What's the difference between dispositive and settling?

Dispositive


Definition:

  • (a.) Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive.
  • (a.) Belonging to disposition or natural, tendency.

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.

Settling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Settle
  • (n.) The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing one's self, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc.
  • (n.) That which settles at the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs; sediment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We found that when neutrophils were allowed to settle into protein-coated surfaces the amount of O2- they generated varied with the nature of the protein: IgG greater than bovine serum albumin greater than plastic greater than gelatin greater than serum greater than collagen.
  • (2) To settle the case, Apple and the four publishers offered a range of commitments to the commission that will include the termination of current agency agreements, and, for two years, giving ebook retailers the freedom to set their own prices for ebooks.
  • (3) Her speech suggested the kind of Republican who would truly "raise the conversation", and if it seems like settling to want an opposition party to simply not be so utterly vindictive, well, yes, I will settle for that.
  • (4) Twellman has steadily grown in confidence as he settles into his role, though whether as a player or as an advocate he was never shy about voicing his opinions.
  • (5) This causes a time lag, with money continuing to be taken until the SLC is made aware that the debt has been settled.
  • (6) The flattening of neutrophils occurred soon after settling, and was not followed by extension.
  • (7) Everton ended with 10 men after Seamus Coleman limped off with all three substitutes deployed but there was no late flourish from a visiting team who, with Fernando replacing Kevin De Bruyne after the Irish defender’s departure, appeared content to settle for 1-2.
  • (8) The issue of a beneficial effect of calcium channel blockers on human coronary atherosclerosis is however not yet settled.
  • (9) After the action-packed opening two innings the Cardinals, and particularly Wainwright, settled and the runs dried up.
  • (10) The ACT’s opposition leader, Jeremy Hanson, said during Tuesday’s debate that the uncertainty surrounding the new same-sex marriage regime created significant problems for couples, and he suggested the territory could be liable to compensation if it pushed ahead of the tolerance of the commonwealth, rather than waiting for the legalities to be settled.
  • (11) The angiographic aspect settle them to established correlation between functional and non functional tumors: the formers characteristic "blush", agreeding in fact with the initial phase of the growth, increase in a monstruous "pseudoangiomatous" aspect in the laters.
  • (12) Labor’s left faction is yet to settle its position on the politically controversial issue of turning back asylum-seeker boats , ahead of the party’s national conference at the end of the month.
  • (13) This might be because they have not been paid and are motivated by a desire to loot, as well as to settle old and new scores with the opposing force.
  • (14) Once they are settled and their roots are heading down to more secure sources of water, ease back.
  • (15) The starting premise of the remain campaign was that elections in Britain are settled in a centre-ground defined by aversion to economic risk and swung by a core of liberal middle-class voters who are allergic to radical lurches towards political uncertainty.
  • (16) Plasma HPL settled at a constant level during the last few weeks before labor.
  • (17) Mistakes in maternity care account for a third of the £1bn a year the NHS has to spend settling medical negligence claims.
  • (18) In 1995 8,000 people whose lives were ruined by the Montserrat volcano settled in Britain.
  • (19) According to spokesman Vladimir Markin, the murder was either a set-up by the opposition to use Nemtsov as a “sacrificial victim”, a personal issue, a settling of scores between radical groups fighting on either side of the Ukraine conflict, or an act of Islamic terrorism.
  • (20) Okay, that number 8 ranking isn’t incredibly impressive but it’s much better than, say, settling for a NIT bid and then (hilariously) losing in the first round .

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