What's the difference between ancillary and auxiliary?

Ancillary


Definition:

  • (a.) Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recognition of the distinctive morphology of MH and the performance of ancillary studies on cytologic preparations should facilitate the rapid diagnosis and early treatment of this aggressive disease.
  • (2) Direct visualization of the intercavernous sinuses on contrast-enhanced MR images may serve as an ancillary sign for the diagnosis of carotid-cavernous or carotid-dural fistulas near the sella.
  • (3) Transfer of nonprofessional tasks out of nursing and reduction of tension arising from reduced responsibility of nurses for coordinating activities with ancillary departments are possible explanations for the positive relation between the presence of SUM and professional nurses' satisfaction.
  • (4) In ancillary studies, multiple cycles of direct dissolution of UCB crystals revealed a progressive decrease in aqueous solubility of UCB as fine crystals were removed; this effect was minimal in CHCl3.
  • (5) Although limited by availability and cost, MRI appears to be a useful ancillary diagnostic technique in ILD patients facing immunomodulating therapy.
  • (6) CLIA will require unprecedented coordination and cooperation between the clinical laboratory and ancillary sites.
  • (7) The causality principle provides a theoretic and practical basis for the integration of ancillary methods into various therapeutic concepts, and for therapeutic teamwork.
  • (8) One must not rely exclusively on the CT scan in questionable cases as with any other ancillary diagnostic acid and one must bear in mind that dysthyroid disease in evolution may exactly mimic the CT scan appearance of an intraorbital tumor.
  • (9) The measurements of feeding efficiency provides the basis for early identification of children who cannot be adequately nourished without ancillary feeding by nasogastric tube or by enterostomy.
  • (10) More serious problems resulted in requests for new studies having better controls, better management of ancillary therapy, more participants, or lasting longer.
  • (11) We construct a graphical model to combine a logistic regression disease model with models for the ancillary data and the risk-factor distribution in the population.
  • (12) With the exception of vasodilator activity the possession of any particular combinaton of ancillary pharmacological properties did not significantly influence the specific antihypertensive activity of these compounds.
  • (13) The immunosuppressive drugs methotrexate and azathioprine have been utilized as ancillary agents in life-threatening disease and in children whose disease could not be adequately controlled with prednisone alone.
  • (14) Debate over the current sources of financing reveals several troublesome issues: the presence of residents allegedly decreases the productivity of professionals and leads to overusage of ancillary services, proposed methods to pay for faculty salaries and services have created confusion and concern, and the financing of ambulatory-care training has been insufficient and poorly coordinated.
  • (15) A brief history of bioorganic mass spectrometry leading to the development of fast atom bombardment is presented, as well as a description of the method and ancillary techniques.
  • (16) In summary, we found that with appropriate case selection, ancillary studies performed on aspirated material can provide useful information in pediatric FNA cytology.
  • (17) The use of ancillary tools, such as ultrasound, requires only a slight modification of the previously established techniques for MA.
  • (18) Physical care is provided by a team of nurse-midwives, obstetricians, pediatricians, and ancillary health personnel.
  • (19) The frequency of mesoblastic nephroma (1%), of bilateral tumors (5%), and of incorrect preoperative diagnosis of Wilms' tumor (5%), the toxicities of the various regimens, and other ancillary data are presented and discussed.
  • (20) Recommendations are made for expansion of ancillary services, for postgraduate and refresher training, and for modifications in the legal and police system.

Auxiliary


Definition:

  • (a.) Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.
  • (n.) A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.
  • (n.) Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.
  • (sing.) A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in English; etre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish.
  • (sing.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We describe both the three supportive psychotherapeutic steps, which may last months to years including subsequent dynamically psychotherapeutic strategies as well as the reactions of the auxiliary therapist function on the students.
  • (2) The authors propose three regular procedures with which they are experienced: repair with a large retromuscular nonabsorbable synthetic tulle prosthesis for extensive epigastric eventrations, fillup aponeuroplasty using the sheath of the rectus abdominis associated with a premuscular patch in case of diastasis or of multiple superimposed orifices and suture associated with a small retromuscular auxiliary patch to treat small incisional hernias.
  • (3) We propose that exact definitions must be given for the auxiliary enzymes in the recommendations of standard determinations for enzyme activities.
  • (4) Consumers, dentists, dental students, dental assistants, dental hygienists, dental assistant trainees, and dental hygiene students in Massachusetts were surveyed for their attitudes toward the concept of expanded-duties auxiliaries.
  • (5) Replacing the dentist examination with a dental auxiliary conducted screening evaluation could lead to reduced time and costs.
  • (6) The developed apparatus included ultrasonic generators operating at a frequency of 0.5-3 MHz, piezoceramic radiators of various design providing the heating of an object with convergent, divergent and plane ultrasonic waves, thermoprobes in the form of single or multiple thermocouples with the bends from 5 points at a 5 mm distance from one another, temperature meters and various auxiliaries.
  • (7) Physical and technological parameters of carfecillin powder and carfecillin with auxiliary substances in the form of the powder mixture and granulate were studied comparatively.
  • (8) Chinese drugs constitute a unique medicinal system that features the following three subsystems: subsystem of medicinal substances consisting of traditional theories such as "four properties and five tastes of drugs" and "the principal, adjuvant, auxiliary and conduct ingredients in a prescription' , etc; subsystem of pharmacological actions comprising the theory of "ascending, descending, floating and sinking", etc; Subsystem of human body's functions incorporating the theory of "drugs to act on the channels".
  • (9) Training of Dental Auxiliaries in the United States Air Force is a highly structured process combining training in short formal courses at the School of Health Care Sciences with extended periods of formal on-the-job training and self-study correspondence courses conducted at bases throughout the Air Force.
  • (10) Our study was aimed at determining the validity of 99Tcm-HMPAO single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in the localization of the epileptogenic focus by correlating this diagnostic method with other auxiliary investigations such as surface EEG and X-ray transmission computed tomography (CT).
  • (11) Toward these ends, various devices and techniques have been developed, including several different types of vascular shunts in combination with or without extracorporeal oxygenation of blood, implantable auxiliary ventricle and augmentation of diastolic pressure by direct counter pulsation of blood through femoral cannulae or intra-aortic balloon.The sequenced counter pulsator is an external cardiac assist device being developed for the therapy of low output syndromes.
  • (12) Cyclin, also known as PCNA or the auxiliary protein of mammalian DNA polymerase delta, is a stable cell cycle regulated (synthesized mainly in S-phase) nuclear protein of apparent Mr 36,000 whose rate of synthesis correlates directly with the proliferative state of normal cultured cells and tissues.
  • (13) 117 people volunteered (37%); among them, nurses showed the highest participation (45.8%) in comparison with doctors, nursing auxiliaries and non-technical personnel (p less than 0.05).
  • (14) The data suggest that IL 2 receptors may play an auxiliary role in the B cell proliferative response and that IL 2 may exert its effect at a late phase in the B cell activation process.
  • (15) Thus, removal of calculi was possible only by an auxiliary manipulation and so it took more time.
  • (16) Each child was evaluated by 2 nurses and 2 auxiliaries.
  • (17) The venous part regulates the venous inflow volume by the feedback type mechanism; the arterial part ensures complete EC in the pulsating mode during cardiosurgical intervention and auxiliary EC in the course of heart activity recovery after cardioplegia, promoting an increase of the coronary blood flow and synchronized blood supply.
  • (18) The auxiliary protein is specific for DNA polymerase-delta; it has no effect on the activity of calf thymus DNA polymerase-alpha or the Klenow fragment of E. coli DNA polymerase I with primed homopolymer templates.
  • (19) Two alternate hypotheses are discussed (a) in which D is an auxiliary donor and (b) in which D is included in the main electron transfer chain.
  • (20) Auxiliary measures such as dilatation or dissection of the salivary duct were required only in patients with stones in the submandibular gland (20%).