What's the difference between affected and inflicted?

Affected


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Affect
  • (p. p. & a.) Regarded with affection; beloved.
  • (p. p. & a.) Inclined; disposed; attached.
  • (p. p. & a.) Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real.
  • (p. p. & a.) Assumed artificially; not natural.
  • (p. p. & a.) Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The urinary excretion of PGF2 alpha was not affected by atenolol.
  • (2) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
  • (3) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
  • (4) alpha 1-Adrenergic agonists, phenylephrine and norfenefrine, did not affect the synthesis.
  • (5) Coronary arteritis has to be considered as a possible etiology of ischemic symptoms also in subjects who appear affected by typical atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease.
  • (6) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
  • (7) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
  • (8) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
  • (9) We conclude that the SHBG concentration strongly affects this estimation.
  • (10) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
  • (11) We postulate that FAA may affect the human peripheral and mucosal immune system.
  • (12) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
  • (13) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
  • (14) "We have a good reputation, so this won't affect us at all.
  • (15) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
  • (16) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
  • (17) It was concluded that the significant factors affecting outcome are tumor cell type and presence or absence or mitoses.
  • (18) The specific activities of extracts from cells grown under phototrophic and aerobic conditions were similar and not affected by the concentration of iron in the growth media.
  • (19) Periodontal diseases are a collection of disorders that may affect patients throughout life.
  • (20) The pH gradient measured with dimethyloxazolidine-2,4-dione and acetylsalicylic acid was very small in both bacteria at a high pH above 8, and was not affected significantly by the addition of CCCP.

Inflicted


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Inflict

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
  • (2) Perhaps they can laugh it all off more easily, but only to the extent that the show doesn’t instill terror for how this country’s greatness will be inflicted on them next.
  • (3) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
  • (4) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
  • (5) The threshold of epileptic spiking varied inversely with the area of cortical damage inflicted by the electrode.
  • (6) The phrase “self-inflicted blow” was one he used repeatedly, along with the word “glib” – applied to his Vote Leave opponents.
  • (7) The attacker, who was named locally as Jaylen Fryberg, killed one girl on Friday and seriously wounded four people – including two of his cousins – before he died of what police said was a self-inflicted wound.
  • (8) Maltose-positive strains were only demonstrable in birds with wounds inflicted by cats.
  • (9) MPs have voted to abandon the controversial badger cull in England entirely, inflicting an embarrassing defeat on ministers who had already been forced to postpone the start of the killing until next summer.
  • (10) These cases were tested at 9 to 25 years of age, or 8 to 22 years after inflicting injuries.
  • (11) A less intrusive way to make a city smarter might be to give those who govern it a way to try out their decisions in virtual reality before inflicting them on live humans.
  • (12) The concentrating defect in the postobstructive kidney may be related, at least in part, to damage inflicted by medullary ischemia during obstruction.
  • (13) We're kicking off with Spain, where prime minister Mariano Rajoy has defiantly insisted that he would not accept a bailout which would force him to inflict further spending cuts or tax rises on the Spanish people Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy answers journalists questions during last night's interview on the national Spanish Public Television (TVE).
  • (14) All were inflicted with severe smoke inhalation injury and pulmonary was demonstrated.
  • (15) He pointed out that the eighth amendment of the US constitution “prohibits the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain through torture, barbarous methods, or methods resulting in a lingering death”.
  • (16) "Use new satellite imagery to trace buildings, infrastructure, areas, natural features and other important visible features of the city of Ormoc," lists one requests, as well as "map the current state of Tacloban City area after Typhoon Haiyan inflicted heavy damage to buildings, infrastructure and areas".
  • (17) A belated acknowledgement of the damage inflicted by decades of stagnated earnings and inequality have meant pay levels have rightly climbed to prominence, in part spurred by Vermont senator Bernie Sanders who put fair pay at the heart of his campaign attempts to secure the Democratic nomination for president.
  • (18) From January 1989 through December 1990, 74 patients were admitted to our urban level I trauma center with injuries inflicted by baseball bats.
  • (19) The number of self-inflicted deaths occurring in prisons in England and Wales is currently at record levels.” A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: “These are tragic cases, and our thoughts continue to be with the family and friends of Ian Brown and Daniel Dunkley.
  • (20) The finding that lymphocytes are not affected by the liposome encapsulated drug suggests that the observed loss of lymphocytes in vivo, after intravenous dichloromethylene diphosphonate liposome treatment, may be due to damage inflicted by lysosomal enzymes released from dying macrophages.

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