What's the difference between beneficiary and pernicious?

Beneficiary


Definition:

  • (a.) Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession.
  • (a.) Bestowed as a gratuity; as, beneficiary gifts.
  • (n.) A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds.
  • (n.) One who receives anything as a gift; one who receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ukip and the Greens are beneficiaries of this new political reality – as, arguably, is the SNP as it prepares to invade Labour’s heartland in Scotland next May.
  • (2) However, rates were generally higher than those of Kaiser-Permanente (northern California) enrollees, despite the high use of hospital care by beneficiaries outside of the Military System.
  • (3) When you design something for a “beneficiary”, it may seem okay not to involve them centrally in the process.
  • (4) Otherwise, the far right will be the main beneficiary.
  • (5) The beneficiaries in students families had better, attendance and immunizational coverage, more weight gain and less episodes of illness.
  • (6) In the case of a No vote, they will be the big beneficiary.” Formed only seven years ago, Five Star has become one of Europe’s biggest populist organisations and is now the main opposition in Italy.
  • (7) Make no mistake about who the chief beneficiaries are.
  • (8) So, if you care about the service and the beneficiaries, you’ll probably have to put the hours in.
  • (9) This year, the main beneficiaries appear to be Salmon Fishing in the Yemen , which has three nominations, including for its two leads Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which scored two, including its lead Judi Dench.
  • (10) Two interview surveys were conducted with AFDC and HR (general assistance) Medicaid eligibles, the first under the fee-for-service system servicing the Medicaid population, and the second 18 months after the introduction of a mandatory, prepaid managed care system for Medicaid beneficiaries.
  • (11) Gingrich, the latest beneficiary of Adelson's goodwill, suddenly has an outside chance of becoming president.
  • (12) Our aim must be to ensure by our investment that hard working families are the beneficiaries of this era of global economic change.
  • (13) Putin giving money to a company when the beneficiary is his child’s partner is a classic conflict of interest.
  • (14) The insider added that News International is said to be particularly keen to rapidly launch an assault on the Sunday Mirror – one of the biggest beneficiaries of the News of the World's closure – on the basis that the longer it is out of the Sunday market, the more difficult it will be to break readers' loyalty to other titles.
  • (15) While we have long moved past those days, what has survived in the world of global development is the treatment of clients as “beneficiaries”, not consumers.
  • (16) Sheffield, the beneficiary of a promised South Yorkshire stop, may have to make do with a station on the fringes at the Meadowhall shopping centre.
  • (17) Norton told Guardian Australia the beneficiaries of the existing arrangement were “the children of educated people”.
  • (18) In the short run, the use of community-based mental health treatment programs need not be affected by enrollment of Medicaid beneficiaries in prepaid plans, providing that Medicaid program administrators take steps to minimize the disruption of ongoing treatment, offer beneficiaries a choice among prepaid plans, and encourage community treatment programs to contract with plans to serve beneficiaries.
  • (19) This paper examines ambulatory utilization in a preferred provider organization (PPO) for Uniformed Services beneficiaries at Pacific Medical Center (PMC) in Seattle.
  • (20) However, the Co-op has also said that, even if it does manage to talk to them, it cannot ask for the money back if the beneficiary says they were expecting the money and it is theirs.

Pernicious


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.
  • (a.) Quick; swift (to burn).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To investigate the possibility that an abnormality of gastric emptying exists in duodenal ulcer and to determine if such an abnormality persists after ulcer healing, scintigraphic gastric emptying measurements were undertaken in 16 duodenal ulcer patients before, during, and after therapy with cimetidine; in 12 patients with pernicious anemia, and in 12 control subjects.
  • (2) Urinary excretion of (60)Co radioactivity in pernicious anemia patients after oral administration of (60)Co-vitamin B(12) bound to freshly prepared (125)I-labeled IF was similar to that obtained with noniodinated intrinsic factor.
  • (3) Antibodies to parietal cells were found in 5 cases and 4 patients with pernicious anemia were detected.
  • (4) Reticulocytes of patients with pernicious anaemia on treatment and with haemolytic anaemia were shown to have higher folate levels than their corresponding mature cells.
  • (5) Immunofluorescence tests on 94 human sera reacting with rat gastric parietal cells revealed that 41 (44%) of the sera contained antibody to a rat parietal cell antigen that was distinct from the pernicious anaemia autoantigen.
  • (6) In pernicious anaemia the amount of enzyme is reduced and on this hypothesis the regulatory function impaired.
  • (7) Six patients without nervous system involvement had normal EEGs, 10 patients with spinal cord or peripheral nervous system involvement had normal or minimally abnormal EEGs, 17 of 19 patients with evidence of mental dysfunction had abnormal EEGs with the most consistent finding being an excess of theta slowing, and 19 patients with pernicious anemia and other neurologic diseases showed EEG findings reflecting the complicating disease process.
  • (8) This article details the pernicious odontostomatological effects provoked by antitumorous and immunosuppressive medication.
  • (9) This week, the resilience of Italy’s most pernicious problem – the mafia – was exposed once again when it was announced that Corleone’s town council was being dissolved by the order of Rome because it had been infiltrated by organised crime.
  • (10) Thus the Type A pattern of gastritis (autoimmune) seen in patients with pernicious anaemia is only rarely associated with Campylobacter like organisms.
  • (11) Thus, the processing of progastrin adjacent to the active site of gastrin is more restrictively controlled than N-terminal processing during G-cell hypersecretion associated with pernicious anemia.
  • (12) The early improvement in marrow morphology in patients with pernicious anaemia was greater with 1000 mug than with 5 mug doses of cyanocobalamin.
  • (13) They were found to have pernicious anemia (PA) and normal adrenal functions.
  • (14) The EEG was also a good indicator for detecting and confirming other intracranial disease processes unrelated to pernicious anemia.
  • (15) The endocrine tumours corresponded to the gastric carcinoids found in patients with long-lasting hypergastrinaemia due to pernicious anaemia or with a gastrinoma as part of the MEN I syndrome.
  • (16) Two vitiligo patients were hypergastrinaemic suggesting latent pernicious anaemia.
  • (17) 27 patients with pernicious anaemia, followed for a long period, were consecutively treated with three different vitamin B12 preparations, while during intervening period no therapy was given until signs of B12 deficiency developed.
  • (18) Sixteen control subjects, 13 patients with pernicious anaemia, and four who had had total gastrectomy were studied.
  • (19) And so while it’s particularly pernicious that some parents pay for months, sometimes years, of tutoring to get their child through an exam that they might well otherwise fail, I know it’s because they are desperate to secure for their child any extra benefit going in a country that is becoming ever more unequal.
  • (20) This policy, which prevents many travellers and overseas residents from benefitting from one of the most effective prophylactic treatments on the market today, thereby indirectly causing a number of pernicious cases of malaria, is based on the unfounded, unproved premise that wide use of this drug would foster the development of méfloquine-resistance or on side-effects, which are in fact rarely of any consequence and always curable.