What's the difference between deadliness and lethality?
Deadliness
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being deadly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nigeria's military and government claim to be winning the war in the five-year insurgency but the tempo and deadliness of attacks has increased this year, killing more than 2,000 people so far compared to an estimated 3,600 killed over the past four years.
(2) Frieden said he is deeply saddened over Duncan’s death, and said it was a tragic reminder of the deadliness of this disease.
(3) When there is no one left to listen to grievances over this elimination, people will show more regard for the fluency and deadliness of Germany.
(4) 6 suggestions are offered for health care workers who care for AIDS patients: 1) look at who gets AIDS and who does not as a guide to understanding transmission; 2) remember that deadliness and contagiousness are not the same; 3) be aware of emotions that get in the way of professional decisions; 4) gather information on AIDS to counteract hysteria; 5) take the risk of personal involvement; and 6) for administrators, deal with employee grievances and be sure that the hospital's patient advocacy system is intact.
(5) The militants have intensified the frequency and deadliness of attacks since the government announced last month that the group – whose name means “Western education is sinful” in the local Hausa language – had agreed to a ceasefire and the schoolgirls would be released imminently.
(6) Boko Haram has increased the number and deadliness of its attacks and this month has been closing in on Chibok, threatening to attack again, according to community leaders.
(7) A new method was suggested to determine the index of deadliness in fixing the intensity of the epizootic process as manifested in its two forms--apparent and inapparent.
(8) Nigeria's military appears incapable of halting the attacks that have increased in number and deadliness this year, killing at least 2,000 people so far compared to an estimated 3,600 in the four previous years of the Boko Haram insurgency.
(9) Once a player has proved his deadliness from free-kick – as Zárate did with that wicked marvel against West Bromwich Albion on Sunday – he gains a new status and adds another layer of intrigue to his subsequent matches.
Lethality
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being lethal; mortality.
Example Sentences:
(1) When chimeric animals were subjected to a lethal challenge of endotoxin, their response was markedly altered by the transferred lymphoid cells.
(2) In more than 70 per cent of these, brain injury is the decisive lethal factor.
(3) One rat strain (TAS) is susceptible to the anticoagulant and lethal effects of warfarin and the other two strains are homozygous for warfarin resistance genes from either wild Welsh (HW) or Scottish (HS) rats.
(4) The results are consistent with our previous suggestion that lethality for virulent SFV infection results from a lethal threshold of damage to neurons in the CNS and that attenuating mutations may reduce neuronal damage below this threshold level.
(5) Osteogenesis imperfecta is the common term for a heterogeneous group of heritable disorders of connective tissue with lethal and nonlethal forms.
(6) It was recently demonstrated that MRL-lpr lymphoid cells transferred into lethally irradiated MRL- +mice unexpectedly failed to induce the early onset of lupus syndrome and massive lymphadenopathy of the donor, instead they caused a severe wasting syndrome resembling graft-vs-host (GvH) disease.
(7) The marine vibrio alone is a powerful stimulus to mucus secretion but lethal for the host.
(8) In-vivo data are limited primarily to dominant lethal studies in rats and some in-vivo alkaline elution results.
(9) None of these MAbs showed any virus-neutralizing activity in vitro; however, mice passively immunized with the purified MAbs were protected from lethal infection by the JHM strain of mouse hepatitis virus.
(10) A variation of a procedure for localized mutagenesis (Hong and Ames, 1971) was employed to generate conditional lethal mutants in phosphatidylserine decarboxylase.
(11) A highly significant correlation was observed between neutralization of indirect hemolysis and neutralization of lethal activity.
(12) A retrospective study was conducted into 136 patients who had received surgical treatment for perforated gastroduodenal ulcers, with the view to establishing postoperative lethality and morbidity (comparing simple suturing with definitive ulcer surgery).
(13) These measures excluded unfavourable lethal outcomes even in cases complicated by Gayet-Wernicke encephalopathy.
(14) Frequency and localization of spontaneous and induced by high temperature (37 degrees C) recessive lethal mutations in X-chromosome of females belonging to the 1(1) ts 403 strain defective in synthesis of heat-shock proteins (HSP) were studied.
(15) As a consequence of deformation from spherical-to-cylindrical shape in the microvasculature, demands for increased surface membrane area leads to increases in surface membrane tension above critical levels for rupture, and the cancer cells are rapidly and lethally damaged.
(16) In almost 80% of sudden cardiac deaths in ACMP foci of acute myocardial ischemia are found, that can lead to ventricular fibrillation with lethal outcome.
(17) Analysis of the literature data on the use of various therapeutic approaches to the treatment of febrile schizophrenia has shown that so far psychiatry does not possess such methods of treatment which could allow the complete prevention of lethal outcomes in this disease.
(18) Our previous results have shown that SC injection of DHEA resulted in upregulation of the specific host immune response resulting in protection against a lethal infection.
(19) Recently, this laboratory has demonstrated an enhanced susceptibility toward the development of ischemia-related lethal ventricular arrhythmias in the presence of therapeutic serum concentrations of digoxin in conscious dogs after myocardial infarction.
(20) The results are discussed in terms of possible conjugation-associated changes that, at high Hfr to F(-) ratios, lead to lethal zygosis.