Sentences with phrase «as scalpel»

Images in the high - resolution display were almost as sharp as the scalpel I used to make an incision on my patient.

E-discovery is as fundamental to legal process as a scalpel is to a surgeon - but it isn't currently treated as such.

In the Berkeley approach, the optimal combination of station records isn't really that important, as they are all treated as different segments for the purposes of creating a regional estimate (as the scalpel will cut stations at any documented station move).

This procedure, referred to as the scalpel, was completely automated to reduce human bias.

It was about using his brush as a scalpel to reveal the immaterial force of the material world.

Gliding as smoothly as a scalpel in a confident surgeon's hand, this tale proves that Gerritsen... has morphed into a...

Renault's Clio RS 200 EDC isn't quite as scalpel sharp as its predecessor, but it certainly feels more athletic and more versatile, offering drivers a better all - round experience.

We drove the 2013 Lancer Evo earlier this year and found it to be as precise as a scalpel with a thimble for a gas tank.

«School improvement — increasing student learning — requires teachers to be as sharp as a scalpel, quick as a wink, smart as a whip, and responsive to every student, including those who are homeless, those who have learning challenges, those who already know the material, and those who fit into as many categories as there are students in the classroom.

Nymphomaniac holds a deep wisdom within its clutches, and uses a woman's sexuality as a scalpel to rip open the very fabric of humanity.

BEIJING — As the scalpel sliced into the towering celebrity, a throng of people strained against a belt stanchion to glimpse history in the making.

SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS Most of the key surgical tools of 1980 were highly refined versions of classics that had been around for decades or even centuries, such as the scalpel and forceps.

James Slater, a young resident at a Los Angeles hospital during the 1960s, was horrified that radiation acted like a machete rather than as a scalpel.

You could, in other words, use it as a scalpel rather than a sledgehammer.

A bat is to a baseball player as a scalpel is to a surgeon.

In Morocco Mr Mohamed claims he was tortured as scalpels were used to cut into his chest and genitals, while in Afghanistan he said he was held at a secret «dark prison» and routinely tortured.

In stage plays like «Fan» and «The Importance of Being Earnest,» Wilde used wickedly sharp dialogue and glittering farce as scalpels, laying open the hypocrisies of an Edwardian upper - class audience that only felt the sting on the hansom - cab ride home.

Not exact matches

In 90 minutes the floors, walls and all of the equipment in the room are as clean as a surgeon's scalpel.

«In each chapter, I found myself searching my own heart and remembering that whether I do it from the end of a spatula or a scalpel or a pen, my true calling as a woman is to bring glory to God.»

This Chelsea side rely more on speed, trickery and fluid interchange of positions when attacking, and high - intensity pressing at pace in defense — the scalpel as opposed to the hammer.

A scalpel and long needle are the only way to get the precision cutting I need for my plates and curls of cartridge paper are brilliant for supporting the clay as it's drying while being flexible enough to move with the clay as it shrinks.

There was even an instance of a baby last year that died as a result of a severe accidental scalpel incision.

So ebil obstetricians are both trigger - happy scalpel fiends, desperate to cut wombyn open as soon as look at them, AND lazy, lackadaisical layabouts who won't go near wombyn with a scalpel until it's too late... Also, you said the woman still wanted to try for a vaginal delivery, so in other words the midwife wanted to overrule the OB AND the woman, and force an operative birth on the mother.

Once headed for a career as a surgeon, Landrigan talked with DISCOVER about why he traded in his scalpel for a stethoscope, why he is unafraid of wading into battle against entrenched corporate interests, how he navigates hostile political waters, and what propelled him to become a champion of children's environmental health.

I tried to hoist myself up, already swabbed in iodine, as I suggested that I ought to pop into the men's room before the scalpels came out.

While Minyard happens to be a physician — he worked as an obstetrician - gynecologist before becoming coroner — he isn't a forensic pathologist and never actually puts scalpel to flesh.

Yet even as teams developed the CRISPR / Cas9 gene - editing system for biomedical and basic research purposes, multiple groups have been on the lookout for better versions of the molecular scalpel.

One of the secrets to making tiny laser devices such as opthalmic surgery scalpels work even more efficiently is the use of tiny semiconductor particles, called quantum dots.

It works as a «molecular scalpel,» says North Carolina State University's Rodolphe Barrangou, one of the researchers who discovered CRISPR's immune function.

Based on the images obtained with an MRI scanner, the surgeon determines the structure of the inflammation, which afterwards will serve as a blueprint for his scalpel during the operation.»

These plasma scalpels would cauterize flesh as they slice.

Such an effort should come as no surprise in the 1990s, when every week a gene is linked to some human problem, be it colon cancer, Huntington's disease or Alzheimer's, and even our sexual orientation is being dissected by the genetic scalpel.

Just as we can heal with a scalpel, we can heal with words.

Once the Food and Drug Administration approves the gene gun as a medical device, Sun and Yang hope to aim it at human tumors, particularly those beyond the reach of a scalpel.

«You can think about it as a molecular scalpel,» said biochemist Jennifer Doudna of the University of California at Berkeley.

So, rather than let age bring us down - as it sometimes does - or send us rushing under the cosmetic surgeon's scalpel, let's explore creative ways to amortize the consequences of the passing years, and naturally turn back the clock with some easy and simple anti-ageing techniques.

Asking a stranger to spot for you is almost as bad as handing a scalpel to a random person on the street and asking them to remove your appendix.

I was taught that we do not control Reiki, as a surgeon might control a scalpel.

As I'm very comfortable with scalpels (occupational hazard), I actually found it much easier to remove the rhinestone with a scalpel, and place use it it onto the bead of glue I had just added onto the fabric, though it would work just as easily with a knife or anything that comes to a poinAs I'm very comfortable with scalpels (occupational hazard), I actually found it much easier to remove the rhinestone with a scalpel, and place use it it onto the bead of glue I had just added onto the fabric, though it would work just as easily with a knife or anything that comes to a poinas easily with a knife or anything that comes to a point.

Wiseman listens raptly as a panoply of docents decode the great canvases of Da Vinci, Rembrandt, and Turner; he visits with the museum's restorers as they use magnifying glasses, tiny eye - droppers, scalpels, and Q - tips to repair an infinitesimal chip; he attends administrative meetings in which senior executives do (polite) battle with younger ones who want the museum to become less stodgy and more welcoming to a larger cross-section of the public.

Such concerns become moot once the picture passes a certain point, however, as Death Wish transforms into just the sort of unapologetically ruthless and violent thriller that rarely gets made nowadays (ie its very existence is a delightful novelty)- with the movie's second half boasting a series of gleefully over-the-top instances of R - rated mayhem (including an awesomely cringeworthy torture sequence involving a scalpel and battery acid).

Also, they went overboard trying to stuff as many elements into the comics into one film as possible, instead of taking a scalpel to the overgrown GL mythos.

Her character's scalpel - sharp understanding of Kaufman comes through as she soothes his worried parents ringside at a match where he's about to be clobbered.

Photographed by celebrated cinematographer Edward Lachman, who would go on to serve as DP on the likes of «Erin Brockovich» and «The Virgin Suicides,» «Scalpel» is an exemplary slice of Southern - fried gothic, finally rescued from VHS obscurity in this revelatory new Blu - ray edition from Arrow Video.

When he happens across a young woman one night, her face beaten beyond recognition, the unhinged Reynolds sees this as an opportunity to put his trusty scalpel to use — hatching a plan to «reconstruct» her face in the image of his missing daughter, and so claim her sizeable inheritance.

Scalpel (1977) US television staple Robert Lansing stars as a deranged surgeon in this twisty - turny psychological thriller from «Blood Rage» director John Grissmer.

Flattering Bret Easton Ellis's stone - cold satire with a devilish Christian Bale performance and scalpel - sharp period detail, Mary Harron's thriller is close to peerless as a picture of»80s - era vapidity and entitlement.

Austria's king of pain, Michael Haneke, has remade his own 1997 home - invasion thriller with Hollywood actors, preserving every chilly composition and scalpel - like edit as if to say, «I got it right the first time.»

In «God of Carnage,» Reza's scalpel seems just as sharp.

And director Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball) hits a new peak as he takes a scalpel to the privileged worlds of Olympic sports and inherited wealth.