What's the difference between adjunct and appurtenant?
Adjunct
Definition:
(a.) Conjoined; attending; consequent.
(n.) Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it.
(n.) A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate.
(n.) A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "History."
(n.) A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.
(n.) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.
Example Sentences:
(1) EMLA cream, usually used for skin surface analgesia, was tested as an adjunct to anesthesia in dermabrasion.
(2) CT is useful as an adjunct to the clinical examination in predicting outcome after SAH.
(4) Por the treatment of L.A., adjunction of dialysis and furosemide improved the efficacy of early and massive sodium bicarbonate infusion.
(5) The data document the compliance of adolescent girls with telephone appointments and suggest that this technique may be a useful adjunct for monitoring patients requiring close medical follow-up.
(6) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(7) This study raises the possibility of lithium carbonate use as an adjunct in the treatment of amphetamine addiction.
(8) Transluminal iliac angioplasty is a valuable adjunct to distal bypass surgery by improving arterial inflow without the requirement for major aorto iliac surgery.
(9) A new approach is presented to the refractive procedure by adding observation, both surreptitious and direct, as an adjunct, an aid and a supplement to differential diagnosis in a refractive examination and in visual analysis.
(10) The efficacy of adjunctive verapamil on psychopathological symptoms and tardive dyskinesia was investigated in 22 chronic schizophrenic patients, who had partially responded to neuroleptics.
(11) Postmortem biochemical indices may provide a useful adjunct to morphological studies in the identification of antemortem brain insult.
(12) immunoglobulin, purified from the plasma of local semi-immune blood donors, as an adjunct to standard treatment for cerebral malaria in Malawian children.
(13) The rationale for the use of exercise as part of the treatment program in type II diabetes is much clearer and regular exercise may be prescribed as an adjunct to caloric restriction for weight reduction and as a means of improving insulin sensitivity in the obese, insulin-resistant individual.
(14) Endoscopic coagulation is a useful adjunct in the treatment of this condition, and is safe, effective, and leaves other options open.
(15) These studies suggest that intraarterial UK may be a useful adjunctive therapy after revascularization of the acutely ischemic limb and that further clinical trials are recommended.
(16) The perfluoropropane gas was used as an adjunct to vitreoretinal microsurgery in 60 eyes of 60 patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment complicated by proliferative vitreoretinopathy.
(17) These results show that NSE is almost as sensitive as, but more specific than, S100 protein in discriminating Langerhans-cell from non-Langerhans cell cutaneous histiocytoses, and that it consequently represents a useful adjunct in the immunohistochemical diagnosis of histiocytic skin diseases.
(18) Surgery must be considered the mainstay of therapy for fibrosarcoma, but there is a need for adjunctive therapy.
(19) In addition, most of the studies used HBO as an adjunctive treatment in the management of refractory osteoradionecrosis.
(20) Combined with complete bowel rest, intravenous hyperalimentation can effectively function as the primary treatment or as an adjunct to the surgical management of the complications of inflammatory bowel disease.
Appurtenant
Definition:
(a.) Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings.
(n.) Something which belongs or appertains to another thing; an appurtenance.
Example Sentences:
(1) The appurtenance of the isolates to the same electrophoretic type together with epidemiological data allows the examined cases of rotavirus gastroenteritis to be considered as nosocomial ones.
(2) PAP method with monoclonal antibodies may be used in both hematologic and cytologic laboratories for determining the histogenetic appurtenance of the cells in dubious diagnostic cases.
(3) The diagnosticums produced by the amidole method show higher specificity and facilitate the determination of the type and subtype appurtenance of epidemic and inter-epidemic influenza virus strains.
(4) Specific features of the cytologic picture were studied and the criteria of the cytologic verification of the tumor type and genetic appurtenance defined in cytologic studies of puncture biopsy specimens, removed tumor impressions, scrapings off, and histologic sections in the patients with malignant tumors of the synovial tissue.
(5) Mr Dombey, her father, is one of Dickens's emotionally cauterised men of wealth and power, rich in worldly appurtenances and poor in any concession to humanity.
(6) A method for preparation of erythrocyte antibody diagnosticums capable of differentiating in PHA test the type and subtype appurtenance of influenza virus strains was developed on the basis of amidol sensitization of erythrocytes with immunoglobulin preparations and the use as a stabilizing agent of nonionic detergent triton X-100.
(7) In the patients' group, it was found to depend to a greater measure on the stage of anorexia nervosa, whereas in the relatives, on the nosological appurtenance of the syndrome in their children.
(8) The authors wanted to demonstrate in their present paper that forensic medicine and its modern methods can help to elucidate some historical findings not only as regards mechanisms of injury but in the first member's of the dynasty of Premysl also by evidence of group appurtenance using the two-phase and two-circle system.
(9) After measurement, mean values; standard deviations (SD); and trendograms of SBP, DBP, and HR are printed out by means of an appurtenant, miniature analyzer measuring 5 X 7.5 X 15 cm.
(10) The literature data and the results of a study of genetic blood markers of the ABO system in pulmonary tuberculosis patients and in 1947 donors (control group) are given in relation to the ethnic appurtenance.
(11) In order to specify the histogenetic appurtenance of dermatofibrosarcoma protuberance, the ultrastructure of cells from three tumors was studied.
(12) Originally created by Sivadon in the context of relative freedom due to appurtenance to the private sector, this experience has been developed through addition of a variety of therapeutic structures to end up with a comprehensive System of social psychiatric deserving a catchment area.
(13) Nine strains having neuraminidase of subtype N1 and two strains in which the appurtenance of neuraminidase to subtype N1 was determined in the course of the study were examined for the antigenic specificity of the functional center of the enzyme in the cross neuraminidase activity inhibition test.
(14) As a result of evident appurtenance to G. latus--complex, P. asotus seems to be the "wrong" host.
(15) Accordingly, the histogenetic (cytogenetic) appurtenance of a tumor depends not upon its development from one to another type of differentiated cells but upon further direction of differentiation of transformed cells.
(16) The same MCA were used as primary and detecting antibodies in the test system specific for HA of the H1 serosubtype, whereas in the test system specific for influenza A serosubtype H3 virus MCA of different epitope appurtenance were used as primary and secondary antibodies.
(17) The remaining cell lines had the isoenzymatic characteristics corresponding to their species appurtenance.
(18) The appurtenant current generator can deliver more than 5000 A to the coil.
(19) The results of this investigation confirm the importance of the evaluation of type-subtype appurtenance of reference and laboratory strains used in experiments.
(20) Resistance to rimantadine in influenza viruses correlated in X-7 and X-9 recombinants to the strain appurtenance of fragment VIII.