What's the difference between docent and docile?

Docent


Definition:

  • (a.) Serving to instruct; teaching.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The selected parameters of evaluation were: institutional and educational objectives; facilities and equipment, both in school and hospital; financial funds disponibilities; teaching (docente resources; academic and administrative structure; curricular structure; teaching methodology, including planning and systematic; evaluation proceedings, in both discent and docente aspects; docent-assistant integration; scientific production.
  • (2) The biomedical librarian has been placed in a patient care setting working in the specific environment of a six-year medical school guided by the docent team concept (docent is defined as a clinician-scholar).
  • (3) Rank-order correlations were computed to compare the docents' and students' perceptions.
  • (4) In the study reported here, the authors investigated the perceptions of medical students and faculty mentors, called docents, regarding the docents' role.
  • (5) Five case reports about patients with glomus tumors surgically treated at Angiology and Orthopedics Department of the Hospital Provisional Docente "Dr. Antonio Luaces Iraola" in Diego de Avila are going to be presented.
  • (6) They were requested to rate these activities on the basis of how often they would be carried out by a docent ideally and on the basis of how often in their experience they were actually carried out.
  • (7) The positive aspects included active participation in "IDA--Integração Docente-Assistencial" programs, existence of pedagogical support and considerable assistential activity at the school hospitals.
  • (8) A group of 74 patients with allergic conjunctivitis from the out patient service of allergy of the Hospital Pediátrico Provincial Docente José Luis Miranda, in Santa Clara, were studied.
  • (9) A total of 197 students and 22 docents responded to a questionnaire asking them to rate 32 docent activities on a 4-point scale where 1 = seldom done and 4 = very often done.
  • (10) The sample consisted of 100 newborn infants from the Maternity Clinic of Hospital Regional Docente Trujillo-Perú, during the period from March to May 1990.
  • (11) They had received the protocol of preventive activities of the "Unitat Docent de Medicina Familiar i Comunitària de Barcelona" during 1989.
  • (12) Both the docents and the students perceived the docents as actually carrying out their essential role-modeling, teaching, and patient-care functions.
  • (13) Within this framework the specifically qualified Clinical Medical Librarians function within the docent unit.
  • (14) The characteristics of the students, docents, and setting that contributed to successful partnerships are identified.
  • (15) Herein we report a case of malignant primary tumor of the ureter that had been seen and treated in the Department of Urology of Hospital Docente Clinico Quirurgico "10 de Octubre", in Havana, Cuba.
  • (16) The students and docents were found to favor the partnership system and reported that most partnerships worked well.
  • (17) Although both the docents and the students consistently felt that more time should be devoted to each activity than actually was, the rank-order correlation between the docents' rating of the ideal and actual practice was .87, and between the students' ratings of ideal and actual it was .93.
  • (18) Mean ratings of ideal and actual practice were calculated for each activity as perceived by the docents and by the students.
  • (19) The present study includes 404 patients with Diabetes Mellitus, admitted into the Angiology Service from the Hospital Provincial Docente Manuel Ascunse Domenech, Camaguey and from Dr. Antonio Luaces Iraola, Ciego de Avila.
  • (20) The authors report the "I Encontro Paulista de Docentes de Enfermagem Pediátrica".

Docile


Definition:

  • (a.) Teachable; easy to teach; docible.
  • (a.) Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The effects of injected bovine insulin and glucose were assessed using an ethopharmacological methodology applied to social encounters by isolated male Swiss mice with docile anosmic opponents.
  • (2) Sure, she has large fangs tucked into her soft underside, but she’s docile and exotic.
  • (3) offense in subjects paired with docile anosmic opponents.
  • (4) The sufficient force and length of this transfer, associated with its direct course by redirection through the interosseous membrane make it a docile, reliable motor unit as shown by the 16 cases studied.
  • (5) The animal is docile and easy to care for; it has an ideal heart size, a high cardiac output and a long life expectancy.
  • (6) An upper bound is imposed on altruism by the condition that there must remain a net fitness advantage for docile behavior after the cost to the individual of altruism has been deducted.
  • (7) I wasn’t there for riding lessons and the instructions I was given were limited to how to start, aim and stop the docile beast.
  • (8) A docile substrain of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) causes a persistent infection in adult C3HeB mice and induces a severe anemia, which, unlike the viremia, eventually resolves.
  • (9) Severity and duration of immunosuppressiveness depended upon the LCMV isolate and the mouse strain used: LCMV-WE and LCMV-Docile were most, whereas LCMV-Armstrong was in general least immunosuppressive.
  • (10) You’ve goaded this sleeping giant, the ordinary licence fee payer’s docile spirit animal, into expressing an opinion on something more controversial than Judy Murray’s Viennese Waltz?
  • (11) We have previously shown that major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I genes regulate susceptibility to lethal disease due to infection with the LCMV-docile isolate derived from the LCMV-UBC strain.
  • (12) The other virus, termed docile, killed few mice after the standard intracerebral inoculation, and could persist in the mice for 6 mo or more.
  • (13) He secured the appointment of a docile prime minister, Abu Mazin, who he hoped was ready to do what Arafat was not - go to war against the Islamic militants without any assurance that in return the Israelis would make any worthwhile concessions in the peace-making.
  • (14) A multiple analysis of variance for repeated measures with the factors SEX, SES, and TIME yielded two interactions for "rebellious-distrustful (FG by sex x health) and "self effacing-masochistic" (HI by time x health) and three main-effects for "agressive-sadistic" (DE by sex), "self-effacing-masochistic" (HI by SES) and "docile-dependent" (IK by time).
  • (15) Because docility-receptivity to social influence-contributes greatly to fitness in the human species, it will be positively selected.
  • (16) How did Britain turn so docile, so passive, so obedient?
  • (17) The promoters have long since cottoned on to the commercial potential of protest music; you’d have to be very determined and energetic to make yourself authentic and visible without them.” The decline of radical politics in the 1990s alongside the rise of New Labour undoubtedly contributed to folk music’s new docility, the genre offering little in the years when the Occupy movement and anti-Iraq war demonstrators have taken to the streets in protest.
  • (18) After 3 wk, a group of the five highest ranking cows from each lot were combined into a new aggressive lot; two groups of subordinate cows formed a docile lot.
  • (19) Resistance to the acute lethal disease caused by the docile strain of lymphocytic choriomeningitis (LCM) virus varies widely between different mouse strains.
  • (20) "We have had the classic docile, obedient, feminine look and we are all sick to the back teeth of it."