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Efficacity


Definition:

  • (n.) Efficacy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There were no differences in the efficacity of the drugs.
  • (2) The report compares the compatibility, efficacity and serology response of two bivalent anti-foot-and-mouth disease vaccines (OC).
  • (3) The Asylum or Institution model showed the poorest levels of efficacity in all items, and the higher costs.
  • (4) Two major factors affecting therapeutic efficacity appear to be the patient's age and the length of time between onset of the symptoms and start of therapy.
  • (5) In order to evaluate the efficacity of plasma exchanges (PE) in dermatomyositis and polymyositis, the case histories of 38 patients, who had undergone plasma exchanges between 1980 and 1986 in 10 French plasmapheresis centers, were studied.
  • (6) For the purpose of analysing efficacity of the medial third tendon transfer to the distal and deep part of the medial collateral ligament before the bony maturity, 24 children have been reviewed with a post operative follow up of 14 months to 6 and half years.
  • (7) In this study we have evaluated its efficacity per os in treatment of auricular rhythm disorders refractory to the usual therapies, and its effects on the accessory routes of atrioventricular conduction.
  • (8) Inclusions criteria and results are examined, making obvious that patients responded well according to the Hamilton rating scale for depression (17 item version--16.4 points dropped at day 7th in 43%) and that it is an efficaceous antidepressant.
  • (9) Even simple inactivators were found to be efficace: 0.1% cysteine and 0.5% sodium thiosulfate for mercuric chloride and the iodophor; 0.1% sodium sulfite for these two substances and for the QAC in the lower concentration; 1.0% polysorbate 80 for hexylresorcinol, o-phenylphenol and the QAC in the lower concentration; 0.5% sodium thioglycolate for mercuric chloride, the iodophor and chloramine-T.
  • (10) The Comprehensive Program, whose main characteristic is the integration of the community in the effort to solve its mental health problems, proved to have the greatest efficacity, according to the items selected for evaluation.
  • (11) The results confirm earlier demonstrations that (1) "All superoxide dismutases are equal but some are more equal than others", (2) at the dose levels used (compatible with possible clinical use) homologous enzyme is inefficient and hence human Cu-SOD may not be effective in humans, (3) liposomal encapsulation of bovine Cu-SOD greatly enhances biological efficacity, provides a slow release mechanism of the enzyme and provides a powerful drug for the treatment of ischemic injury.
  • (12) Its genuine efficacity must be confirmed by a controlled study against placebo and other confirmed treatments like antiestrogens.
  • (13) Nevertheless, the knowledge of the primordial role of stasis and the phenomena of coagulation, and not least the platelets, in the matter of venous thrombogenesis, and knowledge of the results of studies on experimental thrombosis and of the first clinical trials lead to the conclusion that it is dangerous, at least at the moment, to abandon therapy for the prevention of venous thrombosis the efficacity of which is certain (heparin), in favour of substances the efficacity of which only hypothetical(anti-aggregants).
  • (14) The efficacity of the liver denervation procedure was confirmed by a significant decrease in norepinephrine content in various lobes of the liver.
  • (15) The present experiment shows the efficacity of the sesame-oil adjuvant influenza vaccine.
  • (16) A short summary of clinical results is given as a confirmation of the expected efficacity of the U.D.V.
  • (17) A Table allows a rapid and accurate determination of the quantity of vaccine to be injected into the mink to provide the same efficacity as a dose of standard vaccine.
  • (18) These findings would suggest that TP might restore the efficacity of sialyl transferase at the B lymphocyte level.
  • (19) We now feel that with the utilisation of these dosimetric criteria we will be able to: minimize the risk of complication without augmenting the indicence of local-regional failures; facilitate the objective comparison of the efficacity of the different intracavitary techniques presently employed at the major treatment centers.
  • (20) Their efficacity was evaluated by measurement of particle retention and by quantitative determination of the reduction of aerobiocontamination in rooms occupied by patients.

Efficient


Definition:

  • (n.) Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power.
  • (n.) An efficient cause; a prime mover.

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) The hemodynamic efficiency of the drive was tested in a number of in vivo experiments.
  • (3) This may be due to efficient replacement of Leu by Phe at CUC (and, probably, CUU) codons throughout the genome.
  • (4) Meanwhile the efficiency of muscarinic antagonists in inhibition of tremor reaction induced by arecoline administration is associated with interaction between the drugs and the M2-subtype.
  • (5) These lysates are comparable to those of Escherichia coli in transcriptional and translational fidelity and efficiency in response to a given template DNA.
  • (6) The carotenoid lycopene was the most efficient 1O2 quencher (kq + kr = 31 x 10(9) M-1 s-1).
  • (7) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
  • (8) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
  • (9) Epidermal growth factor reduced plating efficiency by about 50% for A431 cells in different cell cycle phases whereas a slight increase in plating efficiency was seen for SiHa cells.
  • (10) It is argued that this process drove the evolution of present 5' and 3' splice sites from a subset of proto-splice sites and also drove the evolution of a more efficient splicing machinery.
  • (11) Nevertheless, this LTR does not govern efficient transcription of adjacent genes in a transient expression assay.
  • (12) This new protocol has increased the effectiveness of the toxicology laboratory and enhanced the efficiency of the house staff.
  • (13) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
  • (14) Although they were praised in the last five years as the most efficient drugs against cancer and infectious diseases, no great success was clinically and experimentally reported in the past.
  • (15) An efficient numerical algorithm based on the cyclic coordinate search method to solve the latter is explained.
  • (16) A standard protocol is reported for the highly efficient demonstration of replication patterns corresponding to R-type and G-type banding.
  • (17) The experiences with short-time psychotherapies described here are encouraging and confirm results of other groups demonstrating the efficiency of psychotherapeutic interventions with the elderly.
  • (18) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
  • (19) Plasmids containing the inverted repeat alone bound ER, though less efficiently than did plasmids containing the entire sequence.
  • (20) As novel antibody therapeutics are developed for different malignancies and require evaluation with cells previously uncharacterized as antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) targets, efficient description of key parameters of the assay system expedites the preclinical assessment.