What's the difference between corrigible and docile?

Corrigible


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault.
  • (a.) Submissive to correction; docile.
  • (a.) Deserving chastisement; punishable.
  • (a.) Having power to correct; corrective.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In these cases lenses made from Polycon and BPflex were used, which proved very compatible and have corrigated the visual defect in the best way possible.
  • (2) The use of the autoblood with combined blood corrigents (1:4) in severe hemorrhagic shock led to the same degree of recovery of tubular secretion and glomerular filtration as combined blood corrigents alone.
  • (3) The study showed 49% of conditions related to UTI and some corrigible inadequacies in the process of care: 37.2% of indications were probably not justified; 40% of patients who did not undergo urineculture had indications and 13% who underwent urineculture had no indications to the test.
  • (4) Because of incomplete rehabilitation by the moment of patient's discharge from the hospital, it is necessary to continue the corrigative therapy directed at liquidation of the globular volume deficiency, correction of disproteinemia, normalization of the indices of central hemodynamics and metabolic processes in the organs and tissues.
  • (5) The influence of autologous blood, rheopolyglucinum with mannitol and of two combined blood corrigents on tubular secretion (with respect to 131I-hippuran excretion) and glomerular filtration (with the use of 169Yb-DTPA) was studied in experiments on white mice with "irreversible" hemorrhagic shock.
  • (6) The highest effect was recorded when the blood corrigent was supplemented by a compound resuming the electron transport along the mitochondrial respiratory chain.
  • (7) Combined parenteral (dextrans) and enteral (energetic and plastic substrates) administration of drugs and nutrients is an optimal method of corrigative therapy after resection of the stomach.
  • (8) The procedure utilizes the corrigible error correction (CEC) technique comprised of three response curves--standard, Youden one-sample, and method of standard additions (MOSA) plots, from a total of 15 to 18 X,Y data pairs.
  • (9) The existence of a moderate volume deficit, not corrigible with a chronic surcharge of water, together with the reversed diurnal pattern of water excretion and the AVP data, suggest--as a physiopathological basis of the syndrome--a severe anomaly of the osmoreceptors, with alteration of thirst and of the osmodependent AVP responses, so that the AVP secretion was regulated exclusively through volumetric mechanisms.
  • (10) In each case, we use a plaster cast, which is changed after a few days as long as the foot is limp and well corrigible.
  • (11) Left ventricular-right atrial communication is a relatively rare surgically corrigible congenital heart defect.
  • (12) Gastralgin contains in one bag--alginic acid 0.500, sodium alginate 0.500, aluminium hydroxide 0.200, magnesium hydroxide 0.100, calcium carbonate 0.500 and corrigent up to 7g.
  • (13) It is recommended not to restrict the performance of corrigative therapy to the early postoperative period, and to continue it under laboratory control up to normalization of the indices of hemodynamics and microcirculation.
  • (14) Rheopolyglucinum with mannitol improved, to some extent, the kidney function, while the combined blood corrigents including rheopolyglucinum, mannitol, crystalloids and sodium succinate contributed to more complete recovery of the kidney function.
  • (15) A method for the complex corrigative intensive therapy is presented.

Docile


Definition:

  • (a.) Teachable; easy to teach; docible.
  • (a.) Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The effects of injected bovine insulin and glucose were assessed using an ethopharmacological methodology applied to social encounters by isolated male Swiss mice with docile anosmic opponents.
  • (2) Sure, she has large fangs tucked into her soft underside, but she’s docile and exotic.
  • (3) offense in subjects paired with docile anosmic opponents.
  • (4) The sufficient force and length of this transfer, associated with its direct course by redirection through the interosseous membrane make it a docile, reliable motor unit as shown by the 16 cases studied.
  • (5) The animal is docile and easy to care for; it has an ideal heart size, a high cardiac output and a long life expectancy.
  • (6) An upper bound is imposed on altruism by the condition that there must remain a net fitness advantage for docile behavior after the cost to the individual of altruism has been deducted.
  • (7) I wasn’t there for riding lessons and the instructions I was given were limited to how to start, aim and stop the docile beast.
  • (8) A docile substrain of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) causes a persistent infection in adult C3HeB mice and induces a severe anemia, which, unlike the viremia, eventually resolves.
  • (9) Severity and duration of immunosuppressiveness depended upon the LCMV isolate and the mouse strain used: LCMV-WE and LCMV-Docile were most, whereas LCMV-Armstrong was in general least immunosuppressive.
  • (10) You’ve goaded this sleeping giant, the ordinary licence fee payer’s docile spirit animal, into expressing an opinion on something more controversial than Judy Murray’s Viennese Waltz?
  • (11) We have previously shown that major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I genes regulate susceptibility to lethal disease due to infection with the LCMV-docile isolate derived from the LCMV-UBC strain.
  • (12) The other virus, termed docile, killed few mice after the standard intracerebral inoculation, and could persist in the mice for 6 mo or more.
  • (13) He secured the appointment of a docile prime minister, Abu Mazin, who he hoped was ready to do what Arafat was not - go to war against the Islamic militants without any assurance that in return the Israelis would make any worthwhile concessions in the peace-making.
  • (14) A multiple analysis of variance for repeated measures with the factors SEX, SES, and TIME yielded two interactions for "rebellious-distrustful (FG by sex x health) and "self effacing-masochistic" (HI by time x health) and three main-effects for "agressive-sadistic" (DE by sex), "self-effacing-masochistic" (HI by SES) and "docile-dependent" (IK by time).
  • (15) Because docility-receptivity to social influence-contributes greatly to fitness in the human species, it will be positively selected.
  • (16) How did Britain turn so docile, so passive, so obedient?
  • (17) The promoters have long since cottoned on to the commercial potential of protest music; you’d have to be very determined and energetic to make yourself authentic and visible without them.” The decline of radical politics in the 1990s alongside the rise of New Labour undoubtedly contributed to folk music’s new docility, the genre offering little in the years when the Occupy movement and anti-Iraq war demonstrators have taken to the streets in protest.
  • (18) After 3 wk, a group of the five highest ranking cows from each lot were combined into a new aggressive lot; two groups of subordinate cows formed a docile lot.
  • (19) Resistance to the acute lethal disease caused by the docile strain of lymphocytic choriomeningitis (LCM) virus varies widely between different mouse strains.
  • (20) "We have had the classic docile, obedient, feminine look and we are all sick to the back teeth of it."