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Benefice


Definition:

  • (n.) A favor or benefit.
  • (n.) An estate in lands; a fief.
  • (n.) An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson.
  • (v. t.) To endow with a benefice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Prenatal informed consent for sonogram, a primarily autonomy-based indication, should be given the same weight in clinical judgment and practice as the beneficence-based indications listed by the National Institutes of Health consensus panel.
  • (2) We discuss the benefice of a such therapeutic option in the true hermaphroditism lately diagnosed recording to organic and psychological data.
  • (3) Then, acting on a refusal of treatment would amount to acting on unreliable clinical judgment, justifying the physician's resisting the patient's exercising a positive right when fulfilling that positive right contradicts the most highly reliable clinical judgment, dooms the beneficence-based interests of the fetus, and virtually dooms the beneficence-based interests of the pregnant woman.
  • (4) Therapy appeared beneficent in half of the cases, but only one patient was markedly improved.
  • (5) The ethical problems for 3 groups of agents (informants and other relatives, including the deceased; the researcher; and the research) are discussed according to 3 basic ethical principles (nonmaleficence, beneficence and respect for autonomy).
  • (6) Because humans are the subjects in clinical research, this area of scientific study must operate within the limits dictated by such basic principles as individual autonomy, justice, and beneficence.
  • (7) We can see from the examples discussed that there are many instances where principles, guidelines, rules or laws propounded for the benefit of one party may restrain autonomy, beneficence and justice done to another.
  • (8) The choice of when and how to use behavioral interventions and the implications of these choices may present the nurse with certain ethical dilemmas related to ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, and maleficence.
  • (9) In a previous essay I criticized Engelhardt's libertarian conception of justice, which grounds the view that society's obligation to assure access to adequate health care for all is a matter of beneficence.
  • (10) When consideration is given to the underlying principles of autonomy and beneficence, a case can be made for weak paternalistic interventions with persons of diminished capacity who are clearly endangered and in whom the conduct involved is substantially nonvoluntary.
  • (11) Thanks to the beneficence of its owner he and his allies have recently moved into a derelict 19th-century sea fort on the tiny island of Stack Rock, taking with them camping supplies and generators.
  • (12) Up until now, it's mostly shown off the times when it's done so with beneficent aims: promoting organ donors, or voters.
  • (13) When there are no beneficence-based obligations to the fetus, the physician should recommend only termination of pregnancy or nonaggressive management.
  • (14) The question of beneficence and non-maleficence must first be related to the individual and only second to the society.
  • (15) A beneficence-based construal would yield a much weaker obligation with respect to the distribution of health care.
  • (16) To allocate resources ethically under the Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) system of reimbursement, it will not be sufficient to appeal to traditional patient-centered principles such as individual beneficence and autonomy.
  • (17) After this evidence has been collected, moral issues of altruism and beneficence can be balanced against the possible detriment to both patient and health care provider, with the highest priority given to the patient's concerns.
  • (18) Consumers and providers of ECMO services must continue to examine and debate these issues in a reasoned, deliberate fashion and construct the necessary procedural safeguards that will ensure beneficent and just delivery of these services.
  • (19) In the absence of an acceptable way to give consistent moral priority to any of the criteria, he concludes, practical systems should be set up to resolve conflicts by taking into account the fundamental moral values of respect for autonomy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence while incorporating Aristotle's formal principle of justice.
  • (20) But the rise of a racist far right across Europe is more than just a predictable cost of an overwhelmingly beneficent change.

Beneficed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Benefice
  • (a.) Possessed of a benefice or church preferment.

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.

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