What's the difference between failure and nonfulfillment?

Failure


Definition:

  • (n.) Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.
  • (n.) Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise.
  • (n.) Want of success; the state of having failed.
  • (n.) Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight.
  • (n.) A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business.
  • (n.) A failing; a slight fault.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The newborn with critical AS typically presents with severe cardiac failure and the infant with moderate failure, whereas children may be asymptomatic.
  • (2) The testing of other models and their failure to describe the kinetic observations are discussed.
  • (3) One of the main components was confirmed to be caffeic acid which had inhibitory effect on renal failure in mice by Ac1-P.
  • (4) During the procedure, acute respiratory failure developed as a result of tracheal obstruction.
  • (5) Erythrocyte membrane choline transport is abnormally high in chronic renal failure.
  • (6) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
  • (7) Fifty-two pairs of canine femora were tested to failure in four-point bending.
  • (8) Agarose-albumin beads may be useful for removing protein-bound substances from the blood of patients with liver failure, intoxication with protein-bound drugs, or specific metabolic deficits.
  • (9) Thus the failure to raise anti-Id with internal image characteristics may provide an explanation for the lack of anti-gp120 activity reported in anti-Id antisera raised to multiple anti-CD4 antibodies.
  • (10) Instead of later renal failure and, of course, mental retardation, it was the histological features of the fetus eyes which permit to diagnose and exhibit both congenital cataract and irido-corneal angle dysgenesis.
  • (11) Failure to develop an adequate resource will be costly in the long run.
  • (12) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
  • (13) Prognosis of patients with these autonomic failures is poor.
  • (14) The failure rates of the 2 regimens to suppress lactation were similar; however, rebound lactation occurred in a small proportion of women treated with bromocriptine.
  • (15) Lisinopril increases cardiac output, and decreases pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and mean arterial pressure in patients with congestive heart failure refractory to conventional treatment with digitalis and diuretics.
  • (16) Blood samples from 23 subjects with chronic renal failure and 19 controls were tested using thrombelastography and other hematologic tests.
  • (17) Cardiac pump function is not affected, even in patients with ventricular dysfunction or heart failure, in whom chronic oral administration of the drug is well tolerated.
  • (18) The high incidence and severity of haemodynamic complications (pulmonary oedema, generalized heart failure, cardiogenic shock) were the main cause of the high death-rate.
  • (19) A certain amount of relaparotomies after small bowel surgery is caused by technical failures, such as the technique of suturing the anastomosis and the kind of re-establishing the continuity of the bowel.
  • (20) Treatment failures tend to occur early in the course of follow-up, permitting easy identification of candidates for alternative therapeutic approaches.

Nonfulfillment


Definition:

  • (n.) Neglect or failure to fulfill.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chronically ill and disabled children are at risk for psychosexual disorders and nonfulfillment of sexual needs.
  • (2) The interview showed a 37% sensibility and a 97% specificity, which was specially usefull in the detection of nonfulfillers.
  • (3) On relation with the problems of collecting data, two centers show a nonfulfillment of the observation calendar higher than 20% and the logical divergences are not important.

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