What's the difference between feebly and infirmly?
Feebly
Definition:
(adv.) In a feeble manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cartilage graft is therefore antigenic but only feebly immunogenic, as the matrix proteoglycans protect the cells from the afferent arm of the immune response.
(2) The vitreous is feebly antigenic and is characterized by the absence of gamma-globulins and immunocompetent cells.
(3) It was shown that accumulation of the products of oxidation in liposomes, which occurred in the process of their incubation, feebly influenced the ability of liposomes to adsorb on the surface of the clay mineral.
(4) At higher levels, primase action is blocked, but RNA pol alone can initiate replication, albeit feebly; at these high levels of auxiliary proteins, primase and RNA pol act synergistically.
(5) In a typically water animal (Phocaenoides dalli) the cervical thickening is expressed feebly, the lumbar one is absent, the epidural space is developed better than in terrestrial and semiwater animals.
(6) It was quite clear that the agenda was very, very feebly thought through and it was a disaster."
(7) The rate with which excess [K+]0 was cleared was either feebly or not at all influenced by variation of the intensity and frequency of stimulation.
(8) Evidence is presented that lymphocytes characterised by being large and having abundant feebly staining, and usually profusely granulated cytoplasm ('pale' cells) are a group which is distinct from the other small basophilic ('dark') cells.
(9) Stained DNA could be feebly visualized directly in Sm run in agarose gel, which improved after its separation and concentration.
(10) Temperature relationships of rotational correlation times (tau M) of lysozyme molecules were studied using viscosity method based on the model of slow feebly anisotropic rotation of label N-O-group.
(11) Generously, they settled for only one more, in stoppage time, when the substitute James Milner launched a long ball forward, Jan Vertonghen feebly hung out his leg and suddenly Jesús Navas was running clear.
(12) The filamentous form of polymer was found to inhibit strongly the haemagglutination of some (;sensitive') strains but not of other (;insensitive') strains of influenza virus; the ;intermediate' form feebly inhibited haemagglutination by ;sensitive' strains.
(13) The microsomal membrane microviscosity is shown to sharply decrease under conditions of the antioxidant deficiency with vitamin E expelled into animals normalizes microviscosity, but feebly influences the microsomal surface charge.
(14) It cannot be obtained in saliva, a feebly polar medium.
(15) The intermediate filaments here are either utterly absent or present so feebly they find themselves "disguised" by other strongly developed components of cytoskeleton and revealing them with the help of technique of electron microscope is impossible.
(16) Many of the urban workers, too poor to pay rent sufficient to meet the costs of these environmental services, were shuffled among damp dingy rooms into which the sun shone feebly and in which their physical odours were confined against any draughts.
(17) Defenders of social security fight back feebly with mere facts.
(18) Ultrastructural analysis shows them to be masses of amorphous material, feebly osmiophilic, outlined by a unitary membrane the moniliform aspect of which recalls the ergastoplasmic membrane.
(19) Many other types of compounds derived from 1-methyl-2-amino-5-nitroimidazole are feebly active.
(20) The iron diminished the tetracycline effect only feebly with one staphylococcal strain and the strain of E. rhusiopathiae.
Infirmly
Definition:
(adv.) In an infirm manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) The thrust of health care "solutions" in the press and in Congress focus on the infirm.
(2) Those allocated a diagnosis of dementia were most impaired and confused, and those living in specialist homes for the mentally infirm were more impaired than other residents.
(3) Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe I is for Italy He lived for many years in a mountain-top retreat in Ravello on the Amalfi coast until he became too infirm to cope with the hills.
(4) Anyone who is pregnant, breastfeeding or infirm should talk to a GP before taking the herb.
(5) The cell bodies of the AVCN did not seem altered infirming a rapid, direct or indirect, neurotoxic effect of the drug.
(6) This paper describes one of the first attempts at an economic evaluation of a community care initiative for elderly mentally infirm people and their carers.
(7) It appears to become more severe with advanced age and other infirmities, such as immobility.
(8) It was one of at least half a dozen such unionist experiments, with a variety of partners, which foundered on the rocks of the would-be partners' infirmity of purpose, fear, suspicion and disdain of this bizarre, arrogant, impetuous upstart.
(9) While the courts welcome Russian oligarchs whose disputes have nothing to do with this country, they close their doors to the cheated, the battered and the infirm from the native poor.
(10) Swing your gaze from the aged and infirm to your fit and healthy peers here and abroad embracing fascism and poor-bashing.
(11) Other factors included pre-existing locomotor disorder or mental infirmity, unmanageable incontinence of urine after catheterisation, and institutional disorientation.
(12) The increasing infirmity of the aged often associated with tiredness, dyspnea and dizziness even without treatment requires careful instruction of the patient about effects and side effects of the prescribed medication.
(13) 11.01am BST Lord Norman Tebbit , the Tory former cabinet minister, says he worries such a bill would bring great pressure on the old, infirm or disabled to consider ending their lives so as to not be a financial burden on others.
(14) If "pain" in the broad sense of the term lends itself to objective evaluation with difficulty, it is not the same with respect to infirmity.
(15) The results of one such arrangement where a geriatrician was involved in the weekly review of the elderly mentally infirm patients are described.
(16) The dual rating system eliminates the problem of declining knee scores associated with patient infirmity.
(17) Neurotic applicants for an infirmity-pension belong to the group of problem patients for attending general practitioners and specialists alike.
(18) Please do not let us remember only the sick and infirm.
(19) Yet every local authority in the land allows men like these as well as our sick, elderly and infirm to be left to the tender mercies of profiteers and cowboys.
(20) Now staff and volunteers hunched over the infirm, dispensing sips of water and fanning them with bits of cardboard.