What's the difference between administer and dispense?

Administer


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state.
  • (v. t.) To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament.
  • (v. t.) To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc.
  • (v. t.) To tender, as an oath.
  • (v. t.) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
  • (v. i.) To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister.
  • (v. i.) To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B.
  • (n.) Administrator.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, there was no correlation between the length of time PN was administered to onset of cholestasis and the gestational age or birth weight of the infants.
  • (2) A quantitative comparison of tissue distribution and excretion of an orally administered sublethal dose of [3H]diacetoxyscirpenol (anguidine) was made in rats and mice 90 min, 24 hr, and 7 days after treatment.
  • (3) A novel prostaglandin E2 analogue, CL 115347, can be administered transdermally on a long-term basis.
  • (4) We investigated whether these peptides also affect the sleep EEG in humans when given intravenously by comparing polysomnographically the effects of four boluses of (1) placebo, (2) 50 micrograms GHRH or (3) 50 micrograms SRIF administered at 22.00, 23.00, 24.00 and 1.00 h to 7 male controls.
  • (5) Veterans admitted to a 90-day alcoholism treatment program were administered the MMPI, and those who completed the program were retested before discharge.
  • (6) To the remaining patients who suffered from severe insomnia, 7-chloro-5-(2-chlorophenyl)-1,3-dihydro-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one (chlordesmethyldiazepam, 2 mg orally) was administered for 7 consecutive evenings.
  • (7) The second experiments entailed use of the nonspecific opiate antagonist, naloxone, as well as the specific delta antagonist, ICI 154,129, against seizures induced by icv-administered morphine, morphiceptin, DADL, or DSLET.
  • (8) Pentamidine aerosol was administered with an MA2 jet nebulizer.
  • (9) testosterone, fentanyl, nicotine) may ultimately be administered in this way, important questions pertaining to pharmacology (tolerance), toxicity (irritation, sensitisation) and dose sufficiency (penetration enhancement) remain.
  • (10) Blood was cross-matched preoperatively in 47.7% of patients and 90% of this blood was either not administered or given as a delayed nonurgent procedure.
  • (11) We are currently conducting a trial to compare the ability of DHPG administered plus an anti-CMV immune globulin preparation with acyclovir to prevent posttransplant TI-CMV disease.
  • (12) Buserelin and Flutamide were administered three times daily, intranasally and orally respectively, at a dose of 1.2 mg and 750 mg for twelve months.
  • (13) Infusion of 1 unit of 25-HCC per hour for 6 hours induced an antiphosphaturia only when administered with 0.2 units of PTH per hour, while neither agent alone changed phosphate excretion.
  • (14) But no such protective effect is seen if the phenobarbitone is administered after treatment with these carcinogens.
  • (15) Mechanical ventilation was soon instituted and several antibiotics and acyclovir were administered intravenously, with marked effects.
  • (16) The effect of ipratropium bromide administered at two dosage levels, 40 and 80 mug, isoproterenol, 150 mug, and placebo using a metered dose inhaler was evaluated in ten adult patients with asthma in a double-blind, crossover study.
  • (17) In one series of experiments, the animals were not treated before the tissues were conventionally fixed; in another, anesthetized animals were administered horseradish peroxidase 20 min before the tissues were fixed.
  • (18) This was treated with local radiation therapy consisting of 2700 rads administered in 15 fractions during a period of 28 days.
  • (19) Efficacy and tolerability of perorally administered desmopressin were evaluated in 12 adult patients suffering from central diabetes insipidus.
  • (20) The relatively high incidence of nephroblastoma in the Nb rat using transplacentally administered ENU appears to represent a suitable basis for developing a rodent model of human nephroblastoma or Wilms' tumor.

Dispense


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines.
  • (v. t.) To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
  • (v. t.) To pay for; to atone for.
  • (v. t.) To exempt; to excuse; to absolve; -- with from.
  • (v. i.) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
  • (v. i.) To give dispensation.
  • (v. t.) Dispensation; exemption.
  • (n.) Expense; profusion; outlay.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With the flat-fee system, drug charges are not recorded when the drug is dispensed by the pharmacy; data for charging doses are obtained directly from the MAR forms generated by the nursing staff.
  • (2) The surgical procedure, using a dispensable tendon, could be directly associated to the sutures of the proximal injuries of the cubital nerve as a temporary palliative.
  • (3) Thus, phosphorylation and the 25 carboxy-terminal amino acids appear to be dispensable for protein function.
  • (4) Those behind it have once again taken the law into their own hands and dispensed a vile form of rough justice.
  • (5) He was greeted in Kyoto by Abe, with the men dispensing with the formal handshake that starts most head of governments' greetings in favour of a full body hug.
  • (6) Because contact lenses present a management problem, this method of dispensation will be used only for selected cases.
  • (7) I have no experience of an actual car club, but I don't see how you can lose by dispensing with it, unless you live somewhere with very poor public transport.
  • (8) Thus the private sector, which is far from being saturated, has sufficient knowledge available and dispenses care ethically in agreement with institutional recommendations.
  • (9) A rapid gas chromatographic method has been developed which dispenses with separation operations and measures oxalic acid as a diethylester by means of back-flushing, and using malonic acid as an internal standard.
  • (10) These two genetic elements are separated by approximately 3,000 bp of R6K sequences which are dispensable for alpha origin activity.
  • (11) These data suggest that RAP1 is a central regulator of both telomere and chromosome stability and define a C-terminal domain that, while dispensable for viability, is required for these telomeric functions.
  • (12) There were no differences in the number of voids in the automixed material dispensed using the intra-oral tip or impression syringe.
  • (13) Regarding the latter problem, a revised method which dispenses with recording paper is under consideration.
  • (14) Deletion analysis of the LTR indicates that upstream promoter and enhancer elements are dispensible for trans-activation, while sequences 3' of the RNA start site displaying strict orientation and position dependence are required.
  • (15) Other "speech" regions in the left hemisphere appeared to be dispensable for the production of single oral movements, whether these were verbal or nonverbal movements.
  • (16) Duodenal flows of total, indispensible and dispensible amino acids were increased (P less than .05) when steers were fed SBM treatments compared with UC, and greater (P less than .05) when steers were fed ET compared with NT.
  • (17) Oral and rectal dispension of large quantities of the lethal factor does not induce toxic symptoms in rodents.
  • (18) I don't know much about gardening, but barstool footcare advice I can dispense.
  • (19) The time and paperwork involved in dispensing by a physician cannot be considered as minimal interruptions in normal office procedure.
  • (20) It also examined the needs of dispensers of care and relatives (whether mourning or not) of these persons.