What's the difference between corrective and counteract?

Corrective


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties.
  • (a.) Qualifying; limiting.
  • (n.) That which has the power of correcting, altering, or counteracting what is wrong or injurious; as, alkalies are correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct.
  • (n.) Limitation; restriction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
  • (2) Correction for within-person variation in urinary excretion increased this partial correlation coefficient between intake and excretion to 0.59 (95% CI = 0.03 to 0.87).
  • (3) The significance of minor increases in the serum creatinine level must be recognized, so that modifications of drug therapy can be made and correction of possibly life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be undertaken.
  • (4) On the basis of 180 interventions, they describe in detail the use of fibrin glue in myringo- and tympanoplasty for correct fixing of grafts.
  • (5) However it is important to recognize these cysts so that correct surgical management is offered to the patient.
  • (6) In the group of high myopia (over 20 D), the mean correction was 13.4 D. In the group with refraction between 0 and 6 D, 88% of the eyes treated had attained a correction between -1 and +1 D 3 months postoperatively.
  • (7) Cor triatriatum (CT) is a rare congenital defect, surgically correctable, and sometimes difficult to diagnose by cardiac catheterization.
  • (8) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
  • (9) The goals of treatment are the restoration of normal gut peristalsis and the correction of nutritional deficiencies.
  • (10) Four delayed going to a medical facility and six did not have hypotension corrected.
  • (11) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
  • (12) The time for 90% of this change in VelCO2 to occur (T90) was measured as an index of the rate of correction of body CO2 imbalance.
  • (13) If the latter is not readily correctable or if the patient is bleeding actively, anticoagulation with intermittent administration of heparin by the intravenous route is indicated.
  • (14) Of the 16 cases, 14 (88%) were diagnosed as TSS or probable TSS by the attending physician, although only nine (64%) of the 14 diagnosed cases were given the correct discharge code.
  • (15) The lower limit (LL) of CBF autoregulation was calculated by a computerized program and tested for different factors for correction of the PaCO2-induced changes in CBF.
  • (16) SD corrected high serum PTH and low serum testosterone (sT) levels, while pituitary hormones (LH, FSH, PRL) were elevated and did not change.
  • (17) 3) The first who presumed an independent state of these microorganisms, was Kohlert (1968), from the work of which the epithet for correct name, i.e.
  • (18) On the other hand, if we correct for the population of HMM with degraded light chain 2, the difference in the binding constants in the presence and absence of Ca2+ may be as great as 5-fold.
  • (19) Rachitic bone lesions were only partially corrected by the high-Ca diet.
  • (20) Cytosolic-to-mitochondrial ratios from maximal initial rates after correction for mitochondrial breakage were increased above controls in diabetic hearts for nucleoside diphosphokinase and aspartate aminotransferase.

Counteract


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
  • (2) Conversely, rat galanin increased unstimulated glucagon output (approximately 20%, P less than 0.05), potentiated the glucagon response to arginine (approximately 50%, P less than 0.05) and VIP (approximately 90%, P less than 0.05), and counteracted the suppressor effect of glucose on alpha-cell secretion.
  • (3) This inhibition is counteracted by the somewhat slower increase of NE turnover resulting in normalization of LH levels.
  • (4) These results suggest that CPZ interacts with smg p21B, smg GDS, or both, and thereby inhibits the smg GDS action, and that CPZ also interacts with the acidic phospholipids and thereby counteracts their inhibitory effect on the smg GDS action.
  • (5) Extracts from arrested cells counteracted the stimulating effects of extracts from proliferating cells with kinetics suggesting competitive interaction between stimulating and inhibitory factors.
  • (6) Acetylcholine increases their turnover, Atropine reduces it, and the addition of atropine counteracts the effect of acetylcholine in all these phospholipids.
  • (7) Whether they affect ureteral motility in vivo or whether they can counteract ureteral spasm associated with ureteral stones have not been established.
  • (8) Metoclopramide did not counteract the apomorphine effect and, in higher doses, water intake was even further reduced.
  • (9) This effect increases with the estrogen dose and is counteracted more effectively by androgenic progestogens such as levonorgestrel than by nonandrogenic progestogens such as desogestrel.
  • (10) PGE2 counteracted the NA-effect in the former group of patients but did not affect the influence of NA at term.
  • (11) Addition of heme in vitro (10(-6)M) to the latter nuclei results in a significant counteraction of the decreased cytochrome P-450 (c + d) mRNA transcription.
  • (12) Two functions of these have been proposed: 1) that they are compatible osmolytes which regulate cell volume (against high external NaCl) without inhibiting proteins and 2) that methylamines (GPC and betaine) are counteracting osmolytes which stabilize proteins against perturbation from high renal urea.
  • (13) For this rather large pressures (about 700 hPa) are required to overcome the surface forces counteracting droplet formation.
  • (14) The drop in the blood-sugar levels was counteracted by corresponding infusions of glucose by the BIOSTATOR via a special clamp technique.
  • (15) In the wild strain (Em 5297a) thiourea is tenfold more toxic on an allantoin medium than on an inorganic nitrogen medium; allantoin as well as urea counteract thiourea toxicity in the allantoin nitrogen medium.
  • (16) Retinal traction can be counteracted by the oil up to a calculated threshold value, depending on the size and shape of the tear, the strength of the surface tension and, most importantly, the distance between the retina and choroid.
  • (17) Some of the changes found may be a result of adaptive mechanisms occurring in order to counteract the different biophysical effects of ethanol.
  • (18) This study evaluates whether suturing of replaced flaps with crown-attached sutures, following reconstructive surgery, counteracts postoperative recession of the gingival margins and facilitates new attachment.
  • (19) In the present article is shown that the histamine releasing effect is counteracted by the addition of histamine to the superfusion fluid.
  • (20) This barrier effect was partially counteracted by monensin or carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone.