Sentences with phrase «by scalpels»

Buoyed by scalpel - sharp writing and even keener performances, The Big C (created by comedian and sitcom writer Darlene Hunt) walks a fine line of having it both ways.

BEST has some low frequency content in its final sutured product, but since all the original low frequency was destroyed by the scalpel, what low frequecy reappears is highly suspect.

So, the pregnant question, and admittedly my hobby - horse, can / does the BEST methodology preserve a hypothetical 60 year frequency in data that is chopped up by the scalpel?

Not exact matches

Over the next two years we learned anatomy by dissecting them with scalpels and forceps.

At the time, I'd just discovered the beautiful work of Supercutetilly and By Charlie's Hand and was absolutely amazed at what they could do with a scalpel.

I don't care if it is by scissors, scalpel, laser or electrocautery.

, which consists of removing the lingual frenulum by using laser, scalpel, or electrocautery.

For Liu, the USC neurosurgeon wielding the scalpel, the operation itself was the culmination of decades of research by scientists around the world.

An initial test to determine if a scalpel - free form of brain surgery can reduce tremor caused by Parkinson's disease has produced encouraging results.

In medicine, a surgeon might be able to perform remote operations beyond the simple use of a scalpel, or train for tumor screening by feeling for virtual lumps in real tissue.

Lifting a scalpel to the surface of the rich yellow tunic worn by the Christ child, he gently pressed in and removed an all but invisible core sample.

That is why surgical robots have never been more than large, complex instruments wielded by human hands: an autonomous robot with a scalpel is too much of a risk.

That well - intentioned interference had an unforeseen effect: It helped freeze the human body in its current form by easing the selection pressures that are evolution's scalpel.

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.

The souped - up scalpel works by analyzing lipids, the fatty molecules that make up much of the cell membrane.

Cao's new transfer technique works by applying a drop of water to the thin film and then poking the edge of the film with tweezers or a scalpel so that the water can begin to penetrate between the MoS2 and the sapphire.

For tissue samples, lung or liver tissue was homogenized in a 15 mL Eppendorf tube using a disposable microtube pestle (Eppendorf, San Diego, CA) and scalpel, and RNA extraction was then performed using TRIzol LS (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA), followed by isopropanol precipitation and two washes in 70 % ethanol.

Three replicate tissue sections (∼ 10l × 3 w × 3 d cm), separated by ∼ 5 cm were cut using a sterile scalpel blade from n = 5 non-diseased (ND) fish, n = 5 diseased (D) fish (Fig. 1a) at the lesion interface and n = 5 apparently healthy (AH) tissues adjacent to the lesion on a disease fish.

While such scalpels have existed for decades, the iKnife's innovation was to analyze the smoke created by the singed tissues to determine if they were cancerous.

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.

Among the many atrocities meriting the «unrated» Hellbound: Hellraiser II's rating: a brain surgery is shown in loving detail; a few skulls are punctured by hungry fingers; whole skins are exchanged, split, and chuffed off like surgical scrubs; throats are slashed; drills are misused; and scalpel - tipped tentacles wreak politically incorrect havoc on an invalid ward.

The scalpel belongs to Dr Steven Murphy, an Irish heart surgeon based in a Cincinnati hospital and played by Colin Farrell (even better here than he was in Lanthimos» last film, the absurdist comedy The Lobster).

Net - Frog, a highly acclaimed interactive frog dissection program that does away with formaldehyde, scalpels and squeamishness, was developed by Curry faculty members, first on videodisc and then online.

The steering is still ultra-quick by most standards, but the front tyres have little trouble obeying the demands put upon them, and the rear of the car feels in tune with this scalpel - sharp set - up.

Peugeot's 208 GTi by Peugeot Sport has also been a firm evo favourite for the last couple of years, offering a far more dynamic driving experience than most rivals, dominated by its rev - happy 1.6 - litre turbocharged four - cylinder engine and scalpel - like front end.

The high cornering forces it's capable of are conducted by steering that, once it sheds its initial low - speed deadness, becomes beautifully weighted and scalpel - sharp.

The Sonic RS was more than adept at carving up twisty pieces of tarmac, and it was controllable at its limits; but where the Swift Sport was a scalpel, sharp and incisive, the Sonic was a knife with a pillow over the tip, not blunt, but soft by comparison to the Suzuki.

Again, this isn't a problem for enthusiast buyers who want a street - legal DTM racer, but former AMG buyers who perhaps erred on the side of «meat cleaver» vs. «scalpel» may be surprised by the sacrifices required in a true track toy.

The Ford Mustang is expected to go under the scalpel for its mid-cycle refresh for the 2018 model year — a prospect supported by the volume of spy photographs depicting camouflage - wearing prototypes that have surfaced lately.

Sound proofing: almost flawless, substantially helped by the C - Class Coupé's sleek lines and scalpel - like aerodynamic coefficient, a dynamic duo keeping wind noise at bay, although some idle diesel clattering does squeeze inside the cabin every now and then.

To minimize the risk of a patient being injured during sampling, especially when performed by inexperienced team members, dull the scalpel blade first on a hard surface or use a metal spatula instead of a blade.

It involves cutting off each of your cat's front toes at the front joint by guillotine, scalpel or laser.

The scalpel is largely replaced by our highly sterile laser in our facility.

If treatment is elected, the wart (s) can be removed by electrocautery, a scalpel blade, or by a laser unit often without a general anesthetic.

Every cut of the scalpel, every pinch of the forceps, each and every second that ticks by is of the absolute greatest importance.

Damien Hirst: Black Scalpel Cityscapes White Cube São Paulo 8 November 2014 — 31 January 2015 «London» (2014) Photographed by Prudence Cuming Associates © Damien Hirst / Science ltd..

White Cube, which has an outpost in Hong Kong, sold one of Damien Hirst's Black Scalpel Blade cityscapes of Shanghai for about $ 1.2 million, while White Space of Beijing reported that 70 percent of its works sold within the first two days, including several works by the young Chinese conceptual artist He Xiangyu.

Around 1960, Fontana began to reinvent the cuts and punctures that had characterized his highly personal style up to that point, covering canvases with layers of thick oil paint applied by hand and brush and using a scalpel or Stanley knife to create great fissures in their surface.

She has been known in the past to use smoke stains and cow droppings to create her compositions, while she has made more recent paintings by cutting forms out of a stretched canvas with a scalpel, allowing the cutaway pieces to hang off the work.

Every work is made from individual pieces of wallpaper, painstakingly cut with a scalpel and placed side by side, never overlapping.

VOLTA: «Untitled,» 2007 (tissue paper hand cut with scalpel) by Elisabetta Di Maggio at Laura Bulian Gallery of Milan.

«Untitled,» 2007 (tissue paper hand cut with scalpel) by Elisabetta Di Maggio at Laura Bulian Gallery of Milan.

Wealthy collectors snapped up a everything from a $ 10,000 painting by emerging Chinese artist Yuan Yuan to an 800,000 pounds ($ 1.3 million) for a scalpel blade painting by Damien Hirst.

That was before BEST broke out the scalpel and made the situation much worse from a long wavelength aspect by making short temperature segments fashionable.

• Since the Berkeley Earth «scalpel» method would slice these into separate records at the time of the discontinuities caused by the maintenance, it throws away the trend correction information obtained at the time when the episodic maintenance removes the instrumental drift from the record.

We are able to use the scalpel approach because our analysis method can use very short records, whereas the methods employed by other groups generally require their time series be long enough to contain a significant reference or overlap interval.

Inspired by a childhood spent in nature, this artist combines sharp scalpel skills and a creative eye to craft these intricate pieces.

The matriculating young lawyer is as qualified to represent a client with the education he has suffered through as a doctor who has never seen a patient, who has never held a scalpel in his hand and who learns surgery by having read text books about it and becomes skilled in surgery, if ever, after having stacked up piles of corpses who represent his pathetic learning process.

If the text is deemed to be «unambiguous,» then textualism seems to cleanly slice through obfuscation like a scalpel, cutting away all messy questions about how to define and apply broad statutory purpose, legislative history, or judicially crafted substantive canons by instructing the judge to follow the «plain» text.

Well, unlike traditional dynamic drivers, which create sound by pushing air like a piston for a more - hatchet - than - scalpel approach, planar drivers use a micro-thin membrane excited by a magnet to create subtle vibrations that more accurately reproduce the music you love.