What's the difference between feasible and operable?

Feasible


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable.
  • (a.) Fit to be used or tailed, as land.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
  • (2) Such an approach to investigations into subclinical mastitis is not feasible by means of either single- or double-parameter techniques.
  • (3) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
  • (4) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
  • (5) Both demonstrated concurrent validity and feasibility.
  • (6) We studied the feasibility of using RNA and DNA from autopsies for Northern and Southern blot analysis.
  • (7) Interexaminer reliability studies indicate that a standard method of motion palpation is quite feasible and accurate.
  • (8) The feasibility of estimating these parameters, demonstrated by the present study, suggests that a recursive least squares estimation procedure could be used to recover the time variation of each parameter during exercise stress testing of subjects with normal or nearly normal gas exchange.
  • (9) In blood, ablation of porcine aorta was feasible at a distance of 3 mm.
  • (10) Therefore, it is feasible that there is a good correlation with alteration of insulin sensitivity and insulin binding.
  • (11) It appears that irrespective of the elucidation of the nature of the putative aetiological factor (presumed to be viral) in MS, the arrest and reversal of T cell-related events within the CNS in this devastating condition represent feasible goals and should remain a major target for some time to come.
  • (12) The signals after lyophilization reflect biochemical differences between tumour and muscle; spectroscopic data indicate that it is feasible to determine the molecular basis of these differences.
  • (13) If, as in most cases, the feasibility of various methods (exposure to chemical products, monoclonal antibodies and complement-dependent cytolysis, immuno-magnetic procedures) has been confirmed, no study to date has shown the efficacy.
  • (14) The direct measurement of adiposity, using hydrostatic weighing and other techniques, is not feasible in studies involving young children or with large numbers of older subjects.
  • (15) The feasibility of using fluorescent ISH for sexing biopsied embryos in couples at risk of X-linked disease and for the preimplantation diagnosis of chromosome abnormalities is discussed.
  • (16) The DRG principle, however, is feasible and has important management benefits; it is recommended that locally determined DRG weightings be developed, and that other hospitals explore their use in peer review of resource management, costing and pricing.
  • (17) The feasibility of early discharge on the day following surgery was studied in a prospective manner in 29 consecutive breast cancer patients; 27 underwent unilateral modified radical mastectomy and 2 bilateral mastectomies by a single surgeon.
  • (18) Because of the relatively high levels of endogenous TH in tadpoles during climax, the use of an in vivo saturation assay employing [125I]T3 was not feasible.
  • (19) The identification of high-risk patient subgroups is possible, and it is feasible to link this data base with clinical and biochemical data.
  • (20) Significantly, their derivation demonstrates the feasibility of immortalizing differentiated neurons by targeting tumorigenesis in transgenic mice to specific neurons of the CNS.

Operable


Definition:

  • (a.) Practicable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
  • (2) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
  • (3) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
  • (4) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
  • (5) Seventeen patients (Group 1) had had no previous surgery, while 13 (Group 2) had had multiple previous operations.
  • (6) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
  • (7) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
  • (8) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
  • (9) At operation, the tumour was identified and excised with part of the aneurysmal wall.
  • (10) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
  • (11) No consistent relationship could be found between the time interval from SAH to operation and the severity of vasospasm.
  • (12) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
  • (13) The present findings indicate that the deafferented [or isolated] hypothalamus remains neuronally isolated from the environment if the operation is carried out later than the end of the first week of life.
  • (14) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
  • (15) In the past 6 years 26 patients underwent operation for recurrent duodenal ulcer after what was considered to be an "adequate" initial operation.
  • (16) The operative arteriograms confirmed vascular occlusive phenomenon.
  • (17) The reference library used in the operation of a computerized search program indicates the closest matches in the reference library data with the IR spectrum of an unknown sample.
  • (18) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
  • (19) Six of the patients were operated using the McIndoe and Bannister technique while on the other two the Tobin and Day technique was used.
  • (20) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.