What's the difference between traumatic and vulnerary?

Traumatic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to wounds; applied to wounds.
  • (a.) Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary.
  • (a.) Produced by wounds; as, traumatic tetanus.
  • (n.) A traumatic medicine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Angiopathic and traumatic influences conditioned by metabolism, apart from local peculiarities are taken into consideration.
  • (2) Factors associated with higher incidence of rejection included loose sutures, traumatic wound dehiscence, and grafts larger than 8.5 mm.
  • (3) Splenectomy had been performed for traumatic, hematologic or immunologic reasons.
  • (4) Change is traumatic for any organisation and the FSA is no different.
  • (5) The authors describe a new technique for evaluating traumatic conditions to the elbow: the radial head-capitellum view.
  • (6) A series of 170 patients with non-traumatic coma seen over a 16-month period is reported.
  • (7) Both the use of analgesics and the frequency of headache showed a significant increase for patients with post-traumatic headache when compared with a "control group" of 41 patients with unchanged headache and when compared with all patients with headache before the trauma.
  • (8) The authors are of the opinion that the processes occurring in the neighbourhood of the traumatic skin wound can be influenced and that regeneration can be regulated.
  • (9) A traumatic factor in the aetiology of the AVM was also discussed, since the patient had had two preceding episodes of traffic accidents with cranial and lumbar injury.
  • (10) Acute hematogenous osteomyelitis was diagnosed in 111 children, chronic hematogenous osteomyelitis in 11 children, traumatic and postoperative osteomyelitis in 10 children.
  • (11) Since alterations in insulin responsiveness, especially insulin resistance, have been related to the metabolic sequelae of shock, the present study evaluated insulin responsiveness in traumatic shock.
  • (12) In the years 1971 to 1973 the therapeutic effect of Trasylol (aprotinin isolated from bovine organs) in the treatment of the traumatic shock was investigated in a controlled field study at 31 hospitals in northern Germany.
  • (13) Five (15%) had a history of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) which coincided with the pain onset.
  • (14) In contrast, the control traumatic cases showed an incomplete recovery and a persistent residual neurological deficit.
  • (15) A new centrifugal pump (Sarns), originally designed for ventricular assist, was successfully used in two patients during repair of traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta.
  • (16) Exacerbation of inflammation due to repeated traumatization of the oesophagus wall was accompanied by proliferation of the epithelial layers.
  • (17) The author maintains that the osteoma of the brachial muscle as well as post-traumatic periarticular calcifications, occur in the muscle mass or in the tendon that prolongs it, or in the articular capsule, as a result of surgical treament and post-operative immobilization, and only exceptionally following orthopaedic treatment of traumatic lesions.
  • (18) Four hours after infusion, the animals displayed a clinical and pathological pattern which closely resembled post-traumatic acute respiratory distress syndrome, including hypoxia, hypocarbia, thrombocytopenia, increased pulmonary capillary permeability to albumin, interstitial edema, hypertrophy of alveolar lining cells, and intra-alveolar hemorrhage.
  • (19) The degree of post-traumatic osteoarthritis was directly related to the duration of follow-up.
  • (20) Aetiological factors were: chronic alcoholism (31%), vascular diseases (17%), tumours (12%), traumatic brain lesions (8,5%), toxic metabolic lesions (6%) and other factors (6%).

Vulnerary


Definition:

  • (a.) Useful in healing wounds; adapted to the cure of external injuries; as, vulnerary plants or potions.
  • (n.) A vulnerary remedy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Macroscopically, findings up to day 7 in the transplanted group revealed slightly stronger changes with respect to vulnerary fossae, edema-like swelling ruber than those in the control group and slight changes at 14 and then later.
  • (2) In order to macroscopically and pathohistologically study the healing process of vulnerary regions after resection of transplanted tumors, we transplanted VX2 carcinoma into the tongue of rabbits and conducted partial resection of the tongue which had taken the carcinoma in the early stage.
  • (3) The results confirmed that the healing process of the vulnerary region in cases of partial resection of the tongue transplanted tumor was slightly delayed even in carcinoma at an early stage, and quite term effects remained.
  • (4) The vulnerary effects of EGF were evaluated in a model of wound repair, the polyvinyl alcohol sponge implanted subcutaneously in rats.
  • (5) Pathohistologically, the transplanted group showed delayed regeneration of vulnerary mucopithelium, strong inflammatory cellular infiltration, strong atrophy and disappearance of myofieber, and irregular running of myofiber bundle.
  • (6) The results of this small, descriptive study suggest rPDGF-BB is a potent vulnerary agent for accelerating soft-tissue repair, warranting further study.
  • (7) Thus, the vulnerary effects of PDGF-BB were transient and fully reversible in both wound healing models.

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