What's the difference between adequately and satisfactory?

Adequately


Definition:

  • (adv.) In an adequate manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
  • (2) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
  • (3) In this review, we demonstrate that serum creatinine does not provide an adequate estimate of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and contrary to recent teachings, that the slope of the reciprocal of serum creatinine vs time does not permit an accurate assessment of the rate of progression of renal disease.
  • (4) In the past 6 years 26 patients underwent operation for recurrent duodenal ulcer after what was considered to be an "adequate" initial operation.
  • (5) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
  • (6) Failure to develop an adequate resource will be costly in the long run.
  • (7) Preexistent diseases that could possibly be improved should be treated adequately before operation.
  • (8) Six of eight AD and seven of eight vitamin A-adequate dams carried pregnancy to term (greater than or equal to Day 64).
  • (9) Analysis was performed on all patients who received any amount of therapy (VSG) and on the Adequately Treated Group (ATG), who had received 5000 or more rads radiotherapy, two or more courses of chemotherapy, and had a minimum survival of 8 or more weeks (the interval that would have been required to have received either the radiotherapy or chemotherapy).
  • (10) The primary focus of both nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapy should be to control systemic blood pressure in a simple, affordable, and nontoxic fashion that provides an adequate quality of life.
  • (11) Provided that adequate reflection is given and the appropriate moment chosen, it is well tolerated and provides all the necessary information.
  • (12) Even if it does not always provide the solution to a particularly delicate problem, which is often of vital importance, it provides data which, modifiable and better used, should provide an adequate notion of the anatomical and physiopathological state in aortic stenosis.
  • (13) Electron microscopic radioautography is considered as the most adequate method for studying intracellular regeneration.
  • (14) Specific antisera prepared in rabbits or in foot-pad-inoculated chickens were adequate for culture typing.
  • (15) The capacity of granule-cell networks to separate overlapping patterns of activity on their inputs is adequate, with spatial variability in the secretion at synapses, but is improved if there is also temporal variability in the stochastic secretion at individual synapses, although this is at the expense of reliability in the network.
  • (16) Based on the economics of most countries in Africa, their Health Budgets can afford mostly the non-opioid and strong opioid drugs in more or less adequate quantities.
  • (17) In this way complex interpretations can be made objective, so that they may be adequately tested.
  • (18) The latter indicated that, despite the smaller size of the digital image, they were adequate for resolving clinically significant soft-tissue densities.
  • (19) Bone age has been analyzed mixed-longitudinally in a subsample of 370 patients (660 observations) and showed a slight retardation at all ages between 6 and 13 yr. Development of pubic hair of 91 subjects analyzed cross-sectionally was definitely retarded when compared to adequate reference data.
  • (20) The authors are also upfront about what has not gone so well: "We were too slow to mobilise … we did not identify clear leadership or adequate resources for the actions … it is vital to accelerate the programme of civil service reform."

Satisfactory


Definition:

  • (a.) Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation.
  • (a.) Making amends, indemnification, or recompense; causing to cease from claims and to rest content; compensating; atoning; as, to make satisfactory compensation, or a satisfactory apology.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The result of this study demonstrates that both the "hat" and "inverted" type grafts are highly successful and satisfactory procedures.
  • (2) Moreover, one may expect satisfactory results in most cases.
  • (3) Sonographic images of the gallbladder enable satisfactory approximation of gallbladder volume using the sum-of-cylinders method.
  • (4) The first experiment gave good results, although only one participant had any previous experience of hinge axis location, and it is debatable whether or not this experience is necessary before satisfactory results can be obtained.
  • (5) It is clear that before general release of a new living feline infectious enteritis vaccine, there must be satisfactory evidence that concurrent infection will not affect the safety of the modified antigen.In cats infected with feline infectious enteritis there appears to be a short period, coinciding with the onset of leucopaenia, during which they are highly infectious.
  • (6) Most of our adults with myelomeningocele had satisfactory sexual function.
  • (7) The isolation procedure leads to enzymes with high specific activities in satisfactory yields.
  • (8) Hospitalisation time was short and satisfactory alimentation was achieved.
  • (9) Generally the course of symptoms was more favorable, when people found a satisfactory job.
  • (10) Group 1 (n = 19) had mean HbA1 during months 3-48 in the normal range of less than 7.8% (near-normoglycaemic control), Group 2 (n = 18) showed moderately elevated mean HbA1 between 7.8 and 8.5% (satisfactory control), and Group 3 (n = 18) had clearly elevated mean HbA1 of greater than or equal to 8.6% (poor control).
  • (11) Combining data on cows with productive and salvaged outcomes as satisfactory outcome, and terminal as unsatisfactory outcome, total correct classification was 90.7% for the admission model and 93.2% for the surgical model.
  • (12) Mean VCF (sens 83 percent, spec 80 percent), %S (sens 50 percent, spec 96 percent), EFC (senc 58 percent, spec 96 percent), and EFQ (sens 58 percent, spec 92 percent) were less satisfactory.
  • (13) Furthermore, this system can be satisfactory handled by technical personnel after short periods of training.
  • (14) The large number of pancreas tests recommended today shows that no single method is satisfactory.
  • (15) In the remaining 122, the system worked well and the majority of patients obtained satisfactory analgesia.
  • (16) Long-term results of treatment of gunshot wounds of the liver are not considered to be satisfactory.
  • (17) A satisfactory antisialogogue effect was seen in 83-90% of each group.
  • (18) As liquid medium gave satisfactory and quicker results the subsequent 1904 samples were cultured only on liquid medium to determine its usefulness in routine work.
  • (19) The technique has proved satisfactory in 2 patients.
  • (20) Fetal outcome was, however, satisfactory in all cases.