What's the difference between cure and method?

Cure


Definition:

  • (n.) Care, heed, or attention.
  • (n.) Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure.
  • (n.) Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
  • (n.) Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
  • (n.) Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.
  • (v. t.) To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient.
  • (v. t.) To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
  • (v. t.) To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
  • (v. t.) To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.
  • (v. i.) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
  • (v. i.) To restore health; to effect a cure.
  • (v. i.) To become healed.
  • (n.) A curate; a pardon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In all cases the polyarthritis is cured by anti-inflammatory treatment in 1-6 months.
  • (2) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
  • (3) The results indicated that roughly 25% of patients treated in this way will become hypothyroid after 5 years and that 85% are cured (need no further therapy during the follow-up period) using a single dose of iodine-131.
  • (4) We report a retrospective study of 107 cases of carcinoma of the sigmoid colon and upper rectum treated for primary cure at the University of California at Los Angeles Hospital between 1955 and 1970.
  • (5) HDAra-C in combination with anthracyclines is now considered to be a treatment which may afford some hope of a cure in a certain percentage of cases of adult acute non-lymphocytic leukemia.
  • (6) Since the plasmid-cured strains did not contain DNA sequences homologous to plasmid DNA, the gene for the free-inclusion protein must be encoded in the chromosome.
  • (7) In Stage I, seven relapses (relapse rate 6%) occurred after irradiation; three of them were cured with second-line therapies.
  • (8) Although patients treated with postoperative radiation therapy showed significantly extended survival rates as compared to those receiving surgical resection alone, the glioblastoma recurred within a 2cm margin of the primary site in more than 90% of the patients and conventional external radiation therapy with a doses of 50-60 Gy did not result in local cure.
  • (9) Percutaneous tenotomy performed only in patients recurring after temporary cure, drops the rate of recurrences to 13%.
  • (10) Long-term health conditions cannot be 'cured' – interventions are themselves long-term – taking place throughout the life of a patient.
  • (11) These alterations were not dependent on the prophage integration prior to curing, and no phage DNA was detected in cured cells by blot hybridisation.
  • (12) About 10% of the patients treated had “complete remission”, with no detectable cancer remaining - considered a cure if the patient is still cancer-free five years after diagnosis.
  • (13) Fifteen apparently normal patients who had been cured of cryptococcosis were found, as a group, to have impaired responsiveness to skin testing with cryptococcin and mumps, minimal leukocyte migration inhibition when stimulated with cryptococcin or C. neoformans, but normal group responses to cryptococcin in Cryptococcus-induced lymphocyte transformation.
  • (14) Ultimately, prevention is a better approach than cure.
  • (15) Nine among 21 patients (42%) who were initially treated by percutaneous puncture were definitively cured: all pseudocysts were smaller than 55 mm.
  • (16) The median duration of treatment for the clinical cures in osteomyelitis and septic arthritis were 29.5 days and 46 days respectively.
  • (17) Age at diagnosis (greater than or equal to 60 years vs less than or equal to 60 years), total number of involved sites, tumor bulk (mass size greater than or equal to 10 cm vs less than 10 cm), serum LDH (greater than or equal to 500 Units) and prompt achievement of complete remission following intensive combination regimens appear to be the most important variables predicting for cure in aggressive lymphomas.
  • (18) Clinical improvement did not occur in treated patients, and microbiologic cure was never obtained.
  • (19) The present findings imply that patients in whom an apparent cure has been brought about by conservative treatment may harbor latent malignancy.
  • (20) Oral potassium iodide therapy resulted in complete cure.

Method


Definition:

  • (n.) An orderly procedure or process; regular manner of doing anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of teaching languages; a method of improving the mind.
  • (n.) Orderly arrangement, elucidation, development, or classification; clear and lucid exhibition; systematic arrangement peculiar to an individual.
  • (n.) Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnaean method.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A modification of the manual glucose oxidase-gum guaiacum method of Shipton, B., Wood, P.J.
  • (2) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
  • (3) Biochemical, immunocytochemical and histochemical methods were used to study the effect of chronic acetazolamide treatment on carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoenzymes in the rat kidney.
  • (4) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
  • (5) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
  • (6) The HBV infection was tested by the reversed passive hemagglutination method for the HBsAg and by the passive hemagglutination method for the anti-HBs at the time of recruitment in 1984.
  • (7) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
  • (8) A new and simple method of serotyping campylobacters has been developed which utilises co-agglutination to detect the presence of heat-stable antigens.
  • (9) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
  • (10) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
  • (11) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
  • (12) The preembedding method also disclosed diffuse cytosolic immunoreactivity.
  • (13) A simple method for ultrarapid freezing of cell cultures in monolayers was developed.
  • (14) Nasotracheal intubation has been well established as a method for maintaining an artificial airway in children.
  • (15) These results show that this method is useful in topographical evaluation of CBF changes.
  • (16) Analysis revealed some significant differences in the false-positive rate, depending on the test method used or virus samples evaluated.
  • (17) The method is based on two-dimensional scanning photon absorptiometry on the distal part of the forearm.
  • (18) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
  • (19) While stereology is the principal technique, particularly in its application to the parenchyma, other compartments such as the airways and vasculature demand modifications or different methods altogether.
  • (20) However, there was no consistent protocol for the method or duration of drug administration.