What's the difference between anticipation and inefficacy?

Anticipation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
  • (n.) Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven.
  • (n.) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.
  • (n.) The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
  • (2) Several interpretations of the results are examined including the possibility that the effects of Valium use were short-lived rather than long-term and that Valium may have been taken in anticipation of anxiety rather than after its occurrence.
  • (3) However, a recrudescence in both psychotic and depressive symptoms developed as plasma desipramine levels rose 4 times higher than anticipated from the oral doses prescribed.
  • (4) However, the level of sequence identity between B. nodosus 351 pilin and pilin from strain 265 of serogroup H1 is lower than anticipated for strains within a serogroup and suggests that B. nodosus 265 and B. nodosus 351 should not be classified within the same serogroup.
  • (5) The morbidity is well known and if properly anticipated can be reduced to a minimum by judicious use of antibacterial agents and early surgical intervention when appropriate.
  • (6) The ceremony is the much-anticipated shop window for the Games, and Boyle was brought in to provide the creative vision.
  • (7) The survival time of the lambs was markedly shortened with the bubble oxygenator, although much longer than had been anticipated.
  • (8) Toxicity has been reported in the fetus of a woman ingesting a huge overdose of digitoxin; the same result would be anticipated with digoxin poisoning.
  • (9) Early diagnosis and exact resuscitation are the two most important aspects of a plan of treatment which anticipates the need for early surgery.
  • (10) Intraoperative anesthetic complications can be prevented or minimized if the anesthetist is able to anticipate such problems in the preanesthetic period.
  • (11) The concept of anticipation, the occurrence of a genetic disorder at progressively earlier ages in successive generations, has been debated from the early years of this century, with myotonic dystrophy as the most striking example.
  • (12) They anticipated the following scenario: a struggling club fires its manager and enjoys an immediate upsurge.
  • (13) Thorough knowledge of the modes of ventilatory support and criteria for weaning are essential for the critical care nurse to anticipate patient needs.
  • (14) We anticipate that Tyr34, whose hydroxyl group is only 5 A from the metal, is involved in the catalytic reaction.
  • (15) Adjustment of posterior arch width and dental alignment, using semi-rapid maxillary expansion by means of an upper removable appliance, to co-ordinate the anticipated positions for the arches.
  • (16) The observed degree of efficacy of amoxicillin prophylaxis and of tympanostomy tube insertion must be viewed in light of the fact that study subjects proved not to have been at as high risk for acute otitis media as had been anticipated and in view of the differential attrition rates.
  • (17) But the bill anticipates the outcome by seeking to widen government powers to enable more people to be given support in the form of direct payments, for services up to and including residential care.
  • (18) A high incidence of bacteremia and localized bacterial infection should be anticipated in patients with AIDS who receive interleukin-2.
  • (19) Computerized tomography before anticipated percutaneous stone extraction revealed the colon to be positioned posterior to the left portion of the horseshoe kidney.
  • (20) If radiation therapy is anticipated, completion of radical hysterectomy followed by radiation therapy appears to offer no advantage over radiation therapy with the uterus in place in patients with early-stage invasive cervical cancer and pelvic lymph node involvement.

Inefficacy


Definition:

  • (n.) Want of power to produce the desired or proper effect; inefficiency; ineffectualness; futility; uselessness; fruitlessness; as, the inefficacy of medicines or means.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Treatment was ineffective and stopped in 12 cases (24.5%); the inefficacy was primary in 6 and tachyphylactic in the other 6.
  • (2) of these substances, or -- more accurately -- to a nitrogen inefficacy that they could provoke.
  • (3) Failure are due to overall inefficacy, dropouts from treatment and intolerance.
  • (4) Before 1966, they were mainly due to the choice of inefficacious operations.
  • (5) The case of a 55-year-old woman with a duodenal ulcer developing since 6 months is reported, in whom the surgical indication was early established on the basis of increasing of suffering and inefficacy of the medical treatment.
  • (6) The self-inefficacious stressed subjects were able to withstand increasing amounts of pain stimulation under saline conditions.
  • (7) Thirteen patients had to discontinue the treatment: 6 in the placebo group (inefficacy: 3 cases, anemia: 1 case, epigastric pain: 1 case, rash: 1 case) and 7 cases in the SI group (inefficacy: 2 cases, nauseous: 3 cases, abdominal pain: 1 case, moderate elevation of transaminases: 1 case).
  • (8) -in the second case, poor indications for selective intubation of the left main bronchus by left upper lobectomy initially foreseen, whereas pneumonectomy was necessary, hypoventilation, anoxia, cardiac inefficacy.
  • (9) Partial success with a good clinical result was obtained in 4 cases and there were 7 failures, 6 due to inefficacy of the drug, and 1 because of an extracardiac secondary effect.
  • (10) These results point to a basic inefficacy in the antiestrogen-receptor complex; although it is able to promote early tissue responses characteristic of an estrogen, these cannot be sufficiently maintained.
  • (11) We also have proved that dura mater tubes are inefficacious.
  • (12) The inefficacy of testosterone was attributed to the death of motoneurons before they could re-establish synaptic contact with targets, thereby rendering target-derived trophic substances stimulated by testosterone unable to rescue motoneurons in a timely manner.
  • (13) When hyponatremia develops, it worsens the already present secondary hyperaldosteronism and makes therapy with spironolactone inefficacious.
  • (14) Three out of the remaining nine patients stopped the therapy after 3 months because of inefficacy.
  • (15) During the study the drug had to be discontinued in 32 patients: because of inefficacy in 10, side effects in 11, both in nine, and in two because of unrelated events.
  • (16) There was inefficacy for left cardiac function of normal being.
  • (17) If the same tissues were infected via sensory nerves, following zosteriform spread of the virus the same treatments showed strongly decreased efficacy, or were inefficacious, when started before development of clinical signs in the infected tissues.
  • (18) It is suggested that determination of AI is used as a highly sensitive and operative test for routine monitoring of the patient's intraoperative condition and express diagnosis of inefficacy of anesthesia.
  • (19) Amiodarone may cause a broad variety of arrhythmias that are complicated by their extended duration and difficulty in distinguishing proarrhythmia from simple inefficacy.
  • (20) In patients who did not respond to DPA therapy, not only was the duration of the disease longer, but also previous therapy with other slow acting antirheumatic agents had been stopped because of inefficacy.