What's the difference between counterbalanced and counterpoised?
Counterbalanced
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Counterbalance
Example Sentences:
(1) These data indicate that increased procoagulant activity observed in various lung diseases is not counterbalanced by TFPI.
(2) The time course of thymidine and deoxycytidine pool saturation suggests however that the effects of K2Cr2O7 on plasma membrane permeability are partially counterbalanced by modifications of pool size deriving from the concomitant alteration of steps of nucleoside metabolism separate from nucleoside uptake.
(3) Administered the WISC and WISC-R in a counterbalanced design to 20 black child psychiatric outpatients.
(4) The study was performed over two sessions with drug condition and list of stimulus materials counterbalanced.
(5) Ss then were retested on death anxiety measures, forms of which were counterbalanced within groups.
(6) The relative percentages of total saturated fatty acids in 1,2-diacyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine remained constant during liver development; however, the levels of both main saturated acids, palmitic and stearic acids, were reciprocally counterbalanced as the age of the embryo proceeded.
(7) The negative inotropy of antiarrhythmic drugs is often counterbalanced by the simultaneous decrease in blood pressure leading to an afterload reduction.
(8) Two reservation groups, matched for age and sex, received four administration of a personal (Piers-Harris) and an Indian self-concept scale, in a repeated measures counterbalanced design, varying language and order.
(9) Ss were re-tested after 5 years following identical experimental and counterbalancing method to the pre-test.
(10) In conclusion, 1) in overnight fasted subjects, ethanol does not cause hypoglycemia because its inhibitory effect on Ra is counterbalanced by equal inhibition of Rd;2) basal Ra and Rd are maximally inhibited already by small ethanol doses, whereas inhibition of insulin-stimulated glucose disposal requires a moderate ethanol dose; and 3) acetate is not the mediator of ethanol-induced insulin resistance.
(11) In each, volunteers received alcohol (1 ml per kg body weight) in one session and no alcohol in another in counterbalanced order.
(12) Active and placebo dose intervals were presented in an alternating fashion, with order of exposure counterbalanced between groups.
(13) In one session, subjects smoked a cigarette prior to each CPT; in the other session they did not smoke (session order counterbalanced).
(14) The first and final sessions were preceded by no injection, the second and sixth by saline [or the inactive trans isomer (2.5 micrograms) in the flupenthixol experiment] and the middle 3 sessions by doses of cis-flupenthixol (1, 10, 25 micrograms in 0.5 microliter), quinpirole (3, 6, 12 micrograms) or SKF 38393 (2, 4, 8 micrograms), the order being counterbalanced across rats.
(15) The lack of deterioration in performance under the combination of CO and low oxygen suggested that the increased severity of the stress resulted in activation of compensatory mechanisms which counterbalanced the decreased O2 available to the tissues.
(16) Counterbalancing forces in the present political and medical environment tending simultaneously toward greater and lesser regulation are discussed.
(17) Generally, it was evident that ciprofloxacin was more potent on a weight basis than the other quinolones, but this difference was counterbalanced by a higher achievable serum concentration for ofloxacin.
(18) Awakenings were made, in counterbalanced order, from slow wave sleep (SWS--stage 3-4 and stage 4) and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.
(19) In the flight simulator phase, posthypnotic suggestions for increased vigilance performance were administered with counterbalancing for hypnosis-no-hypnosis order conditions.
(20) The net fluxes between ICF and ECF were found to be counterbalanced by the circadian rhythm in urinary potassium excretion.
Counterpoised
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Counterpoise
Example Sentences:
(1) And it mirrors a broader crossroads in international relations, with continuing economic malaise in the west being counterpoised with an increasingly rapid shift of power to emerging economies.
(2) The counterpoise of body weight and eventual exceeding of Czech children theirs Slovak contemporaries can be possible originates with improve nutritional conditions of the Slovak populations in the antecendent periods after the Second World War.
(3) The wild sex comedy of Portnoy's Complaint is counterpoised with some of the most heartfelt and convincing portrayals of childhood and youth in modern literature: it is these startling contrasts between deep nostalgic emotion and the urge to rebel that make the book so explosively funny and rewarding.
(4) Sceptical reason therefore requires a "counterpoise", in the form of "the more solid and more natural arguments derived from the senses and experience."
(5) The present report pertains to a new technique based on similar principle, utilising induced electromagnetic force as a means of counterpoising in study of contractility of isolated, frog heart.
(6) Photographic analysis in five cases showed defects not only of the tilting reactions, which are of labyrinthine origin, but also of certain other postural reactions, notably the counterpoising and protective stepping reactions.
(7) This pattern of response is consistent with the counterpoised actions of two distinct cell populations, an autoaggressive population and a lower frequency autosuppressor population.
(8) A stationary state is reached when flocculence (tendency to flocculate) is counterpoised by agitation.
(9) A hitherto unmentioned aspect of this drive is the yearning for nonexistence, a shadow-like counterpoise to life, expressed by two analysands.