What's the difference between inadequate and underdose?
Inadequate
Definition:
(a.) Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions, representations, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
(2) Treatment for diabetic neuropathy remains inadequate.
(3) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
(4) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
(5) Pure bile gave 32 correct diagnoses (67%) and 14 diagnoses of inadequate material (29%), which contained few nondegenerated cells and made microscopic diagnosis unreliable.
(6) Correlations between measures of learning style and academic performance yielded low, nonsignificant positive correlations and were found to be inadequate predictors of academic performance.
(7) Furthermore, a single initial field may constitute an inadequate baseline for clinical follow-up.
(8) The selected students had normal intellectual capacity but often showed inadequate progress in school, attentive-mnemonic deficiencies, and psychopathological elements of a depressive nature.
(9) Given the liberalist context in which we live, this paper argues that an act-oriented ethics is inadequate and that only a virtue-oriented ethics enables us to recognize and resolve the new problems ahead of us in genetic manipulation.
(10) These results suggest that the Eco RI site in the flanking region of the 21-hydroxylase gene may be modified in adrenal cancer tissue, and that inadequate 21-hydroxylase is present in some forms of adrenal cancers.
(11) This has stemmed from an inadequate understanding of the mechanisms involved in the formation and propagation of this condition.
(12) Following the surgery, one patient continued to exhibit PLEDs but clinical seizures were absent PLEDs recurred in the second patient due to inadequate anticonvulsant medication.
(13) The relatively high HI titres observed, particularly in adults, imply that antigenic restimulation of antibody against measles occurs and thus that coverage by immunization remains inadequate.
(14) Poor workplace health and safety, inadequate toilet facilities and dangerous fumes from mosquito fogging that led to one asylum seeker with asthma collapsing were all raised as concerns by Kilburn, although he stressed that he believed G4S management and expatriate G4S staff acted appropriately.
(15) Glucose utilization and lactate production were inadequate with respect to the immature cell population.
(16) The identifiable causes of child drowning are absence of a safety barrier or fence around the water hazard, non-supervision of a child, a parental "vulnerable period", an inadequate safety barrier, and tempting objects in or on the water.
(17) There was inadequate evidence to indicate that the higher risk of neuropsychiatric disability for painters might have been due to their occupational exposure to organic solvents.
(18) The objective of this investigation was to determine the frequency of and predictors for inadequate barium enemas in the frail elderly.
(19) No difference was found in the extent of infarct size, occurrence of heart failure, arrhythmias, and mortality when comparing the adequately with the inadequately controlled diabetics during a hospitalization period of 11 days.
(20) Six patients had a partial, but inadequate response, while four did not respond.
Underdose
Definition:
(n.) A dose which is less than required; a small or insufficient dose.
(v. t. & i.) To give an underdose or underdoses to; to practice giving insufficient doses.
Example Sentences:
(1) In renal failure patients, there is obviously not only the risk of overdosing and toxic side effects but also the risk of insufficient bactericidal effect as a result of underdosing.
(2) Eleven other lions, nine of which were initially underdosed, required additional injections of the drug combination for safe handling.
(3) Using the models of simulated air cavities, combined air cavity and air channel, and taking measurement with a small window parallel plate ionization chamber in solid phantoms, it is found that the air spaces in the human body will cause underdose or overdose at the exit air space surface for 10MV X-ray and Co-60 r-ray.
(4) As there was no evidence that higher mianserin (plus metabolite) steady-state concentrations were associated with a more favourable effect, the negative outcome appeared not to be related to underdosing with mianserin.
(5) Underdosed mass drug administration and subcurative medication have this direct effect.
(6) Variability in V was not significantly different than variability in CL, and may result in severe underdosing or overdosing.
(7) An average of 22% of the target volume was underdosed at the 95% isodose level with the 2D plans compared to 7% with the 3D plans.
(8) However, mid-plane planning was shown to be totally inadequate for off-axis planes, where the average target gradient and underdose scores were reduced by 10 units.
(9) An explanation for the observed underdose is also presented.
(10) These data indicate that etoposide bioavailability is not constant and oral therapy may lead to unsuspected underdosing or unexpected toxicity in schedules extending over several days.
(11) However, tumors growing on the surface of the air cavities do cause serious concern by conscientious radiation therapists and physicist about the possibility of underdose.
(12) (2) Caution is advisable when a transplant team adopts a new cyclosporine assay for clinical use; formal study between existing assay methods and any newly adopted assay is warranted to prevent inadvertent underdosing or overdosing with cyclosporine.
(13) In 50% of new diagnoses medication was underdosed, in some cases medication was wrong or not broad enough.
(14) In conclusion, these data caution about the risk of underdosing 6-mercaptopurine in overweight children when administering it on the basis of body surface area.
(15) Serum TSH mainly prevents the underdose of patients but cannot help in case of overdose.
(16) The upper neck nodes may be underdosed since this is 20% cooler than the lateral-anterior neck dose (where a large 120% hot spot exists).
(17) As changes in pharmacokinetic parameters will alter dosage requirements, dosage regimens cannot be transferred from one age group to another without the risk of underdosing or overdosing.
(18) As a result, unanticipated underdosing inside the field and greater dose outside the field can occur when high-energy X rays are used.
(19) He cautioned of the impending crisis while accepting his Nobel prize in 1945 : “There is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.” But scientific innovation, and increased awareness, has shown the severity of the threat.
(20) It is concluded that, usually from unjustified fear of exceeding the "tolerance limit", radiotherapy of glioblastomas is underdosed.