What's the difference between snaring and snoring?
Snaring
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snare
Example Sentences:
(1) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.
(2) The effects of coronary reperfusion on the uptake of digoxin by ischemic myocardium were studied in 17 open chest dogs undergoing anterior wall infarction produced by snaring confluent branches of the left coronary arterial system.
(3) Was Snare genuine, was the painting stolen, was he making it up?
(4) Different grades of stenoses were created by snares.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Laura Cumming beside Velázquez’s Portrait of a Man at Apsley House, where John Snare would also have seen it.
(6) With the venae cavae snared, temperatures in the right atrial septum were not significantly different from those measured simultaneously in the right ventricle.
(7) In this artificial vessel (but not in a glass model) a snare stenosis caused reduction in flow when outflow pressure was lowered.
(8) Atrial preservation was ensured by combining systemic (24 degrees C) and topical hypothermia with snared double caval cannulation during arrest.
(9) In 2 patients the tumor was excised by snare, in 4 patients a surgical resection was carried out.
(10) So we looped them into the reel-to-reels and crowded round the speakers to hear what their album sounded like – but all we got was the clang of a snare drum.
(11) Our method of ER is endoscopic double snare polypectomy.
(12) But the experience of Royal Mail, which underwent a similar regime change some years ago, provides a chilling precedent of what aggressive regulators can do, and also of the snare that European competition laws potentially lay for public services when they are transformed into players in a market.
(13) Sky's snaring of Lumsden, holder of the most powerful job in British television comedy, and its move into a genre which is traditionally expensive and risky, follows bids by Sky1's director of programmes, Stuart Murphy, a former controller of BBC3, for established hits and talent from its terrestrial rivals.
(14) Occluding snares at T-13 limited the effect of raised pressure on the brain.
(15) Snare describes the portrait quite clearly: the young Charles with his large liquid eyes and pale face, appearing in three-quarter view without rigidity or outline, the painting as airy as mist (and the prince too young for Van Dyck, who only portrayed Charles in his 30s).
(16) After chest closure the common carotid arteries were exposed and immediately ligated or else catheter snares were installed to induce ischemia at a later date.
(17) A snare placed around the IA was used to unilaterally decrease renal arterial perfusion pressure (RAPP) for the experimental kidney.
(18) Mean aortic pressure was kept nearly constant during the interventions by manipulation of an aortic clamp or a vena caval snare.
(19) Graded reductions in uterine and umbilical blood flows were achieved by a hypogastric artery snare and a balloon cuff encircling the umbilical cord.
(20) During MVR with complete chordal preservation, snares were placed around the anterior and posterior papillary muscles.
Snoring
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snore
(n.) The act of respiring through the open mouth so that the currents of inspired and expired air cause a vibration of the uvula and soft palate, thus giving rise to a sound more or less harsh. It is usually unvoluntary, but may be produced voluntarily.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aside from snoring, excessive daytime sleepiness was on average often the first symptom and began at a mean age of 36 years.
(2) The footballer said the noise of the engine was too loud to hear if Cameron snored but his night "wasn't the best".
(3) Epidemiological criteria for a causal association between snoring and vascular disease have not been satisfied.
(4) Patients who had nasal polypectomy as part of their nasal surgery obtained the greatest snoring relief.
(5) Diclofenac sodium suppositories 150-200 mg day-1 were compared with placebo in a double-blind study during the first 3 days after uvulopalatopharyngoplasty in 40 patients with habitual snoring or obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome.
(6) Alcohol consumption, estimated by questionnaire and gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase was unrelated to a history of snoring.
(7) We compared self- and spouse reports of snoring and other symptoms of sleep apnea syndrome ascertained from married couples in a community-based survey.
(8) Snoring history was obtained from 326 patients and 345 controls.
(9) Snoring occurs in at least 20% of the population; 50% of the 50 year old male snore.
(10) When you breathe, air makes them vibrate against each other, which is what makes the characteristic snoring noise," she says.
(11) Emily Marbach In desperation one night I asked my husband, who snores like a train, to sleep in our repeatedly waking baby's room ...
(12) The demented patients were reported to snore twice as frequently as the control subjects (P less than 0.05).
(13) Snoring usually is trivial and unimportant, but it can turn into a social or medical problem.
(14) To select heavy-snoring subjects for a treatment protocol, volunteers were screened for one night, breathing air the first half and oxygen the second half of the night.
(15) Generally, associations between snoring and sleep apnea were independent of age and sex.
(16) This hypothesis is mainly based on epidemiological studies showing a statistically significant association between snoring and arterial hypertension; this association remains true even after data correction to take into account the increased frequency of snoring with age and overweight.
(17) The effects of prolonged snoring on alveolar ventilation and systemic pressure(s) suggest that this snoring has physiopathological implications on maternal cardio-respiratory reserve and indirectly upon the fetus, especially as there are recordable changes in fetal heart rate and also a change in the acid-base status of the fetus.
(18) 4) Pharyngeal size during snoring is probably larger in HS than in OSA patients.
(19) My study indicates that snoring may be a risk factor for ischemic stroke, possibly because of the higher prevalence of an obstructive sleep apnea syndrome among snorers than nonsnorers.
(20) The third and fourth groups were formed by 100 snoring and 100 non-snoring patients without risk factors.