What's the difference between highly and unduly?

Highly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a high manner, or to a high degree; very much; as, highly esteemed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cancer patients showed abnormally high plasma free tryptophan levels.
  • (2) Results by these three assays were also highly reproducible.
  • (3) This trend appeared to reverse itself in the low dose animals after 3 hr, whereas in the high dose group, cardiac output continued to decline.
  • (4) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
  • (5) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
  • (6) The angiographic appearances are highly characteristic and equal in value to a histological diagnosis.
  • (7) When micF was cloned into a high-copy-number plasmid it repressed ompF gene expression, whereas when cloned into a low-copy-number plasmid it did not.
  • (8) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
  • (9) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
  • (10) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
  • (11) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
  • (12) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
  • (13) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
  • (14) These results demonstrate that increased availability of galactose, a high-affinity substrate for the enzyme, leads to increased aldose reductase messenger RNA, which suggests a role for aldose reductase in sugar metabolism in the lens.
  • (15) Five probes of high specificity to individual chromosomes (chromosomes 3, 11, 17, 18 and X) were hybridized in situ to metaphase chromosomes of different individuals.
  • (16) Morphological alterations in the lungs of pheasants after prolonged high-dosage administration of bleomycin sulfate were studied by light and electron microscopy.
  • (17) In vitro studies carried out in this Department confirmed the high activity of mecillinam against Salmonella spp.
  • (18) The high transition enthalpy for kerasin is ascribed to a lesser accommodation of gauche conformers in the hydrocarbon chains just below the transition temperature.
  • (19) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
  • (20) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.

Unduly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In an undue manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results indicate that infants undergoing intensive care are unduly stressed.
  • (2) If transportation is unduly delayed, immediate linear incision and suction may be of value.
  • (3) Also, occasional instances of unduly elevated serum TSH titers were found.
  • (4) The patient's unduly rapid response to chemotherapy suggested that the procedure had effected a substantial reduction in the leukocyte mass.
  • (5) The results of the modified Elek test were not unduly influenced by the different types of agar used.
  • (6) The Jefferson girls Do not have flat behinds, but theirs are cleanly shaped and not unduly full.
  • (7) In extensive-stage disease, A RDI correlated positively with CR+, PR but only in randomized trials, and this correlation lost statistical significance after unduly influential observations were eliminated.
  • (8) Predictions based on very early assessment are, therefore, often unduly pessimistic.
  • (9) Selegiline as an adjunctive agent to conventional levodopa therapy was not unduly impressive with regard to preventing progression of Parkinson's disease.
  • (10) From these data, and against specified epidemiologic criteria for significance, the possibility that particular helmets were associated unduly with cerebral and spinal neurotrauma was examined.
  • (11) The use of simulated data has shown that the recommended methods are not unduly sensitive to experimental error.
  • (12) On the other hand, when cow milk is fed together with beikost, infants receive unnecessarily high intakes of protein and electrolytes, resulting in an unduly high renal solute load.
  • (13) It doesn’t matter that all other developed nations have robust pro-labor politics: in America, that sort of thing is for college students or anyone unduly high.
  • (14) The preparation was not unduly sensitive to tubocurarine at 0 days and there was little evidence of T4:T1 fade.
  • (15) Many, however, were concerned about “dropping the ‘patient’ language in the statement, whenever that might occur, as risking a shift in market expectations for the beginning of policy firming toward an unduly narrow range of dates.
  • (16) These data suggest that intestinal colonization may have been an important reservoir for this outbreak, and the findings may explain the unduly prolonged course of intrahospital spread as well as the difficulty encountered in the eradication and control of the outbreak.
  • (17) Later, when we are driving back towards Castle Stuart golf club, host to the Scottish Open championship, Salmond seems unduly relieved that his speech seems to have gone well and seeks reassurance.
  • (18) He had had a paranoid walk to the hotel across Manchester with too much eye contact from passers-by that had unduly [un]nerved him.
  • (19) To this they add a presentation of their own cases treated by posterolateral arthrodesis, noting that this method is not unduly difficult to perform and gives good results in a high percentage of cases.
  • (20) Amnesics' difficulty in recollecting events (and partially learned facts) from before the onset of their disease (retrograde amnesia) is explicable in terms of interference between current events and prior events in similar contexts in patients who are unduly controlled by their current context.

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