly-half was back on track in the 61st minute and Ireland had passed their Welsh target with O’Brien about to reach out for his second try that the replacement fly-half Ian Madigan converted.
(2) Richard Sexton, director of business development at surveyor e.surv , said the CML figures masked the true picture of what was happening to the housing market nationwide: "It is bad news that overall house purchase lending was so weak in July, but the good news is that it has not turned out to be a UK-wide phenomenon.
(3) Sexton converted for 17-3 after 25 minutes, which could have been worse had Hogg not performed his second try-saving act before being at the heart of the Scottish try.
(4) He explains in detail how opportunities came about in his early days at Fulham and Chelsea, name-checks everyone who has influenced his coaching career, from Dave Sexton through to Carlo Ancelotti, the Real Madrid manager who is sitting alongside him at the Spanish club's training ground, and stresses over and again the importance of learning.
(5) Richard Sexton, a director at e.surv, said: “This is a trend which started at the end of last year and has continued into 2017.
(6) Sam Sexton Kenilworth, Warwickshire • George Monbiot ( Comment , 9 September) paints a sunny picture of a nation united in the struggle to free itself from foreign domination, ready to emerge on to the level playing fields of independence.
(7) Richard Sexton, director of e.surv, said the first-time buyer market was "alive and kicking again" and confidence was returning to the housing market.
(8) Commenting on the BBA figures, Richard Sexton director of chartered surveyors e.surv, said: “Borrowers finally have more money in their pockets as inflation remains limited and wages are experiencing a tangible rise.
(9) In the Australian on Monday, Michael Sexton, a legal academic and New South Wales solicitor general, also called for the changes to go ahead.
(10) "Wilf McGuinness, Frank O'Farrell and Dave Sexton never managed it and Tommy Docherty took us into Division Two before finding the magic formula.
(11) Richard Sexton, business development director at chartered surveyors e.surv, said: "The market is still very delicate at the moment.
(12) History shows Andrew Sexton Gray to have been a founder of Australian ophthalmology.
(13) In her poem "Rapunzel," Anne Sexton maps out a model of lesbian etiology that at once parodies the model proposed by Freud and significantly amends it.
(14) "In February 2013, immediately after the revelations about horse meat, total supermarket organic sales increased to their highest level in nine months, indicating a growing desire among consumers for food that they can trust," Sexton said.
(15) Sexton says, perfectly accurately, that FLS has been like a "course of steroids" for the mortgage market.
(16) She said something like, "Anne Sexton is dead – she's done it too," and some floor of some world seemed to fall away from under us, and keep falling and falling.
(17) The female pre-Oedipal phase is crucially at stake in such a comparison, as Sexton's account suggests that the pleasures of the pre-Oedipal mother-daughter dyad are dangerously strong for the girl child, and seem to be the force that compels the majority of girls into the rechanneling of libidinal desire from the mother to the father.
(18) Literary editor David Sexton will also contribute to the TV column.
(19) Sexton added the conversion – off the left upright, further suggesting that what luck there was might be going Ireland’s way – and the holders were seven points up in six minutes and 10 after 10 minutes – the Welsh differential halved – when Sexton landed his first penalty.
(20) Richard Sexton, business development director of e.surv , said: "With the economy in peril from every angle, lenders are playing it safe and training their sights on wealthier borrowers.