What's the difference between disutilize and useless?
Disutilize
Definition:
(v. t.) To deprive of utility; to render useless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sensitivity analysis, however, demonstrates that the outcome is dependent on the disutility associated with long-term warfarin therapy.
(2) The authors conclude that the optimal strategy for the treatment of CNVAF in elderly patients varies with the disutility assigned to warfarin therapy and the effectiveness value for aspirin therapy.
(3) Empirical therapy without biopsy would only be preferred if the likelihood of disease exceeded 90% and the disutility one attaches to treating under uncertainty is low at high probability of disease.
(4) Research should be directed toward measuring these disutilities and finding ways to reduce their size.
(5) The spread of rich prizes to new fields provides added incentives to potential winners, which has its own disutilities; it reinforces competitiveness, concern for priority and attendant secrecy, all this amplifying ambivalence toward the reward system in science.
(6) However, the analysis was particularly sensitive to the degree of disutility attributed to the index symptoms of prostatism.
(7) The result was very sensitive to the disutility of dietary therapy (threshold value, 0.0014 compared with the baseline estimate of 0.02) but was also affected by the time frame of the analysis and the rate at which adverse effects of treatment decline.
(8) Eliminating the "disutility" of venipuncture or augmenting the disutility of major infectious sequelae also failed to alter the ranking.
(9) If TV is compared to transporting a patient to a central place, the implicit value of transport time and disutility required to justify using TV is $7.55 per consult in a five-clinic network.
(10) Sensitivity analyses revealed that the results were very sensitive to the effectiveness of aspirin and the disutility of warfarin.
(11) Even small disutilities associated with treatment may outweight the benefits of aggressive cholesterol-lowering strategies.
(12) Incorporation of the disutility of treatment into policy formulation may result in less interventionist and less costly policies.
(13) Even when an extreme relative disutility for major sequelae was assumed, the "blood culture all" strategy was not favored.
(14) In this positive economic model driver safety effort is determined by a balance between reduced risk and increased disutility cost.
(15) greater disutility) to venipuncture, minor infection, and hospitalization than did physicians, and these utilities were even lower in parents with other children at home.
Useless
Definition:
(a.) Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(2) It’s useless if we try and fight with them through force, so we try and fight with them through humour.” “There is a saying that laughing is the best form of medicine.
(3) It also seems to be a bit useless as a way of gathering intelligence.
(4) It is concluded that the femoral stem should be as thick as possible and that the collar of the prosthesis is useless.
(5) The clorus water disinfecting conventional methods by many reasons are useless, even in urbanized cities.
(6) By now seemingly every print and online outlet has had a crack at explaining why the Sunday shows are so phenomenally useless.
(7) He added: "Why on earth is this useless Goverment pandering to Puffs?
(8) It’s great that the new Star Wars film is more diverse , with John Boyega and Daisy Ridley in significant roles; I am pleased to see everyone on #BoycottStarWarsVII gnash and whine uselessly.
(9) Inappropriate, useless and potentially harmful surgical diagnostic procedures are also avoided.
(10) However, under normal working conditions, taking into account the period of time which inevitably elapses between the patient feeling pain in the kidney and his reaching the Emergency Department and the necessary examinations being carried out which enable the correct diagnosis to be made, the number of hours which have passed make attempts at conservative surgery completely useless.
(11) However one should not ask for the impossible of the treatment of male infertility since the most optimal seminal analysis result is useless in the presence of a monophysic menstrual cycle in the partner.
(12) The endoscopic retrograde cholangiography is of greatest practical significance for the differential diagnosis of the cholestatic icterus: non-obstructed bile ducts exclude an extrahepatic icterus and render a laparotomy useless.
(13) If you have a regulator behaving this uselessly, I suspect MPs will start saying this is not regulation," he said.
(14) The importance of a diagnosis before surgery by cytopunction and drill-biopsy has to be emphasized, to prevent an useless mastectomy.
(15) In conclusion, excepted for pituitary deficiency, basal plasma TSH (IRMA) levels are accurate and sufficient in the evaluation of the thyroid function and make the TRH-test useless.
(16) (4) The annual vaccination campaigns since 1970 against FMD were useless because most of the primary outbreaks of FMD since then can be traced to the production or the application of vaccines.
(17) A hepatic lesion regarded as useless for the ultimate diagnosis was present in 16 cases (14.5 per cent).
(18) Talking this week to several, I heard the same story of exorbitant fees and shocking interest rates throttling real production, while Adair Turner's "socially useless" financial products attract limitless bubble credit.
(19) Clinical evaluation and laboratory tests are useless.
(20) The Chinese government is depicted as benevolent, while the US government manages to be both sinister and useless – typified by the black-clad CIA operatives, one of whom gets beaten up by a Chinese character.