What's the difference between cleansable and cleanse?
Cleansable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being cleansed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cast surface coated the nitrides had less clinging than uncoated one, and this indicated that its cleansability was improved.
(2) The described treatment permitted a maximum level of esthetics, function, and cleansability of the primary dentition, without compromising the permanent dentition.
Cleanse
Definition:
(v. t.) To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.
Example Sentences:
(1) The consequences for Syria have been multiple massacres, ethnic cleansing, torture, a humanitarian crisis and the risk of the country's breakup.
(2) Colonic cleansing was better with polyethylene glycol electrolyte lavage (90 percent optimal cleansing vs. 75 percent).
(3) In a cross-sectional study of 144 slaughterhouse workers, a cumulative prevalence of current and anamnestic cases of protein contact dermatitis of 22% was found, with the highest prevalence in workers eviscerating and cleansing gut.
(4) It is assumed that one function of grooming behaviour may be a merely cleansing one.
(5) The need to reappraise methods of reducing transient skin flora in 'hygienic' hand cleansing and the tests used for this purpose are discussed.
(6) The technique requires only three major steps: (1) decortication limited to the parietal sides of the peel's sac, (2) cleansing the empyemic cavity, and (3) drainage.
(7) The ingestion of Iso-Giuliani represents a safe, effective and well-accepted method of colon cleansing, and is our elective method of preparation for colonoscopy.
(9) Prolonged continuous proteolysis (for about 100 hours) of the caseous-necrotic content in an open cavern with the help of the enzyme reduces the term of full cleansing of an open cavern to 7-12 days.
(10) In others (such as the Homs region, where Assad's men have burned the property registry), the strategy looks like a more permanent ethnic cleansing.
(11) It is argued that consent by the patient to reuse dialyzers which have been mechanically cleansed is not required provided adequate standards of practice and safety are utilized.
(12) Decisions about how to cleanse a wound and which dressing to use are often complicated by unexpected changes in the patient's condition, or the sudden occurrence of a wound infection.
(13) It is recommended that incubator humidity is raised for babies under 30 weeks' gestation in the first days of life but meticulous attention should be paid to fluid balance, avoiding overheating, and cleansing of the humidifier reservoir.
(14) The majority of respondents (104 or 51 percent) used cathartics and enemas as the primary method of mechanical bowel cleansing.
(15) Surface hydrophobicity, surface electrokinetic potential and the ability to adhere to nitric-acid cleansed glass surfaces has been assessed throughout the growth, in batch culture, of Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus epidermidis.
(16) Skin type, season, and environmental conditions are factors to be considered when determining a proper cleansing regimen for the face.
(17) Two years ago, the United Nations tried to square the circle of avoiding wars between states while fulfilling its pledges to "us the peoples," by adopting the "right to protect", setting out the principle of humanitarian intervention in the case of "national authorities manifestly failing to protect their populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity".
(18) The same brushes were then compared against each other for their ability to remove artificial plaque in models of interproximal and facial surface cleansing effectiveness.
(19) They were then rebonded to the cleansed tooth surface and again subjected to a bond strength test.
(20) It was shown that collocyl as well as trypsin modified gauze and kapron accelerated cleansing the wounds of nonviable tissues, decreased their infectivity, reduced intoxication of the organism and improved the course of the wound process.