What's the difference between inadvisable and prudent?

Inadvisable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not advisable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is concluded that it is inadvisable for a single observer to judge BMD when studying routine X-ray studies of the peripheral skeleton.
  • (2) The use of bucolome in infants with hyperbilirubinaemia is inadvisable.
  • (3) Our experience supports the use of this flap for local hand and forearm coverage when local tissue is unavailable and skin grafting is deemed inadvisable.
  • (4) Driving to meet Steve Horton, a US tax accountant whose clients include bankers, entrepreneurs and high-flying American lawyers based in France, the taxi driver passes Fouquet's, the expensive restaurant where Sarkozy inadvisedly celebrated his own election victory, in company with pop star Johnny Hallyday, film star Jean Reno and high-flying businessmen, prompting the coining of the soubriquet President Bling Bling.
  • (5) Yet it would be inadvisable to ban them, because that would drive people with eating disorders further into the shadows and away from potential help, she said.
  • (6) However, because of the inability to augment iron absorption to compensate for blood loss, it would be inadvisable for the patient with a partial gastrectomy to take a high dosage of aspirin for long periods of time, unless aspirin-induced blood loss is measured and shown to be very low.
  • (7) Species differences make extrapolation inadvisable.
  • (8) It is concluded that routine administration of DDAVP to CABG patients is inadvisable because hemodynamic side effects are potentially dangerous and therapeutic benefit is highly unlikely.
  • (9) Its use should particularly be considered in patients to whom the administration of radiographic contrast material is inadvisable.
  • (10) The use of inhalation anaesthetics is therefore inadvisable during bronchoscopy in adults unless sufficient anaesthetic scavenging can be established.
  • (11) Although commercial test kits for detecting elevated levels of maternal serum AFP were approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1983, ACOG has opposed their routine use on the grounds that the high incidence of false positive results makes it inadvisable to use the test in pregnant women who do not have access to high-quality follow-up tests and counseling.
  • (12) Contraindications include difficulty in establishing an adequate pneumoperitoneum; acute peritonitis, ileus, or intestinal obstruction; and inadvisability of penumoperitoneum or Trendelenburg position.
  • (13) Thymus tissue which is not removed during the operation is one of the causes of recurrent myasthenia, while unjustified extension of the volume of the operation in nonneoplastic affection of the thymus is also inadvisable.
  • (14) The light microscopical diagnoses of "reticulum cell sarcoma" seems now inadvisable, since thhe majority of these cases, when examined by electron microscopy, were found to be "blast cell sarcomas", probably lymphoid in nature.
  • (15) There are occasions when intermaxillary fixation may be inadvisable, and in these instances external fixation techniques may be an appropriate means of immobilization.
  • (16) If a paramedian sternotomy is proved, simple reclosure is inadvisable.
  • (17) The use of ampicillin as a single agent for the treatment of pyelonephritis, however, is inadvisable.
  • (18) It is concluded that operation for unilateral cataract is inadvisable, if the vision of the fellow eye is good and contact lenses cannot be used, that the time between operations for bilateral cataract should be as short as possible, and that the use of contact lenses is essential.
  • (19) Results are presented indicating the inadvisability of using lower animals as test subjects with the aim of predicting toxicity for higher animals.
  • (20) We present a case in which ovarian function was annuled through radiotherapy, instead of resorting to the most commonly used oophorectomy, since the patient's severe respiratory dysfunction made surgery inadvisable.

Prudent


Definition:

  • (a.) Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct; practically wise; judicious; careful; discreet; sensible; -- opposed to rash; as, a prudent man; dictated or directed by prudence or wise forethought; evincing prudence; as, prudent behavior.
  • (a.) Frugal; economical; not extravagant; as, a prudent woman; prudent expenditure of money.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Based on these observations, the authors think it prudent to remove such dressings before performing leukocyte imaging.
  • (2) The potential benefits in terms of more rapid return to work, maintenance of the patient's psychosocial integrity, and modification of natural history of the disease make the institution of a cardiac rehabilitation program a prudent activity for a practitioner, clinic, or hospital.
  • (3) Regardless of the exact dose per fraction chosen, it seems prudent to use relatively low doses per fraction initially to maximize the chance of detecting any benefit inherent in the use of neutrons, before exploring increased doses for reasons of improved cost-effectiveness.
  • (4) One would be prudent to avoid marijuana during pregnancy, just as one would do with most other drugs not essential to life or well-being.
  • (5) It seems prudent to avoid hypertriglyceridemia secondary to intravenous fat emulsions, as this alone is a cause of pancreatitis, albeit uncommon, in patients with abnormalities of triglyceride metabolism.
  • (6) For the present, prudent clinical practice should include avoidance of whole blood, fresh frozen plasma, and platelet transfusions and greater reliance on autologous blood transfusions.
  • (7) The author suggests that the most prudent course would be to direct health care providers to accept family decisions unless it appears that the family is acting out of ignorance or in bad faith, in which case the decision would be referred to a hospital ethicist or ethics committee and then--only if there were good grounds to suspect ignorance or bad faith--to judicial review.
  • (8) Based on the currently available data, it seems prudent to diagnose diabetes mellitus only if fasting hyperglycemia is present.
  • (9) From what we know about food adequacy, preparation, and storage, the notion that the postulated "primitive" diet was generally adequate, safe, and prudent can be rejected.
  • (10) Taking out such a deal was, in their view, tantamount to getting into bed with the devil – and certainly out of the question for a prudent financial journalist.
  • (11) It may be prudent to obtain a drug history and urine screen for cocaine before instituting indomethacin therapy for preterm labor or polyhydramnios.
  • (12) Because of the risks of increasing late effects, either due to direct thermal damage or thermo-radiosensitization of normal tissues, it is not prudent to proceed with such testing in sites where there is a risk of excessive normal tissue heating.
  • (13) In such cases especially prudent care is required, for the prognosis may be poor.
  • (14) The National Cancer Institute (NCI) believes that the potential for dietary changes to reduce the risk of cancer is considerable and that the existing scientific data provide evidence that is sufficiently consistent to warrant prudent interim dietary guidelines that will promote good health and reduce the risk of some types of cancer.
  • (15) Three cases of primary adenocarcinoma of the Fallopian tube have been treated at the Gynecology Department of Hospital A. C. Camargo, Fundación A. Prudente, São Paulo, between 1972-1987.
  • (16) For this reason it recommends that banks provide a separate set of accounts drawn up on "prudent principles".
  • (17) The incorporation of interference into niche theory clarifies the competitive phenomenon of unstable equilibrium points, excess density compensation on islands, competitive avoidance by escape in time and space, the persistence of the "prudent predator," and the magnitude of the difference between the size of a species' fundamental niche and its realized niche.
  • (18) It increases in relative importance along with improvement in socioeconomic and environmental conditions and in association with prudent lifestyle.
  • (19) As drug-induced erythroid hypoplasia typically occurs after a relatively long period of dosing, it may be prudent in certain individuals to monitor the CBC at approximately bimonthly intervals after initiation of therapy.
  • (20) These results revealed specific shortcomings in the dietary habits of the CORIS population and emphasised the need for changes necessary to meet the requirements for a prudent diet.