What's the difference between actuary and registrar?

Actuary


Definition:

  • (n.) A registrar or clerk; -- used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registrar generally.
  • (n.) The computing official of an insurance company; one whose profession it is to calculate for insurance companies the risks and premiums for life, fire, and other insurances.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The actuarial 5-year disease-free survival rates were 83% (group 1), 83% (group 2), and 100% (group 3).
  • (2) This activity scheme uses as its base, dose potency measured as TD50, the chronic dose rate that actuarially halves the adjusted percentage of tumor-free animals at the end of the study (Gold et al., Environ.
  • (3) The actuarial 4-year rate of continuous disease control above the clavicles was 78% for Stage II.
  • (4) T1 and T2 cases, with an actuarial survival of 44% at five years, had a significantly better prognosis than T3 cases (31%) and T4 cases (10%).
  • (5) Five-year actuarial survival rates were 67%, 60%, and 38%, respectively.
  • (6) A second device was implanted in 41 patients with residual flow, and 37 of these had complete occlusion, giving an overall latest follow-up occlusion rate of 77% and an actuarial complete occlusion rate for one or two devices of 94.8% (95% Cl 92.9 to 96.7) at 30 months after implantation of the first device.
  • (7) The five- and ten-year actuarial survival of all patients was 50% and 46%, respectively.
  • (8) The marked improvement during recent years in prognosis for patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), has also had actuarial consequences.
  • (9) Relapse following second and subsequent remission BMT was predicted by a score based on standard prognostic features or by the pace of the disease: patients with an interval of less than 2 years between diagnosis and first relapse having a 15% actuarial disease-free survival, compared with 81% for patients with an interval greater than 2 years (P less than 0.001).
  • (10) Thirteen (36%) of the 36 patients died before adequate antifungal therapy could be administered, while 13 survived long enough to receive 1,500 mg of amphotericin B; actuarial survival of the latter group from the date 1,500 mg of amphotericin B had been infused was 47% at 1 year.
  • (11) The 5-year actuarial survival for Stage IIA was 86% and the 5-year actuarial survival for Stage IIB was 46% (p = 0.06).
  • (12) Actuarial observed 2 yr. survival is 33% and the median survival is 15 months.
  • (13) The actuarial 5- and 10-year survival was 77 and 65%, respectively with 55 and 48% 5 and 10 year disease-free survival.
  • (14) The overall actuarial survival rate was 86.5% at 5 years and 78.0% at 10 years.
  • (15) The results indicate that half or more of the interstate differences in spending for this population group are due to actuarial and efficiency factors rather than deviations from equity potential.
  • (16) Utilizing these guidelines, a 1-year actuarial survival following each of these procedures of greater than 60% can be expected.
  • (17) Five-year actuarial survival rates were 86.6% for frank, 98.8% for microinvasive and 98.8% for in situ carcinomas.
  • (18) Patients with one or more of the above risk factors who received BMT have a disease-free survival of 61% with a median follow-up of 66 months (range 11 months to 10.6 years), and an actuarial relapse rate of 10%.
  • (19) The actuarial survival at 2 years after grafting of Blacks, Hispanics and Asians was compared with that of Caucasians transplanted between 1971 and 1985 for aplastic anaemia, acute non-lymphocytic leukaemia and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
  • (20) Actuarial 5-year survival was 90% for pT1, 51% for pT2 and 34% for pT3, bladder treatment being unsuccessful in 6 cases (11%).

Registrar


Definition:

  • (n.) One who registers; a recorder; a keeper of records; as, a registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. See Register, n., 3.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To evaluate the first full year of operation of the rural registrar scheme by comparing the educational activities undertaken by the participating rural general practitioners with those undertaken in the previous year.
  • (2) The well established effect of physique remains, but there is no effect of socio-economic status as assessed by the Registrar-General's classification of the father's occupation.
  • (3) When you register the death, the registrar will give you a unique reference number to use the Tell Us Once service.
  • (4) The registrar was very sympathetic but confirmed we were of the opposite sex and said consequently she could not provide a civil partnership,” explained Steinfeld, 33, who was until recently a visiting scholar at Stanford University in the US.
  • (5) The surgery has six doctors (five partners and a salaried doctor who is covering for a partner on maternity leave); two registrars (GPs about to qualify who are allowed to see patients on their own but have a mentoring doctor they can consult if they want a second opinion); three nurses, one full- and two part-time; eight receptionists each working a few hours a day; and four stressed-out admin staff.
  • (6) Ruling the registrar had made "an error of law", the judge said section 144 did not apply to squatter's title because it was enacted to deal with householders who needed rapid police help to get rid of squatters who had moved into their homes whilst they were away.
  • (7) A series of 80 consecutive procedures, carried out for 43 day-stay patients under general anaesthesia by seven junior staff (senior house officers and registrars: 39 procedures) and four senior staff (senior registrars and consultants: 41 procedures) were analysed.
  • (8) The court has not yet set an exact date for the start of the appeal, the court registrar Paul Myburgh said, but it will be this November.
  • (9) Instead she presented in labour and Dharmasena, the on-call registrar, had to delivery the baby in an emergency procedure which involved him making a cut through the scar tissue of her FGM.
  • (10) The South Dakota Tumor Registrars' Association reviewed breast cancer cases in South Dakota for the years 1983 and 1988.
  • (11) To determine the nature of possible factors, the Registrar General's decennial supplement and the vital statistics special reports of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare on occupational mortality were analysed for occupation-specific mortality from peptic ulcer.
  • (12) The CPQ identified significantly more patients with a family history of cancer than had previously been detected by chart review by the tumor registrar.
  • (13) The duty registrar and two consultants independently graded the severity of each baby's illness without knowledge of the Baby Check score.
  • (14) But we were refused by the registrar, who said it was “not worth her job” to perform an act of civil disobedience.
  • (15) But in a 2009 report into the problem of stillbirths it found that, from a sample of 100 such cases, 39 involved a CTG error – 25 by midwives, eight by a registrar or senior registrar and four by a consultant obstetrician.
  • (16) The obstetric outcome and experience of care of 96 pregnant women attending an integrated community antenatal clinic staffed by general practitioners, a community midwife and an obstetric accredited senior registrar were compared with those of 100 women receiving traditional shared antenatal care.
  • (17) Any deviation will result in the certificate be rejected by the Registrar of Death and the matter referred to the Coroner.
  • (18) Occupy London , which arrived outside the church on 15 October when it was denied access to nearby Paternoster Square, the home of the London Stock Exchange, faces multiple accusations of obstruction and disruption, from witnesses including Nicholas Cottam, the registrar of St Paul's.
  • (19) In June 1988, a questionnaire was sent to 221 Danish general practitioners chosen at random and to 195 registrars who had applied for postgraduate courses in general medicine.
  • (20) A computer-based method for linking MONICA Project registration records with the Registrar General's death certification data identified 273 of the 277 deaths.

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