What's the difference between beneficial and detrimental?

Beneficial


Definition:

  • (a.) Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed by to.
  • (a.) Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate.
  • (a.) King.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
  • (2) These results show that lipo-PGI2 at a very low dose would be beneficial as a treatment for relieving the clinical symptoms of chronic cerebral infarction and that lipid microspheres are a useful drug carrier for PGI2 analogue therapy.
  • (3) Cholestyramine resin was beneficial in reducing stool bulk but had no substantial effect on fat absorption.
  • (4) Inhibition of local thrombin formation by warfarin therapy could explain the beneficial effects of warfarin therapy in treating small cell carcinoma of the lung.
  • (5) Treatment with salbutamol inhalation had a beneficial effect on the duration of their adynamic attacks.
  • (6) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
  • (7) Bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS), which are important components of the cell wall of gram-negative bacteria, induce a number of host responses both beneficial and harmful.
  • (8) In short term clinical studies, the beneficial effects of transdermal estradiol on plasma gonadotrophins, maturation of the vaginal epithelium, metabolic parameters of bone resorption and menopausal symptoms (hot flushes, sleep disturbance, genitourinary discomfort and mood alteration) appear to be comparable to those of oral and subcutaneous estrogens, while the undesirable effects of oral estrogens on hepatic metabolism are avoided.
  • (9) These preliminary results suggest that IGIV may be more beneficial and less expensive than plasmapheresis in treatment of GBS.
  • (10) Even after injury to organs, LMWD infusion seems to be beneficial by significantly lowering leucocyte sequestration and could therefore be justified as an addition to the arsenal of interventions used in the treatment of endotoxemia.
  • (11) The Hindu belief system accommodates this by prescribing use in such a way that this effect becomes beneficial.
  • (12) This has been manageable, even beneficial to the economy when people slowly climbed the property ladder.
  • (13) The best yields occurred in a chemostat at the pH range of 3.5 to 4.5 and temperature of 30 C. A beneficial effect on Ys was observed when the dilution rate (D) was increased.
  • (14) However, administration of ATP complexed with MgCl2 increased tissue and mitochondrial Mg levels, tissue ATP stores and cellular functions and proved beneficial for the survival of animals.
  • (15) The beneficial effect of nicotine has been seen after both acute and chronic administration.
  • (16) Exercise tolerance was significantly increased 3 hours after each dose, when the maximal beneficial effect occurred.
  • (17) Several studies in the past have shown the long-term beneficial effects of beta-blockers in congestive heart failure.
  • (18) These results strongly suggest that the beneficial effect of beta blockers is related to a quantitative reduction in heart rate, probably indicating an antiischemic effect.
  • (19) Together, they dispel the myth that changing initial responses more often is detrimental than beneficial.
  • (20) Based on morphological, virological, biochemical and molecular biological data, it is proposed that the presence of endogenous retrovirus particles in the placental cytotrophoblasts of many mammals is indicative of some beneficial action provided by the virus in relation to cell fusion, syncytiotrophoblast formation and the creation of the placenta.

Detrimental


Definition:

  • (a.) Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Structurally altered polymorphic variants with reduced activity, such as tetrameric interface mutant Ile-58 to Thr, may produce not only an early selective advantage, through enhanced cytotoxicity of tumor necrosis factor for virus-infected cells, but also detrimental effects from increased mitochondrial oxidative damage, contributing to degenerative conditions, including diabetes, aging, and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
  • (2) Samaras said: A "Grexit", as it is called, would be devastating for Greece and detrimental to Europe.
  • (3) The striking improvements in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in diabetic and non-diabetic Aborigines after a temporary reversion to a traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle highlight the potentially reversible nature of the detrimental effects of lifestyle change, particularly in young people who have not yet developed diabetes.
  • (4) A murine model system was developed to determine whether ionizing radiation has a detrimental influence on thymic epithelium, cell function.
  • (5) The aim of this study was determine if functional adaptation of NHP and HB position to these detrimental conditions could be observed, using Bonferonni probabilities, in a cephalometric comparison of 38 SAS adults in the wakeful state and a control group of 38 healthy adults.
  • (6) Together, they dispel the myth that changing initial responses more often is detrimental than beneficial.
  • (7) Also, studies on the simulated cumulative effect of background radiation during storage failed to find any detrimental effect when embryos were exposed to the equivalent of about 2000 years of background radiation.
  • (8) The author then describes new approaches to improving the vocational integration of persons with epilepsy, by focussing on the one hand on extending the range of occupational assessment, and the adoption of new job placement assessment, and the adoption of new job placement strategies on the other, which concurrently seek to influence those factors that are detrimental to the occupational outlook of the person with a seizure disorder (notably frequent seizures, psychiatric problems, low educational levels, negative employer attitudes).
  • (9) The rationale for the inclusion of Mg in cardioplegic solutions therefore lies not in its cardioplegic properties, but in its ability to influence other cellular events such as the loss of Mg and K and perhaps to counter the detrimental effects of ischemia by antagonizing calcium (Ca) overload.
  • (10) Alternatively, increasing this ratio may permit embryos to reduce the concentration of a substance detrimental to their growth.
  • (11) Because NMDA receptor antagonists impede certain kinds of learning, and because motor recovery after sensorimotor cortex injury in the rat is dependent on post-lesion experience, we hypothesized that treatment with MK-801 after focal brain injury would be detrimental.
  • (12) Student participation in school-based suicide prevention programs, however, was associated with a detrimental effect on state teenage suicide rates.
  • (13) Aggressive or improper toothbrushing techniques may have a detrimental impact on the gingiva.
  • (14) On this basis we tried to change the milieu on a 26-bed therapeutic community ward which proved to have pseudo-groups and a detrimental ward atmosphere.
  • (15) In a pediatric critical care environment with skilled ongoing nursing care, the axillary artery can be used as a site for intraarterial monitoring in pediatric patients without a detrimental effect on concurrent or future blood pressure monitoring.
  • (16) These data suggest that sCR1 inhibits the Arthus reaction by interrupting the activation of the C cascade, hence limiting the detrimental immune complex-induced tissue damage in vivo.
  • (17) Unreasonable expectations and expansion of the health sector have spawned counterproductive effects which are to some extent detrimental to public health.
  • (18) Falls among hospitalized patients are common occurrences and can have detrimental effects on patient outcomes.
  • (19) Nylon drains are available in any operating room, and have no detrimental effects on the grafted skin.
  • (20) Focal cerebral ischemia initiates multiple detrimental effects in the brain.