What's the difference between attain and reattain?
Attain
Definition:
(v. t.) To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.
(v. t.) To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire.
(v. t.) To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.
(v. t.) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
(v. t.) To overtake.
(v. t.) To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
(v. i.) To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.
(v. i.) To come or arrive, by an effort of mind.
(n.) Attainment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
(2) In the group of high myopia (over 20 D), the mean correction was 13.4 D. In the group with refraction between 0 and 6 D, 88% of the eyes treated had attained a correction between -1 and +1 D 3 months postoperatively.
(3) Seven patients were treated with combination chemotherapy, consisting of CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone) or MOPP (chloromethine, vincristine, procarbazine, prednisone), in some cases followed by non-cross-resistant second line chemotherapy, if no complete response was attained.
(4) Radioactivity attained in different tissues at different times after a single intraperitoneal injection of 3H-gentamicin into male rats was determined using scintillation counting.
(5) When cultures were pulse labeled for 15 min and then incubated under chase conditions for 105 min, the amount of degraded collagen attained a value equal to approximately 20% of the amount synthesized during the labeling period; the data were fit with a simple exponential function that had a 40-min rise time and a 12-min lag time.
(6) The amount of 15N incorporated into the proteins in 1 litre plasma attained up to 3% of the given dose.
(7) In males, the percentage of animals having mucous cells increased with sexual maturation and attained 100 per cent at age six months.
(8) The mechanism by which such high levels were attained was primrily a combination of arterial hypoxia and a high carbon monoxide yield from tobacco.
(9) However, when it has attained a length of about half the cell body diameter, it becomes SUP GLU+ and 6-11B-1+.
(10) One patient attained a complete response, two a partial response, and two showed progressive disease.
(11) Dose adjustment using 24-hour levels was well tolerated and should help to attain a more rapid response to antidepressant treatment.
(12) In contrast, T lymphocyte cytolytic activity developed more slowly in regressing sarcomas and attained peak levels coincident with the beginning of tumor regression.
(13) Experimental photogenic epilepsy attained by creating GPIE in the EGB with the aid of TT, is proposed as a model for studying the mechanism of epileptogenesis and testing the efficacy of anticonvulsive drugs.
(14) The surgical approach used for each type of complication is discussed, underlining the end-result to be attained in relation to the patient's future.
(15) In particular, poorly differentiated carcinomas at this site should be treated as germ cell tumors, and so long-term survival will be attainable.
(16) ODC attained maximum activity in controls on day 11, increasing by more than an order of magnitude above the activity found on day 9.
(17) As many as 25 turnovers of the transport cycle per monomer can occur prior to attainment of steady state.
(18) Nearly 30% of students scored A or A*, whereas across the UK only 26% attained these grades.
(19) During well-coordinated neurological and psychiatric treatment the laughing seizures (spontaneous, event-related, psychogenic) decreased and a considerable improvement in psychiatric and psychosocial problems was attained.
(20) An arrest of a depressive syndrome in manic-depressive psychosis in old age can be attained by an introduction of 150-200 mg of azafen daily.
Reattain
Definition:
(v. t.) To attain again.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the recovery from sustained anoxia (60 minutes), cooling facilitated reattainment of tension development and reduction in contracture tension.
(2) We conclude that incomplete reinnervation of free muscle grafts may be a factor in the failure of such grafts to reattain the mass of control muscles.
(3) However, there were some savings in reattaining the learning criterion with the second eye.
(4) These results demonstrate that: (1) the duration of HFD feeding is an important factor in the reversibility of the obese state; (2) sustained HFD feeding produces an obese state that is defended more by a greater restoration of carcass energy during refeeding than by a preservation of carcass energy during food restriction; (3) sustained obesity appears to produce some reductions in energy requirements; (4) even a brief period of obesity may leave the rats prone to reattain an obese state when body weight is challenged.
(5) The changes in volume of the irradiated metastases were followed at least until the metastases reattained their initial volume.
(6) A remineralization of the alveolar bone followed towards the presurgical level, which was reattained after four to six months.
(7) The infused bicarbonate was lost to the ambient water, and pre-infusion levels of bicarbonate were reattained within 24 h. Repetition of the infusion did not result in a notable improvement of the acid-base status.
(8) Nine to 14 days after conclusion of treatment, the Enterobacteriaceae had almost reattained their original numbers.
(9) Partial (99%) pancreatectomy resulted in almost immediate enlargement of the splenic remnant, immediate decreases in both plasma IRI and IRAPP, both of which subsequently reattained normal levels (IRI in 4 days and IRAPP in 16 days).
(10) Portacaval shunted rats fed a cereal-based diet required a longer period of time (14 days) to reattain preoperative body weights when compared to portacaval shunted rats fed a purified diet (7 days).
(11) Before the FSIGt, insulin and glucagon were infused intraportally to reattain basal glycemia.
(12) On the contrary, the group with areas 17, 18 and 19 lesions showed a substantial postoperative loss of all discriminations, and especially for the more difficult form discriminations, the reattainment of a significant level of performance was hard or impossible within the allotted number of trials.
(13) Phentolamine (alpha-adrenergic antagonist) increased the number of trials to reattain criterion in the CON group, had no effect in the MSGx group, and markedly improved performance in the MS group.
(14) When voltage-clamp pulses were resumed (at 0.5 Hz) after a period of rest, several pulses were required to reattain steady-state peak ICa levels.
(15) Stable values above 20 mmHg were reattained 4 h postoperatively.
(16) When tested for retention 28 days later, a significant memory impairment was again observed in terms of trials required to reattain the avoidance criterion as well as in total percent avoidance responding.
(17) Phagocytic and bactericidal functions of BAL cells improved rapidly during the 1st postnatal wk, then declined, and did not reattain adult levels until day 180.
(18) Lipoprotein lipase is thus not a large contributor to the peripartum bovine adipose adaptation but is important in reattainment of body composition in mid and late lactation.
(19) After demonstrating the decrease in total AN (primarily ATP) levels within the thymocytes of aged mice, we attempted to reattain the levels of younger thymocytes by the administration of various thymic hormones.
(20) Upon renewal of the THC doses, the animals reattained their earlier preformance.