What's the difference between benefic and benefit?
Benefic
Definition:
(a.) Favorable; beneficent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The benefical effects of intra-aortic balloon pumping, used preoperatively in all patients, and associated myocardial revascularisation procedures performed in some of them are discussed.
(2) It may thus exert its benefical effect on ulcer healing.
(3) The benefic effect of leucine excess in protein turnover has also been raised.
(4) Field observations are reported which support an assumption that human breast milk acts benefically through induced host resistance to infection.
(5) changing the place of residence towards a healthy and benefical climate.
(6) They are contra-indicated if there is any evidence of circulating volume insufficiency but are benefical in many instances through improved peripheral perfusion of organs provided circulating volume is adequate, i.e., early in acute abdominal disease prior to development of circulatory insufficiency.
(7) One hundred and thirty patients over 70 years have been examined in a prospective way, so as to determine pernicious and benefic effects of hospitalization in elderly people.
(8) Benefic effects appear to be essentially dependent on primary diagnosis, and on the entourage, as well as on the previous medical care, though less important.
(9) While both the fall in VLDL and the rise in HDL may be benefical from the point of view of atherosclerosis the rise in LDL may be harmful.
(10) Also, a presynaptic inhibitory effect at the skeletal neuromuscular junction has been suggested to explain the benefical effect of propranolol and other beta-blockers in tremor.
(11) Satisfactory but time-limited insulin therapy of problematic diabetics is feasable and benefical.
(12) Two benefic actions of sunlight are reviewed: synthesis of vitamin D3 and positive action of visible radiations on human psychism.
(13) The benefic role of anti-B lymphocyte antibodies "Ia like" present at the time of grafting is then suggested.
(14) Only those patients on whom the mechanical problem is solved would be beneficed by neurosurgery.
(15) But on the other hand, a sedative action has not been considered as benefic in long-acting drugs, and we're still in need of an L.A.N.
(16) The glucocorticoid may also have a direct benefical effect on carbohydrate metabolism and cause the increased pyruvate neccesary to maintain the generation of energy-producing substrates.
(17) However, adrenalectomy abolished the benefical effect of training on working ability and myocardial adaptation to exertion.
(18) I do so, confident that I can always count on your full support and cooperation in the execution of the important mandate you have given me.” The president, who has led Zimbabwe since 1980, said the focus of his tenure would be on “issues of infrastructure, value addition and benefication, agriculture and climate change in the context of Africa’s development”.
(19) Capacitating this "reflex" in the containment of intricated arrhythmias with extrinsic involvement or in "educating" the benefic vagal prevalence upon the heart should observe these precisions.
(20) The benefical effect from a single course of androgen is likely to persist.
Benefit
Definition:
(n.) An act of kindness; a favor conferred.
(n.) Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit.
(n.) A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.
(v. t.) To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit.
(v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.
Example Sentences:
(1) Child benefit has already been withdrawn from higher rate taxpayers.
(2) A statement from the company said it had assigned all its assets for the benefit of creditors, in accordance with Massachusetts' law.
(3) Benefits increase with an individual's initial cholesterol level and decrease with the age at which an intervention is initiated.
(4) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(5) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
(6) I fear that I will have to go through another witch-hunt in order to apply for this benefit."
(7) Because they generally have to be positioned on hills to get the maximum benefits of the wind, some complain that they ruin the landscape.
(8) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
(9) In patients with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, although either sympathomimetic or anticholinergic therapy provides bronchodilatation, no further benefit could be demonstrated from combination therapy.
(10) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
(11) In France, there is still a meaningful connection between earnings, social contributions paid in, and benefit paid out.
(12) The value of benefit-risk, benefit-cost, and cost-effectiveness analyses lies not in providing the definitive basis for a decision on vaccine use or evaluation.
(13) The results indicate that the legislated increase in the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits beginning in the 21st century will have relatively small effects on the ages of retirement and benefit acceptance.
(14) The chancellor confirmed he would bring in a welfare cap of £119.5bn, with the state pension and unemployment benefits exempted from this.
(15) These data suggest that although the major effect of ALP is on the inhibition of the generation of the autoimmune response there appeared to be some therapeutic benefit at a later stage of acute disease.
(16) Acetylsalicylic acid has been shown to reduce significantly stroke, death and stroke-related death in men, with no detectable benefit for women.
(17) Some women have clinically obvious cervical incompetence and may benefit from a cerclage operation, but criteria for early diagnosis are not universally agreed upon.
(18) "If you are not prepared to learn English, your benefits will be cut," he said.
(19) Of course it is important to ensure shareholders enjoy the benefits of investing in the company, they are the owners.
(20) Considerations on costs and benefits demonstrate that the treatment of severely injured patients, who otherwise would die, results in a considerable social and economic saving (approximately 90 million Swiss francs for the 316 trauma patients analyzed).