What's the difference between sheath and sleeve?

Sheath


Definition:

  • (n.) A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard.
  • (n.) Any sheathlike covering, organ, or part.
  • (n.) The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a stem or branch, as in grasses.
  • (n.) One of the elytra of an insect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
  • (2) Electron microscopic observations of the masseter nerve in the aged cats revealed a disruption of the myelin sheaths and a pronounced increase in collagen fibers in the endoneurium and perineurium.
  • (3) The authors propose three regular procedures with which they are experienced: repair with a large retromuscular nonabsorbable synthetic tulle prosthesis for extensive epigastric eventrations, fillup aponeuroplasty using the sheath of the rectus abdominis associated with a premuscular patch in case of diastasis or of multiple superimposed orifices and suture associated with a small retromuscular auxiliary patch to treat small incisional hernias.
  • (4) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.
  • (5) Thirteen soft tissue sarcomas with ultrastructural evidence of nerve sheath differentiation were investigated by immunohistochemistry.
  • (6) This cell population gives rise initially to oligodendrocytes and then to type-2 astrocytes, both of which apparently collaborate in sheathing axons in the CNS.
  • (7) Rabbit antirat T-cell serum (ALS(T)) reacted selectively with the surfaces of lymphocytes in the paracortex of lymph node and in the periarteriolar sheath of spleen, and with thymocytes.
  • (8) After properly fixing the vas deferens with a ring clamp, the surgeon pierces the scrotal skin, vas sheath, and vas deferens in the midline with a curved dissecting clamp held at a 45 degree angle from horizontal.
  • (9) We immunohistochemically examined the expression of Schwann cell-related markers, nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor, S-100 alpha- and beta-proteins, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), and galactocerebroside (gal C) in 5 malignant schwannomas, 21 benign peripheral nerve sheath tumors, and 4 apparently normal sural nerves.
  • (10) The transversalis fascia of the floor of the femoral canal turns down to form the medial wall of the venous compartment of the femoral sheath, and has the support of the curved edge of the lacunar ligament which effectively bars the femoral canal from entering the thigh.
  • (11) Unique domains of the retinal interphotoreceptor matrix (IPM), termed cone matrix sheaths, are composed largely of chondroitin 6-sulfate proteoglycan in most higher mammalian species.
  • (12) 2ME treatment caused partial solubilization of the sheaths (45% as determined by amino acid analysis), which could be further improved by combining 2ME with SDS.
  • (13) The 6.8F ultrasound balloon catheter was placed percutaneously in the right femoral artery through a 9F sheath.
  • (14) The isolated outer sheath was observed as a triple-layered, closed vesicle carrying a polygonal array by electron microscopy.
  • (15) These data show that the 515 nm absorbance change is not limited to small closed vesicles like grana, but in the presence of suitable electron donors single lamellae of bundle sheath chloroplasts can also be active.
  • (16) An outer sheath was isolated from Treponema phagedenis biotype Reiter by our previously developed method (Masuda, K., and Kawata, T. 1982.
  • (17) Seven tumours were predominantly of blue and spindle-cell, fascicular type, resembling malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour and at times monophasic synovial sarcoma.
  • (18) Several additional groups of muscle cells of more limited mass and spatial distribution include the vulval muscles of hermaphrodites, the male sex muscles, the anal-intestinal muscles, and the gonadal sheath of the hermaphrodite.
  • (19) The notochord, which is composed of a stack of flat cells surrounded by a connective tissue sheath, elongates dramatically and begins straightening between stages 21 and 25.
  • (20) Under fluoroscopic control a lower polar calix was punctured with 18 G sheathed needle; a guide wire was introduced through the sheet.

Sleeve


Definition:

  • (n.) See Sleave, untwisted thread.
  • (n.) The part of a garment which covers the arm; as, the sleeve of a coat or a gown.
  • (n.) A narrow channel of water.
  • (n.) A tubular part made to cover, sustain, or steady another part, or to form a connection between two parts.
  • (n.) A long bushing or thimble, as in the nave of a wheel.
  • (n.) A short piece of pipe used for covering a joint, or forming a joint between the ends of two other pipes.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with sleeves; to put sleeves into; as, to sleeve a coat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We performed carinal reconstruction in eight patients, sleeve pneumonectomy in eight patients and wedge pneumonectomy in one.
  • (2) The parameters of LES relaxation for both wet and dry swallows were similar using either a carefully placed single recording orifice or a Dent sleeve.
  • (3) Lobectomy with sleeve excision of the bronchus and the pulmonary artery was done in 3 patients, of which one had bilobectomy plus one segmentectomy with segmental bronchoplasty, lobectomy with wedge excision of the bronchus and the pulmonary artery in 2, lobectomy with wedge excision of the bronchus and sleeve excision of the pulmonary artery in 2, lobectomy with sleeve excision of the bronchus and wedge excision of the pulmonary artery in 1, and regular lobectomy with sleeve excision of the pulmonary artery in 1.
  • (4) This is best accomplished with a continuous stream of normal saline from a 1-I bag which is attached to an intravenous line with a 16-gauge Teflon catheter placement sleeve affixed to the distal end of the line.
  • (5) Distention of the antral sleeve by hydrostatic pressure (3-25cm H2O) caused stepwise and significant increase in gastrin release that was reversible.
  • (6) Girls loved him, his flouncy lace sleeves, tight trousers, big hats, curly hair.
  • (7) Transperineurial arterioles are defined as any arteriole that is confined to a perineurial cell compartment, which would include all arterioles within the perineurium proper or within perineurial sleeves in the epi- or endoneurium.
  • (8) When right upper sleeve lobectomy was performed, only limited peribronchial inflammation related to PDT procedure was detected indicating only slight extrabronchial influence of PDT.
  • (9) They believed the film strips strapped around his forearm, which they called a sleeve, would stimulate his muscles to make those movements a physical reality.
  • (10) A molded rubber sleeve connecting the prosthesis and the thigh was found to enhance this effect so that suction suspension occurred during the entire swing phase.
  • (11) A sleeve resection of the involved trachea with reanastomosis was successful, and the patient is alive and well with no evidence of tumor four years later.
  • (12) Sleeve resection is the ideal form of excisional therapy for benign endobronchial tumors, bronchostenosis, tumors of low-grade malignant potential, and for selected cases of carcinoma.
  • (13) Between the submitochondrial sleeve and the axoneme is a space, the cytoplasmic canal, that is open to the exterior posteriorly.
  • (14) Since 1975 200 tracheal sleeve resections for iatrogenic tracheal and subglottic laryngeal stenoses have been performed in our institution.
  • (15) Conservative surgery by sleeve resection without pulmonary resection was performed.
  • (16) In 1976 Dent (Gastroenterology 71: 263-267) introduced a sleeve-catheter device for obtaining continuous recording of lower esophageal sphincter pressure.
  • (17) As a rule, conventional myelography showed only minor root-sleeve deformity.
  • (18) Entomophthoromycosis was diagnosed by finding wide eosinophilic sleeves intimately surrounding thin-walled hyphae.
  • (19) Bonus points, of course, for anyone wearing gloves and short-sleeved shirt.
  • (20) All this reached its apogee in 1987, with the sleeve art for Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason .