What's the difference between curator and curatorship?

Curator


Definition:

  • (n.) One who has the care and superintendence of anything, as of a museum; a custodian; a keeper.
  • (n.) One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee; a guardian.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Possibilities to achieve this both in the curative and the preventive field are restricted mainly due to the insufficient knowledge of their etiopathogenesis.
  • (2) Eighty four colorectal cancer patients who underwent presumably curative surgery were considered as candidates for control recurrence study.
  • (3) Preventive care is closely linked with curative care, the latter must in future be mainly in the home rather than in hospital.
  • (4) However, the number of those with blastformation rates over 40% decreased markedly in the curative cases of gastric cancer Stage II to stage IV.
  • (5) From 1975 to 1987, 170 unresectable esophageal carcinomas were curatively irradiated.
  • (6) Fifty-seven patients underwent local excision of an invasive distal rectal cancer as an initial operative procedure with curative intent.
  • (7) The presence of vital and sensitive organs such as the spinal cord, heart, and lungs makes curative radiotherapy of non-small cell lung cancer difficult to implement and necessitates use of oblique portals.
  • (8) The curators Pickering and Kaus have painstakingly trawled through the records that may accompany bones for clues.
  • (9) Further studies are needed to assess the curative efficacy with different dosage regimens.
  • (10) Oxygen administered after arthritis is advanced still exerted a significant curative effect.
  • (11) Survival rates after curative gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer among 238 patients in whom the cancer was invading the serosa were compared with 283 patients without serosal invasion.
  • (12) Salbutamol showed the same protective and curative effect in 30 patients proved in the same way as described before.
  • (13) Drainage of the hematoma was uniformly curative, although six patients had transient postoperative symptoms.
  • (14) The development of dental policy may be benefited by modifying the curative-treatment model of care to one that is preventive-behavioralist oriented.
  • (15) Detection of free malignant cells in the peritoneal cavity following curative resections of colorectal cancer may explain why some patients develop local or peritoneal recurrence after favourable operations.
  • (16) Echography is the method of choice for the study of hydatidosis, since it permits the diagnosis of cysts, the long-term monitoring of patients, and via the use of an echo-guided needle, the performance of cytological, chemical and cultural studies, as well as curative treatment by means of percutaneous drainage and sterilisation with alcohol.
  • (17) Fifty-seven patients with poor prognostic factors following resection with curative intent for gastric adenocarcinoma (T3 or T4, positive lymph nodes, positive resection line) received adjuvant radiotherapy.
  • (18) In the absence of any curative treatment, surgery was required to relieve obstruction and an operation was performed via an antero-lateral extra-pharyngeal approach.
  • (19) Local or regional recurrence without evidence of distant metastases was identified in 11 per cent of cases after 'curative' resections.
  • (20) Unfortunately, despite being a much better tolerated curative procedure involving a very brief hospitalization, the use of high-energy direct current (DC) shocks is associated with a low but significant incidence of serious complications including cardiac perforation, hypotension, coronary artery spasm, and late occurrence of ventricular fibrillation.

Curatorship


Definition:

  • (n.) The office of a curator.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And bolstered by successive polls that have shown the vast majority of Britons to be in favour of repatriation it has put aside the issue of ownership, instead proposing joint curatorship of the sculptures through the establishment of a branch of the British Museum in Athens.
  • (2) Present cases of guardianship and of curatorship will automatically be converted into cases of care under the new law, and they will be reviewed in the light of the latter within certain time limits.
  • (3) It will abolish guardianship by reason of mental disease, mental deficiency, prodigality, habitual drunkenness and drug addiction as well as guardianship of persons of full age and curatorship of infirm adults.
  • (4) It will abolish guardianship, and will replace both guardianship and curatorship of persons of full age with the new legal institution of placement under care.
  • (5) Indeed, Greece has gone so far as to propose joint curatorship of the marbles through the establishment of a branch of the British Museum, within sight of the Parthenon, on the top floor of the New Acropolis Museum.

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