What's the difference between forestalling and obviation?
Forestalling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forestall
Example Sentences:
(1) Mastitis in its complexity has managed to forestall all efforts of eradication in spite of years of research, antibiotics and practical control measures.
(2) His message suggested a Grexit was now inevitable as he stressed the need for EU humanitarian programmes to forestall social implosion in Greece.
(3) From the psychologic standpoint, plastic surgeons are now challenging their patients to help themselves in such an overall program to forestall the effects of aging.
(4) Obama may prefer to consider that his lasting contribution to international affairs has been a landmark diplomatic accord to forestall an Iranian nuclear weapon, or the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba .
(5) Such legislation needs to be carefully designed in order to achieve its objectives and forestall new, financially abusive arrangements.
(6) There is current interest in the possibility of developing interventions that forestall the normal cognitive decline in elderly adults.
(7) Treatment needs to be multidisciplinary in approach, and to be started early to forestall a number of organic complications associated with reduced appetite control and significant overweight.
(8) In patients with chronic symptoms, surgery is indicated to forestall further local infectious complications, and a single-stage sigmoid resection without hysterectomy may be adequate.
(9) In the next century we will see a serious test of whether or not mankind has lost its ability to foresee and forestall the side effects of scientific and technological ingenuity.
(10) The big four are understood to be driving a similarly hard bargain with Spotify, which has had its US launch forestalled by industry negotiations.
(11) This presentation describes the organization of disaster relief work after the earthquake, the rescue of buried victims, the organization of medical resources, and the sanitation work to forestall epidemics.
(12) Prevention of glycosylation with aminoguanidine has forestalled complications in experimental diabetes.
(13) Moreover, neurons are also protected from excitotoxin-induced death by the addition to the culture medium of either superoxide dismutase or mannitol, which scavenge superoxide and hydroxyl radicals, respectively, or serine protease inhibitor, which forestalls formation of xanthine oxidase.
(14) Overdentures designed to prevent direct occlusal trauma to the residual ridge may either forestall or reduce residual ridge resorption.
(15) These results suggest that home nursing care assists patients with forestalling distress from symptoms and maintaining their independence longer in comparison to no home nursing care.
(16) The ability of long-acting fluphenazine decanoate and oral fluphenazine hydrochloride to forestall relapse among newly discharge schizophrenic patients is examined in the context of high and low degrees of social therapy (ST).
(17) There is no need for asymptomatic people with HIV infection to restrict their lives in order to avoid exposure to stressful life experiences or to develop special skills for coping with stress to forestall the progression of HIV illness.
(18) The ultimate strategy lies in improving the quality of life in these communities through adequate housing, sanitation, and health education, and integrating primary prophylaxis into national health care programs to forestall the development of rheumatic fever.
(19) It's an attempt to forestall a controversy that is taking place anyway.
(20) The organize language groups for the elderly appeared urgent in order to forestall a deterioration of their faculties and strengthen those faculties which could be maintained.
Obviation
Definition:
(n.) The act of obviating, or the state of being obviated.
Example Sentences:
(1) The phenylalanine model allows the rapid assessment of whole body and muscle protein turnover from plasma samples alone, obviating the need for measurement of expired air CO2 production or enrichment.
(2) In this series, the association between the anomalous ductal insertion and biliary tract disease cannot be established, since the method of patient selection obviates any epidemiologic consideration.
(3) The intracellular localization of tachyzoites facilitated diagnosis by obviating potential confusion of extracellular tachyzoites with cellular debris or platelets.
(4) Still, there are some aspects of Palin’s channel to recommend it to the devoted movement conservative that isn’t necessarily already a fan of hers – especially its obviating the need to resort to Palinology.
(5) Thorough monitoring during surgery, careful selection of patients, and close communication between the surgeon and anesthesiologist permit safe anesthesia, can decrease operating time, and usually obviate the need for transfusions.
(6) Cotrel-Dubousset instrumentation (CDI) has been gaining popularity in scoliosis surgery because of their improved rigidity which can obviate the need for a brace in most cases.
(7) Postoperative radiotherapy appeared to be effective in obviating local recurrence in patients with adenoid cystic carcinoma of the trachea.
(8) Dosage adjustments usually obviate unwanted effects except for paradoxical reactions such as hostility.
(9) Using nuclear runoff transcription assays we demonstrated that alpha interferon-mediated induction of transcription of four mRNAs in HeLa monolayer cells needed ongoing protein synthesis and that such a need could be obviated by pretreating the cells with gamma interferon which, by itself, did not induce transcription of these mRNAs.
(10) It obviates the need for excision in patients who fulfill the aforementioned criteria.
(11) In summary, endoscopic dilatation for postgastroplasty strictures is a useful and effective technique, obviating the need for operative revision in the majority of patients; however, when the stenosis is associated with channel angulation, dilatation is almost uniformly unsuccessful.
(12) To obviate this problem, we have covalently attached deferoxamine to high molecular weight carbohydrates such as dextran and hydroxyethyl starch.
(13) Serum components inhibit DNA polymerase, thereby obviating direct detection of serum viral DNA sequences by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
(14) Sources say Elisabeth, who turned 44 on Wednesday, has no desire to leave Britain and believes her father can carry on for at least another 10 years, obviating any need for a succession decision.
(15) Gastric resection may still be unavoidable as a diagnostic procedure in a minority of cases and may represent the primary therapeutic procedure in clinically assessed early-stage and low-risk patients, but it cannot be considered mandatory whenever possible merely for debulking purposes or to obviate possible perforation or hemorrhage.
(16) The use of a malleable curved disposable suction cautery for the control of any persistent bleeding at the conclusion of adenoidectomy in over 1000 cases has prevented any primary postoperative hemorrhages from the nasopharynx, and obviated the need for post-nasal packing.
(17) These responses can be obviated by intravascular volume expansion.
(18) In older patients the finding could be misinterpreted as evidence of extracranial cerebrovascular disease, but clinical considerations should obviate unnecessary neuroradiological diagnostic procedures.
(19) Elective caesarean section at 38 weeks' gestation may obviate the problem, since it prevents trauma during vaginal delivery but it will not eliminate neurological sequelae in those infants who have already suffered antenatal intracranial bleeding, an entity now well described in these fetuses.
(20) Timely intervention by other diagnostic modalities may obviate the consideration of chemotherapy in cases where there are no liver metastases.