What's the difference between toise and torse?

Toise


Definition:

  • (a.) An old measure of length in France, containing six French feet, or about 6.3946 French feet.

Example Sentences:

Torse


Definition:

  • (n.) A wreath.
  • (n.) A developable surface. See under Developable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) the facies superior trochleae tali) is a torse, the medial flanking facet (corresponding to the medial articular facet of the trochlea, i.e.
  • (2) A torsed, incarcerated Meckel's diverticulum was discovered and resected.
  • (3) Observation in these same children may allow a torsed edematous ovary to convert to a nonviable necrotic tissue necessitating oophorectomy.
  • (4) The sequential involvement of each testis with a nine month interval between respective torsions provides a unique example where each testis serves, sequentially, as a normal control for the torsed contralateral appendage.
  • (5) The remaining 2 patients had biopsy of the contralateral testis only because the torsed testis was infarcted completely.
  • (6) In 18 boys biopsy of the torsed testis only was performed, while in another 18 bilateral testis biopsy was obtained.
  • (7) This form of therapy may be applicable to all "torsed testes" regardless of viability.
  • (8) In adolescent boys the mean number of late spermatids also was diminished severely in the contralateral and torsed testes.
  • (9) All painful scrotal masses should be considered possible torsed testes, unless obvious predisposing factors exclude its diagnosis.

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