What's the difference between capacitate and incapacitate?
Capacitate
Definition:
(v. t.) To render capable; to enable; to qualify.
Example Sentences:
(1) The maximum amplitude of the inward Na+ current, normalized by cell capacitance, is about sixfold larger, on the average, in LP lactotropes than in SP lactotropes.
(2) On the assumption of a distribution in properties of the suspension according to the theory of Bruggeman, the capacitance is calculated to have a value of about one half this.5.
(3) The object of these studies was to investigate whether destruction of the renal medulla in normal rats would alter vascular capacitance.
(4) In three experiments with semen samples from a single individual capacitated at 4 degrees C for 1, 2 or 3 days in TEST-Yolk buffer we obtained 33, 30 and 34 sperm karyotypes respectively.
(5) Further, resistance vessels were much more sensitive to these drugs than capacitance vessels.
(6) The magnitude of vascular capacitance change induced by hypercapnia, hypoxia, or hypoxic hypercapnia was estimated during the administration of experimental gas mixtures to anesthetized dogs for 25 min.
(7) This could be explained on the basis of the effects of acidosis on the blood capacitances for O2 and for CO2.
(8) Hyperthermia was administered locally or regionally with radio frequency capacitive heating equipment after irradiation (total dose, 20-70.2 Gy) for 40-60 minutes per session in a total of four to 13 sessions.
(9) When the capacitation medium was supplemented with follicular fluid, the [3H]sterols were bound to HDL's and to the albumin fraction; when the latter fraction was analysed by molecular sieve chromatography, 60-70% of the radioactivity eluted in fractions with a mean molecular weight corresponding to that of human serum albumin.
(10) The current deltaV (control) associated with a positive voltage step from a hyperpolarized conditioning voltage to the holding potential, -80 mV, showed two components, a capacitative transient which decayed rapidly and a maintained steady level...
(11) Whether these two sera specifically affect sperm-zona pellucida binding or non-specifically affect the normal progression of capacitation remains to be eludicated.
(12) If two purely conductive media are separated by a resistance-capacitance membrane, then Laplace's equation describes the potential in either medium, and two boundary equations relate the transmembrane potential to applied currents and to currents flowing into the membrane from each medium.
(13) With increasing of the drug concentration by one order there was observed more than a 10-fold drop in the membrane resistance while the electric capacitance actually remained unchanged.
(14) The antigen is absent at the rostral tip of non-capacitated spermatozoa, but forms clusters over the principal segment and the equatorial segment after induction of capacitation.
(15) Hypercapnic stimulation of the brain may account for some of the decrease in vascular capacitance (venoconstriction) seen with whole-body hypercapnia.
(16) In normal fibres in normal Ringer 3-chloro-2,5,6-trimethylbenzoic acid; 5,6-dihydro-5,5-dimethyl-7-carboxybenz[c]acridine; phenanthrene-9-carboxylic acid; and anthracene-9-carboxylic acid at 10(-5)-10(-4)M decreased membrane conductance without consistently changing diameter or capacitance.
(17) The responses of the nasal capacitance vessels of the cat were recorded following intra-arterial injections of beta-adrenoceptor agonists and histamine H1-and H2-receptor agonists.
(18) Treatment with recombinant human TNF-alpha (rhTNF) for 24 to 72 hr produces (i) process retraction in some but not all OLGs, (ii) a reduction in the resting membrane potential with no significant change in membrane capacitance or input resistance over control cells and (iii) a decrease in the expression of both the inwardly rectifying and outward K+ current.
(19) Two oocytes with capacitated spermatozoa were placed into the tube of patient 1, four cells into one tube of the second patient, and two cells into each tube of the third patient.
(20) To determine limb haemodynamic effects, we measured calf blood flow and venous capacitance by venous occlusion plethysmography before and after oral labetalol in 10 patients 3-7 days following coronary bypass surgery.
Incapacitate
Definition:
(v. t.) To deprive of capacity or natural power; to disable; to render incapable or unfit; to disqualify; as, his age incapacitated him for war.
(v. t.) To deprive of legal or constitutional requisites, or of ability or competency for the performance of certain civil acts; to disqualify.
Example Sentences:
(1) The CCK 8-induced analgesia or hyperalgesia was not seen in the tail flick test and was not associated with motor incapacitation or any other noticeable side effects.
(2) Although most of the cognitive symptoms were mild to moderate in severity, they were incapacitating to these individuals in their usual work.
(3) Recent progress in producing pharmacologic defenses suggests that humans can be largely protected from the lethal and prolonged incapacitating effects of these compounds on a chemical battlefield.
(4) At the time of the operation all patients were socially incapacitated by their epilepsy; this was most pronounced in males, of whom 30 per cent were institutionalized and 32 per cent were receiving disablement pension; at follow-up the figures were 6 per cent and 52 per cent, respectively.
(5) He believed that, even if Monis was paralysed, the explosive may have been connected to a “dead man’s switch” which would automatically detonate the bomb if the operator becomes incapacitated.
(6) It is characterized by remissions and is usually not incapacitating.
(7) Police officers in the US are trained to shoot to kill, not incapacitate.
(8) The number of patients disabled and their degree of disability seems to justifiy surgical treatment in patients with frequent and incapacitating attacks of vertigo.
(9) This suggests that such a pretreatment combination may prove very efficacious against soman-induced lethality and incapacitation in higher species.
(10) Associated with colonization were bladder incontinence, deteriorating or terminal clinical status, inability to walk or perform activities of daily living and incapacitation due to neoplastic, respiratory and cardiac disease (P less than 0.05).
(11) The relative lack of incapacitating side-effects of phenothiazines should provide an attractive change for the clinical oncologist.
(12) Barnes said Monis knew what he was doing and was not incapacitated by a psychiatric condition.
(13) The patient (Joyce) was a young mother whose very severe eczema and asthma were accompanied by an incapacitating depression.
(14) The authors stress the frequent bilateralisation of the disease and the need to reserve vestibular neurectomy for cases of longstanding incapacitating vertigo, resistant to all other treatment, as well as the value of surgery on the endolymphatic surgery provided that the criteria of indication are complied with.
(15) Two Chinese populations over age 15 were surveyed as to the point prevalence of "incapacitating" headaches in an urban population of 1,525 persons and a rural one of 1,203.
(16) Intracerebroventricular injection of the moderate dose reliably reduced frequency of pinning while the higher dose was severely incapacitating and the low dose was without effect.
(17) Their refusal to condemn him reinforces myths and misinformation about rape – they don't seem to understand that the law is very clear that if someone is too drunk or otherwise incapacitated to consent, it is rape."
(18) Transfection of protoplasts with low (2 micrograms) amounts of delta 5'RNA-2, together with transcripts of wild-type RNA-1 and -3, not only incapacitated the replication of RNA-2 but also significantly interfered in trans with the synthesis and accumulation of the other viral RNAs.
(19) But at this moment of the final parting, my heart is heavy with sorrow and grief.” On death: “There is an end to everything and I want mine to come as quickly and painlessly as possible, not with me incapacitated, half in coma in bed and with a tube going into my nostrils and down to my stomach.” “Even from my sickbed, even if you are going to lower me to the grave and I feel that something is going wrong, I will get up.
(20) Sudden cardiac incapacitation occurring during critically stressful circumstances in men engaged in a variety of occupations may compromise public safety.