What's the difference between accrue and incurred?

Accrue


Definition:

  • (n.) To increase; to augment.
  • (n.) To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.
  • (n.) Something that accrues; advantage accruing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Whether or not any alteration in disease progression will accrue from demonstrated local downstaging is, of course, uncertain.
  • (2) The national study accrued 216 patients with measurable or evaluable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with either unresectable stage III, or distant metastasis (stage IV).
  • (3) The optimization criterion is defined as the net calorie gain a consumer accrues per day.
  • (4) In this article the development of these reagents and various modifications of the basic technique are reviewed in conjunction with the special applications accruing from their use.
  • (5) However, rights being accrued are outstripping receipts.
  • (6) Personal benefits, accruing to the individual nurse, were rated highest and economic benefits were rated lowest.
  • (7) Accumulated costs during and after treatment at surgical departments were almost twice as high as those accrued after treatment in orthopedic units.
  • (8) On page 66 of the annual report, the auditors note that “commercial income is material to the income statement and amounts accrued at the year end are judgmental.
  • (9) "Public debt has been accrued on the government bailing out the banks, military expenditure and supporting shipowners and hotels.
  • (10) Dunford told lawmakers that by July and August “manageable risk” will accrue to US military planning for either a total withdrawal or a significant drawdown.
  • (11) The advantages accruing from the prenatal diagnosis of gastroschisis and omphalocele are outlined.
  • (12) Using data from patients accrued after randomization to the control group, we fail to find evidence that either chemotherapy alone or chemoimmunotherapy improves OS or RFS when contrasted to outcomes obtained by patients on the control arm.
  • (13) Unemployment benefit, slashed last year from a maximum of 5 months at 460 per month, to 3 months at 361 euros will remain the same this year, meaning that any savings accrued over the summer months will be wiped out by the time jobs return to the local economy.
  • (14) The National Cancer Institute consensus statement concerning adjuvant therapy for breast cancer was published in the middle of the 2-year period that study cases were accrued, and treatment plans in this study generally agreed with consensus guidelines.
  • (15) There’s this cycle going on that protects big business from having to divide their massive quantities of wealth they’re accruing.” Labour organisers gathered at a McDonald’s in New York on Wednesday to announce a day of global protest , scheduled for 15 May.
  • (16) After analysis of 26 prospectively accrued patients with distal rectal adenocarcinomas who underwent sphincter preservation treatment, we have concluded that tumors that invade only the submucosa can safely be treated with surgery alone and that tumors that invade the muscularis or further can be safely treated with surgery combined with chemoradiotherapy.
  • (17) Considering the excellent results achieved with operative pleurodesis and the total hospital days accrued with nonoperative therapy, operative pleurodesis should be considered if an active leak persists more than three days after the initial episode of spontaneous pneumothorax or at the time of the first recurrence in the hospitalized patient.
  • (18) Conceptual and psychometric advantages which accrue by using multiple measures are delineated.
  • (19) There are slightly tighter duties in respect of the national insurance benefits that accrue to those who have paid their stamp, including the state pension.
  • (20) Forty sudanese renal allograft recipients were followed up at Soba University Hospital (SUH), Khartoum, Sudan, for varying periods between January 1978 and October 1985 accruing 1417 patient-months of observation.

Incurred


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Incur

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We conclude that mortality rates in the elderly could be improved by encouraging elective surgery and avoiding diagnostic laparatomy in patients with incurable surgical disease.
  • (2) The prime minister and chancellor threaten legal action over any losses incurred by British citizens as banks are nationalized.
  • (3) Domino’s had been in touch with Driscoll on Thursday morning and was “working to make it up to him ... and to ensure he is not out of pocket for any expenses incurred”.
  • (4) Lesion of the central nervous system in man is generally believed to be incurable.
  • (5) This lack of alteration in mitochondrial function was in spite of the fact that these rats consumed an identical amount of ethanol as those which incurred mitochondrial dysfunction.
  • (6) Given the megadoses of steroids taken by some athletes and the large forces incurred by power-trained musculature, the integrity of tendinous tissue in these athletes may be at significant risk of compromise if steroids do, in fact, exert a destructive effect.
  • (7) In patients with coronary artery disease, rapid ventricular rates require adequate treatment since disturbed oxygen balance and ischemia may be incurred.
  • (8) Therefore the usual time for incurring congenital anomalies (or the first trimester of foetal life) could be the commonest time for initiating childhood cancers.
  • (9) Partial peripheral splenic embolization can be performed in case of incurable thrombocytopenia due to hypersplenism without following splenectomy.
  • (10) A series of 83 patients with incurable cancer of the pancreatic head were analysed.
  • (11) Early neurological indicants based on information from the hospital admission clinical examination were studied in a group of patients who had sustained accident-incurred traumatic head injuries.
  • (12) The median number of days lost from practice to defend a malpractice suit was three to five, and 6 percent of the physicians surveyed incurred some out-of-pocket expenses.
  • (13) You are hunting for signs of the assembly of injuries - a broken nose, knocked-out teeth, fractured eye socket - incurred by falling face-first down a fire escape in Michigan while high on crystal meth, crack cocaine and cheap wine.
  • (14) Astrocytoma, the most common brain tumor in humans, is usually malignant and virtually incurable.
  • (15) The Natural Death Act amendments authorize the withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures from patients with incurable or irreversible conditions if death will result within a relatively short time without use of such procedures.
  • (16) By discounting the relevance of child sexual trauma, psychiatric clinicians and theoreticians overlook not only the therapeutic needs of many survivors but the opportunity to reconceptualize the role of trauma in the etiology and treatment of conditions presumed to be incurable.
  • (17) This is in contrast to regular monthly premium payments which incur no further cost to the consumer if cancelled.
  • (18) The cranial ultrasound scan features correlated well with the neuropathological findings and may be helpful in the early detection of this incurable condition.
  • (19) We concluded that the more biodegradable a tube, the more likely it was to incur distortion and luminal narrowing.
  • (20) The author answers "No" and explains why he thinks (1) that medicine should become more oriented toward providing care, preventing premature death, and improving the quality of people's lives for a reasonable span of years (for example, until 80) and less toward saving lives of the very old and incurably ill at great cost; (2) that rationing and priority setting are inevitable because of limited resources; and (3) that the claims of children may on occasion need to be placed before those of the elderly.

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