What's the difference between corrigible and reformable?

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.

Reformable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being reformed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Now, as the Senate takes up a weakened House bill along with the House's strengthened backdoor-proof amendment, it's time to put focus back on sweeping reform.
  • (2) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (3) What reforms there were could also be reversed, she warned.
  • (4) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
  • (5) A key way of regaining public trust will be reforming the system of remuneration as agreed by the G20.
  • (6) It has announced a four-stage programme of reforms that will tackle most of these stubborn and longstanding problems, including Cinderella issues such as how energy companies treat their small business customers.
  • (7) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
  • (8) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
  • (9) Speaking to pro-market thinktank Reform, Milburn called for “more competition” and said the shadow health team were making a “fundamental political misjudgment” by attempting to roll back policies he had overseen.
  • (10) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
  • (11) According to the Howard League for Penal Reform, which is backing the legal challenge, every year 75,0000 17-year-olds are held in custody.
  • (12) The heretofore "permanently and totally disabled versus able-bodied" principle in welfare reforms is being abbandoned.
  • (13) It is the second fate that is overtaking the government's higher education reforms.
  • (14) But even before the reforms, half of the women coming to refuges were being turned away, so beds were already scarce.
  • (15) The arrest of the Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his journalist wife, Yeganeh Salehi, as well as a photographer and her partner, is a brutal reminder of the distance between President Hassan Rouhani’s reforming promises and his willingness to act.
  • (16) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
  • (17) The authors are also upfront about what has not gone so well: "We were too slow to mobilise … we did not identify clear leadership or adequate resources for the actions … it is vital to accelerate the programme of civil service reform."
  • (18) Gerhard Schröder , Merkel’s immediate predecessor, had pushed through parliament a radical reform agenda to get the country’s spluttering economy back on track.
  • (19) This study suggests that laparoscopy has a role in adhesiolysis of mild and moderate adhesions and SLL provides further opportunity to relyse reformed adhesions in some cases.
  • (20) The Treasury said: "Britain has been at the forefront of global reforms to make banking more responsible, including big reductions in upfront cash bonuses and linking rewards to long-term success.

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