What's the difference between disposition and use?

Disposition


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.
  • (n.) The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.
  • (n.) Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.
  • (n.) Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.
  • (n.) Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind.
  • (n.) Mood; humor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In view of its significant effects on drug metabolizing enzymes and clearance mechanisms, it is important to know its disposition characteristics.
  • (2) Models of the VMT nuclei were constructed to compare their size, shape and disposition across species.
  • (3) These marked steroid-induced changes in MS responsiveness could not be explained by altered pharmacokinetic disposition of morphine.
  • (4) The disposition of sulphadimidine (15 mg kg-1 orally) was investigated in six chronic osteoarthritis patients (four slow and two fast acetylators) prior to and 4 days following intra-articular administration of glucocorticoids.
  • (5) In the present paper, attention has been focused on the role of cytokines and the effects of the acute phase response on drug disposition in disease states (including the effect of anorexia on medicated feed intake and drug bioavailability).
  • (6) The disposition of radiolabeled cocaine in humans has been studied after three routes of administration: iv injection, nasal insufflation (ni, snorting), and smoke inhalation (si).
  • (7) Avoidance coping was negatively related to dispositional optimism.
  • (8) The greatest problems appeared in diagnosing thrombosis of mesenterial vessels and acute appendicitis in cases with the retrocecal disposition of the vermiform process.
  • (9) Awareness of making dispositional inferences was only weakly correlated with disposition-cued recall.
  • (10) Current methods of evaluating the bioavailability of drugs with nonlinear disposition kinetics are based on specific pharmacokinetic models in contrast to the more rational model independent (structureless) area under the curve (AUC) and deconvolution methods used in linear pharmacokinetics.
  • (11) The disposition profiles of a new beta-adrenergic blocking drug, timolol, were investigated at 11 different times in normal individuals after a single oral dose.
  • (12) In order to compare the disposition of D-galactose and D-glucose in various organs of the rat, we have measured the amount of 14C-galactose and 14C-glucose present in the enteric canal, blood, muscle and liver, 2h.
  • (13) Leukocyte differentials from 468 emergency room patients were assessed for clinical value by determining their associations with diagnosis, disposition, therapy, and prognosis.
  • (14) To determine whether basal insulin supplementation in addition to lowering postabsorptive plasma glucose concentration also improves the postprandial pattern of glucose disposition, glucose metabolism after ingestion of a solid mixed meal was assessed in obese patients with NIDDM before and after treatment with ultralente and compared with glucose metabolism observed in nondiabetic subjects.
  • (15) Particular emphasis was placed on the relative spatial disposition of the tyramine moiety and the additional aromatic ring that occurs in both molecules.
  • (16) This paper reviews their pharmacologic disposition in man.
  • (17) The effects of modulation of liver microsomal sulphoxidation on the disposition kinetics of netobimin (NTB) metabolites were investigated in sheep.
  • (18) The changes in physicochemical properties due to introduction of a benzenesulfonyl group into the hydantoin ring may be responsible for the difference in the disposition between I and II.
  • (19) The disposition of amiloride was highly dependent on renal function, with higher plasma amiloride concentrations in the elderly reflecting diminished renal function.
  • (20) The clinical significance of the altered disposition of chloramphenicol is that administration at the usual dosing rate would lead to accumulation of the drug and eventual toxicity.

Use


Definition:

  • (v. t.) The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to some purpose; as, the use of a pen in writing; his machines are in general use.
  • (v. t.) Occasion or need to employ; necessity; as, to have no further use for a book.
  • (v. t.) Yielding of service; advantage derived; capability of being used; usefulness; utility.
  • (v. t.) Continued or repeated practice; customary employment; usage; custom; manner; habit.
  • (v. t.) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
  • (v. t.) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese; as, the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc.
  • (v. t.) The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury.
  • (v. t.) The benefit or profit of lands and tenements. Use imports a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holding of lands. He to whose use or benefit the trust is intended shall enjoy the profits. An estate is granted and limited to A for the use of B.
  • (v. t.) A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.
  • (v. t.) To make use of; to convert to one's service; to avail one's self of; to employ; to put a purpose; as, to use a plow; to use a chair; to use time; to use flour for food; to use water for irrigation.
  • (v. t.) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat; as, to use a beast cruelly.
  • (v. t.) To practice customarily; to make a practice of; as, to use diligence in business.
  • (v. t.) To accustom; to habituate; to render familiar by practice; to inure; -- employed chiefly in the passive participle; as, men used to cold and hunger; soldiers used to hardships and danger.
  • (v. i.) To be wont or accustomed; to be in the habit or practice; as, he used to ride daily; -- now disused in the present tense, perhaps because of the similarity in sound, between "use to," and "used to."
  • (v. i.) To be accustomed to go; to frequent; to inhabit; to dwell; -- sometimes followed by of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
  • (2) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
  • (3) Therefore, these findings may extend the use of platelets as neuronal models.
  • (4) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
  • (5) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
  • (6) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
  • (7) A study revealed that the percentage of active sperm in semen 30 seconds after ejaculation was 10.3% when a nonoxynol 9 latex condom was used as opposed to 55.9% in a nonspermicidal condom.
  • (8) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
  • (9) We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the breakpoint area of alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asia type and several parts of the alpha-globin gene cluster to make a differential diagnosis between alpha-thalassemia-1 and Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis.
  • (10) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
  • (11) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
  • (12) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
  • (13) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
  • (14) At 36 h postsurgery, RBCs were examined by 23Na-NMR by using dysprosium tripolyphosphate as a chemical shift reagent.
  • (15) Biochemical, immunocytochemical and histochemical methods were used to study the effect of chronic acetazolamide treatment on carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoenzymes in the rat kidney.
  • (16) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
  • (17) Down and up regulation by peptides may be useful for treatment of cough and prevention of aspiration pneumonia.
  • (18) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
  • (19) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
  • (20) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.