What's the difference between deletory and depletory?
Deletory
Definition:
(n.) That which blots out.
Example Sentences:
(1) For biotherapy to develop, it is necessary to understand both the beneficial and the deletorious effects of cytokines.
(2) Review of the literature failed to show that pregnancy had any deletorious effect on either the course or survival of patients with Hodgkin's disease; nor did therapeutic abortion alter the survival curves of these patients.
(3) 28 immature female albino mice were utilized to clarify if there was a sufficient amount of the hormonal agent used in the production of meat for human consumption, such as estrogen, can remain in meat cut from carcasses of animals administered hormones during finishing to have deletorious effects on human ingestors.
Depletory
Definition:
(a.) Serving to deplete.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dopamine uptake inhibitor nomifensine reduced the depletory effect of MPP+ on dopamine and DOPAC content.
(2) They also introduced the stethoscope and the techniques of auscultation and palpation and were the first to recognize that excessive bloodletting, purging and other depletory measures were harmful.
(3) Several factors that relate to specificity, sufficiency, and compatibility with other 5-HT depletory techniques were discussed, as were factors of similarity and dissimilarity between this and the previous experiments that we attempted to replicate.
(4) Applied as depletory method in the treatment of CML and CLL leukopheresis may rapidly diminish the peripheral leucocyte count while spleen and lymphomas decrease in size at the same time.
(5) The results suggest that the hepatic glutathione levels are reversibly depleted by single large doses of paracetamol, while the glutathione depletory effect appears to decrease after the repeated administration of this hepatotoxic agent.