What's the difference between contributary and contributory?
Contributary
Definition:
(a.) Contributory.
(a.) Tributary; contributing.
Example Sentences:
(1) For intrahepatic postsinusoidal block of cirrhosis of the liver the portal vein and its major contributaries must be shown.
(2) The present obligation to notify according to the burial laws of some states applies to pathologists even when possible medical contributary faults are established, but he faces a dilemma which cannot be solved juridically at present.
(3) We are proposing that bladder infarction may be the common denominator for all the contributary etiological factors, which include the following: long-term indwelling catheter, alcohol, medication such as bethanechol or methamphetamine, and weakening of the bladder wall as from a neuropathic bladder, a pseudodiverticulum, a chronic infection or a combination of these factors.
(4) However, the rest of the tumor markers studied (AFP, PNA and WGA) were found to be non contributary.
(5) For a reliable diagnostic visualization of portal vein contributaries and branches, a blood iodine concentration of 30 mg per ml appears required; whereas for the visualization of the larger portal vein, 15 mg per ml appears sufficient.
(6) Failure to use safety belts and the lack of suitable anchorage points were contributary factors in all 20 patients.
(7) Determination of wide cranial sutures may be contributary in establishing the diagnosis of psychosocial dwarfism.
(8) An adequate thymoleptic medication suitable for the main symptoms, incorporating socio- and psychotherapeutic methods for the contributary neurotic determinants, can however achieve an involution of the somatic and emotional symptoms of the vital irritation.
(9) Should a similar decline occur in human lenses then the changes which we have detected may be important contributary factors towards cataractogenesis.
(10) Children with epilepsy, as a group, are at special risk of developing learning and behavioural problems, but many individual biological and environmental factors are contributary.
Contributory
Definition:
(a.) Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive.
(n.) One who contributes, or is liable to be called upon to contribute, as toward the discharge of a common indebtedness.
Example Sentences:
(1) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(2) It is suggested that reduced immunocompetence is the likely mechanism in this case and may also be a contributory factor in those cases which have been ascribed to the use of alkylating agents or radiation.
(3) Each is a failure by the state to protect the young people concerned, made all the greater because the same criticisms have occurred time and time again.” Harris said his review found that understaffing was a contributory issue.
(4) Nine factors have been isolated whose varying combinations were most contributory to the risk of the development of CS in the studied population: cardiac diseases, transient disorder of the cerebral circulation, arterial hypertension, atherosclerosis, aggravated heredity for cardiovascular diseases, intermittent claudication, diabetes mellitus, systematic alcohol abuse, and hypodynamia.
(5) This case implies the significance of detecting diabetes mellitus as a contributory factor for labial adhesions.
(6) The adaptation to the increased activities of the survived muscles and motoneurons might be contributory to the transformation, which is already known to occur in normal subjects during the endurance training.
(7) We have shown that the major contributory factor to the inhibitory effect of sera from patients with Hodgkin's disease (HD) could be the soluble form of Interleukin-2 receptors (sIL-2R).
(8) In addition, it proposes a modification of the standard dural closure that may reduce the incidence of contributory adhesive arachnoiditis by the creation of a capacious cerebrospinal fluid space about the neural plaque.
(9) Indeed, the largest single welfare savings measure so far introduced by this government was the time-limiting of contributory employment and support allowance, which will save £2bn per year and in effect means the end of the largest remaining part of the working-age benefit system that could meaningfully be described as contributions-based.
(10) The differences in left ventricular remodeling and changes in function between patients with aortic stenosis and aortic regurgitation in the early postoperative period most probably relates to the major difference in intraoperative reduction in afterload, although a contributory role may have been played by the preoperative left ventricular dysfunction in those with aortic regurgitation that was underestimated by measurement of ejection fraction.
(11) This is the first study to demonstrate an effector T cell response to CT. A role for T cell reactions in the intestinal mucosa must now be examined as a potential contributory mechanism in the prevention of choleraic diarrhoea.
(12) The former soldiers we spoke to, and their families, fear a report that will understate combat-related PTSD as a contributory factor.
(13) Differences in thrombogenicity between cuprophane and silicone rubber as well as different flow characteristics in the two situations were probably contributory.
(14) Although the patient had had previous abdominal surgery, she had no adhesions that were considered contributory to the obstructive process at surgery; the deflated bubble did not deflate enough to traverse the distal ileum.
(15) A contributory role of the 10.5-kb allele in genetic IDDM susceptibility was supported by the sibpair analysis, in which all were TNF-beta identical.
(16) We hypothesized that bingeing and vomiting behavior could be contributory because food consumption in healthy volunteers increases plasma cortisol and prolactin secretion and suppresses growth hormone secretion.
(17) Furthermore, these data might implicate increased local bowel blood flow as a contributory factor to the poorer long-term prognosis found in patients with large-bowel cancer presenting with intestinal obstruction.
(18) Although these differences remained after adjustment for a number of important variables, it is possible that factors not measured in the present study, e.g., economic status and occupation, played a contributory role.
(19) If the tested diuretics were subdivided into two groups according to their different modes of action, where furosemide, ethacrynic acid and amiloride represent sodium transport inhibitors, and acetazolamide, hydrochlorothiazide and chlorthalidone (contributory action of the two latter) are inhibitors of carbanhydrase, the highest correlation coefficient (r = 0.96) between reduction of shell thickness and egg production was found for sodium transport inhibitors.
(20) Thus, while consistent with VIP being a contributory agent to the secretion of pancreatic cholera, the data do not support the notion that pancreatic polypeptide might be a causative agent in this syndrome.