What's the difference between steerable and steered?
Steerable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being steered; dirigible.
Example Sentences:
(1) The steerable guide wire enabled the angioscopic catheter to be accurately and safely inserted into the target lesion in all cases.
(2) This was accomplished by use of a new coaxial infusion catheter-steerable guidewire system passed through the superior mesenteric artery and posterior pancreatic arcade.
(3) The transducertip is connected with a handle by a flexible yet steerable shaft.
(4) A steerable brush was described several years ago, but it was somewhat difficult to accurately maneuver, and long-term results were never reported.
(5) The most significant technical problems were lack of steerability and insufficient irrigation, which resulted in poor angiographic images.
(6) However, the introduction of the steerable or guidewire-directed dilation catheter has altered the learning curve.
(7) After identification of the earliest retrograde atrial activation site, a steerable 7F catheter (with a 4-mm-long electrode at the distal tip) was placed within the ventricular cavity ipsilateral to the accessory connection and positioned at the atrioventricular valve annulus directly opposite the earliest point of retrograde atrial activation.
(8) In the remaining four dogs a steerable guide wire was advanced across the thrombus and a catheter was passed over the guide wire and exchanged for a 200 micron core optical fiber.
(9) We present our experience with open-ended guidewire (OEGW) associated with steerable guidewires (SGW) as superselective catheters for intraarterial chemotherapeutic infusion and embolization.
(10) The development of a steerable hysteroscope should enhance the potential for the transcervical approach and the types of devices that can be implanted.
(11) Incomplete studies in approximately 14% of patients were related to failure to achieve these technical details and lack of scope steerability.
(12) A 7 F steerable large tip catheter was used for energy delivery.
(13) Thus: 1) the 3F Doppler coronary catheter is nonobstructing, steerable and safe; 2) there is an excellent correlation of blood flow velocity with volume collections; and 3) the catheter provides a reliable method of determining coronary blood flow velocity and coronary vasodilator reserve.
(14) These 20 consecutive steerable coronary angioplasty procedures included eight single left anterior descending lesions, two double (lesions located in series) left anterior descending lesions, six single right coronary lesions, one double (lesions located in series) right coronary lesion, and three single circumflex lesions.
(15) Of the 90 attempts with the exclusive use of the steerable system, 75 were successful (83%).
(16) With modern materials such as steerable guide wires and low-profile balloon catheters, dilation of crural arteries has become safe.
(17) However, on occasion steerable guidewire placement remains extremely difficult, despite significantly improved means of intracoronary manipulations.
(18) The steerable guiding catheter described here may prove useful for PTCA in cases where a conventional catheter cannot be placed accurately or in cases with multi-vessel coronary disease.
(19) A steerable system was used in 29 patients whereas a fixed guide wire system was used in 38.
(20) We used a guiding catheter, a coronary infusion catheter, and a relatively stiff steerable guide wire to perforate the occlusion.
Steered
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Steer
Example Sentences:
(1) Steroid-treated steers showed a slight decline in synthesis which was significant (P less than 0.05) at week +5 post-implant while amino acid oxidation was significantly lower at weeks +2 (P less than 0.01) and +5 (P less than 0.05) compared with control animals.
(2) The only thing Michael Fabricant could reasonably be vice-chairman of is the steering committee of Nurse Ratched 's ward fete.
(3) Holstein steers gained 11% faster (P less than .005) and consumed 8% less (P less than .025) dry matter per unit gain than the average of Angus and Polled Hereford steers.
(4) "We are probably steering towards Russia turning off its gas provision," he was quoted as saying.
(5) I tried desperately hard not to influence her, but I did steer her away from a baby that I've already bought her for her Christmas present.
(6) A detailed account of the progress of a preschool child learning to steer a powered wheelchair via a mouth-operated joystick is described.
(7) Educated at Imperial College London, he trained at the contractors Freeman Fox, but in 1978 he turned freelance as a transport consultant, setting up his own firm: Steer Davies Gleave.
(8) Flying in Soyuz was “ real teamwork ” she said, adding: “Tim will have no trouble with that.” David Southwood , a senior researcher at Imperial College, and a member of the UK space agency steering board, has known Tim since he joined the European Space Agency in 2009.
(9) Postweaning growth and carcass characters of 110 steers from a complete two-breed diallel of the Devon and Hereford breeds were examined under two environments.
(10) A fired-up Lleyton Hewitt just fell short in his bid to steer Australia to an upset victory in their Davis Cup doubles showdown with the United States.
(11) As a parent himself, he steered a deliberate course on discipline (neither he nor his wife ever smacked their girls) and on external influences - the family did not have a television while the children were young, preferring to read.
(12) A mixture of (1-14C)-labeled free fatty acids (FFA), complexed in bovine plasma, was infused into the abdominal aorta of conscious young steers exposed to thermoneutral or moderately cold conditions for several hours and fed 6 or 22 h before the experiment.
(13) But on Tuesday the White House steered the conversation toward the website.
(14) Previously, Hotel Chocolat has steered clear of raising money through the traditional channels.
(15) These functional specializations of the different steering muscles in mediating different behavioral response components are related to the properties of two parallel visual pathways that are selectively tuned to large-field and small-field motion, respectively.
(16) Motor vehicle occupants may suffer severe cervical airway injuries as the result of impaction with the steering wheel, dashboard, windshield, backseat, and seat belt.
(17) A comparison was made of the effect of providing or denying water to steers during the last 20 h before slaughter on carcase weight, bruising, muscle pH, and during the dressing process on the numbers of rumens from which ingesta was split and the number of heads and tongues condemned because of contamination with ingesta.
(18) In 1987, the Educational Steering Committee for Cancer Care at The Washington Hospital was established to meet this need.
(19) Since 2010, he has worked for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), the wing of the US defense department devoted to funding and developing new technologies, from a self-steering bullet called Exacto to the packet-switching system, Arpanet, that became the internet.
(20) The role of steering wheel design in maxillofacial trauma is discussed and new solutions briefly reviewed.