What's the difference between equipoise and equiponderance?
Equipoise
Definition:
(n.) Equality of weight or force; hence, equilibrium; a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are balanced, and hence equal; state of being equally balanced; -- said of moral, political, or social interests or forces.
(n.) Counterpoise.
Example Sentences:
(1) As an editor, I think that aura of equipoise turns out to be very helpful, because you have so many people here who are professional neurotics, always acting out, drama queens, who have one form of craziness or another.
(2) The Equipoise clasp can be used with success for, among others, the Kennedy Class IV case if the correct clinical and laboratory procedures are followed.
(3) According to this concept of "clinical equipoise," the requirement is satisfied if there is genuine uncertainty within the expert medical community--not necessarily on the part of the individual investigator--about the preferred treatment.
(4) The ethics of clinical research requires equipoise--a state of genuine uncertainty on the part of the clinical investigator regarding the comparative therapeutic merits of each arm in a trial.
(5) The highly genetically heterogeneous foundation population was produced by the equipoised intercrossing of eight inbred strains of mice, and selective breeding carried out by assortative matings of extreme phenotypes.
(6) The types of steroid used were investigated and revealed that on average, four different types of anabolic steroid were used during the year, with individual use ranging from one to fifteen different types; including Dianabol, Deca Durabolin, Anavar, Testosterone, Androl 50, Winstrol, Primobolan, Equipoise, Finaject, Parabolin, HCG, Primacetate, Enanthate, Halotestin, and Maxibolin, in order of the most to least frequently used.
(7) If clinicians are equally divided, there is a state of collective equipoise and a trial is ethical.
(8) The modified Equipoise clasp has been developed to overcome the negative aesthetics of anterior clasping.
(9) However, no "modern" retention complex (Nally & Martinet--R.P.I.--R.P.A.--"equipoise"...)
(10) The Black Act’s sweeping brutality was wholly at odds with any notion of Georgian social equipoise.
(11) The female bodybuilders reported that they had used an average of two different steroids including Deca Durabolin, Anavar, Testosterone, Dianabol, Equipoise, and Winstrol.
(12) Half of our subjects perceived a trial as unethical when equipoise was disturbed beyond 70:30.
(13) I suggest an alternative concept of equipoise, which would be based on present or imminent controversy in the clinical community over the preferred treatment.
(14) Image: Liz McBurney for the Guardian Crozier and Goldberger's studies help to answer a question that many coffee drinkers have asked: why is it that on some days one cup of coffee puts you in absolute equipoise – brilliant but steady, relaxed but energetic – while other days it is not even enough to prop open your eyelids?
(15) When equipoise is disturbed beyond 80:20, less than 3 per cent of subjects would consider human trials morally justifiable.
(16) Confirmatory evidence of boldenone sulfate in equine urine was obtained from 2 h to 42 days following a therapeutic intramuscular dose of Equipoise.
(17) Methods for screening by thin-layer chromatography, quantification by high-performance liquid chromatography with ultraviolet detection and confirmation by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry of boldenone sulfate in equine urine after administration of boldenone undecylenate (Equipoise) are presented.
(18) Fifteen patients involving twenty-two Equipoise clasps were followed up for retention, aesthetics and oral health.
(19) We conducted an ethometric study to find out how much collective equipoise can be disturbed before the potential subjects in a trial think that it is unethical.
Equiponderance
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Equiponderancy
Example Sentences:
(1) The phenomenon of a hundredfold more rapid blood clearance of biotinylated immunoglobulins after post-injection of an equiponderate dose of avidin is described.
(2) After equiponderant radionuclide ventriculography the parametric images (phasic and amplitude) of heart function were estimated in 20 patients with dilated cardiomyopathy and in 17 patients with coronary heart disease associated with cardiomegaly.