What's the difference between incapability and incapacity?

Incapability


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being incapable; incapacity.
  • (n.) Want of legal qualifications, or of legal power; as, incapability of holding an office.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Absorption of this serum with embryo cells eliminated cytotoxicity against MCA-2 and MCA-12 cells, but was incapable of lowering the titer against MCA-3 cells below 1:40.
  • (2) CP analogues that lacked the NH group at N3 or were otherwise incapable of alkyl isocyanate release were inactive.
  • (3) An analysis of 22 non-invasive EPEC TnphoA mutants revealed that seven have insertions in the EAF plasmid and are incapable of localized adherence.
  • (4) Exact comparisons of recovery of ocular tone (Maddox Wing test) between the anaesthetics were not possible as both Althesin and methohexitone rendered some patients incapable of taking the tests in the early post-operative period.
  • (5) Similarly, the fetus is an ideal recipient of allogeneic fetal cells as it is incapable of rejecting them early in gestation.
  • (6) Myocardial perfusion is best evaluated at rest and during exercise, however, alternative methods have been sought to increase coronary blood flow in patients incapable of performing adequate exercise.
  • (7) Cocaine was considered incapable of producing dependence in 1980 but was recently proclaimed the drug of greatest national health concern.
  • (8) We have documented that the profoundly depressed postcardiotomy left ventricle, initially incapable of ejection, can recover during total left ventricular unloading with the abdominal left ventricular assist device support over a seven-day period.
  • (9) Results are presented which show that the D-xylose isomerases present in Streptomyces olivaceus and Streptomyces phaeochromogenes NRRL B-3559 are incapable of utilizing D-lyxose as a substrate.
  • (10) In contrast, all three molecules were incapable of inducing IFN-alpha when added into either purified monocyte or lymphocyte cultures.
  • (11) Extracts of liver and lung were incapable of catabolizing any of the analogues.
  • (12) In fact the then president, Amadou Toumani Touré, known as "ATT" more out of derision than any sense of affection, was viewed as deeply corrupt and incapable of delivering the changes that Mali – still one of the five least-developed countries in the world – needed.
  • (13) On Thursday, conservative analyst Ross Douthat wrote: “A party whose leading factions often seemed incapable of budging from 1980s-era dogma suddenly caved completely.” On Friday, former top Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod tweeted : “The Day After: seems as if @GOP establishment is measuring @realDonaldTrump as a moldable vessel.
  • (14) I seem incapable of capturing the stories of those I meet.
  • (15) It can bring about specialized transduction of proAB and phoE mutants of E. coli, but it is incapable of general transduction.
  • (16) It said Damascus had proved itself "incapable of using its weapons systems proportionately or discriminately" and had fired lethal Scud missiles against its own cities, such as Aleppo.
  • (17) In the 1990s he was almost incapable of not writing a masterpiece – The Human Stain, The Plot Against America, I Married a Communist.
  • (18) Methaemoglobin is incapable of transporting oxygen.
  • (19) Sheep infection trials indicate that the PLD-negative C. pseudotuberculosis strain (Toxminus) is incapable of inducing caseous lymphadentis (cheesy gland) even at doses two logs higher than that at which the wild-type strain produces the disease.
  • (20) Cotransformants of yeast cells by two partially homologous plasmids, one of which is incapable of autonomous replication, has been used to construct multiply marked recombinant plasmids.

Incapacity


Definition:

  • (n.) Want of capacity; lack of physical or intellectual power; inability.
  • (n.) Want of legal ability or competency to do, give, transmit, or receive something; inability; disqualification; as, the inacapacity of minors to make binding contracts, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The level of stability of the ratio (alpha coefficient) of maximal ventilation (MBC) over maximal expiratory volume per second (FEV1) was continued statistically for its practical value in estimating the respiratory functional incapacity.
  • (2) job losses In areas where the local economy was strong, there were much lower incapacity claimant rates.
  • (3) They used graphic illustrations of time series with a regression line which indicates a rising or declining trend of work incapacity.
  • (4) By means of the inquiry method, informations were obtained regarding the appraisement of temporary working incapacity, performed by 76 doctors, of whom 45 general practitioners and 31 factory doctors.
  • (5) The progressive effect of Alzheimer's disease was followed in a 58 year old woman over three and a half years from the development of the earliest symptoms to complete mental incapacity.
  • (6) The role of stimulated T cells in the induction of B mitoses was shown by (a) the incapacity of T-depleted spleen cells to be stimulated by PHA or in primary or secondary MLC, and (b) the restoration of the mitotic response of B cells to PHA by adding to the T cell-depleted culture either a very small number of T cell (identified by their different karyotype: "in vitro chimeras") or the cell-free supernatant of a 24 hr MLC.
  • (7) The hypothesis tested was that cognitive factors in the generation of stress, namely perceived coping incapacity (PCI), relate to the extent of psychosomatic ailments.
  • (8) She emphasizes the mortality life expectancy at birth, abortion rate, work incapacity on account of illness and injury, morbidity from diabetes and tuberculosis, the trend of newly detected malignant tumours and causes of invalidity.
  • (9) Incapacity is the clinical state in which a patient is unable to participate in a meaningful way in medical decisions.
  • (10) The latter is now considered unnecessary as it serves merely to prolong duration of the patient's incapacity and to increase the cost of treatment.
  • (11) Geriatric patients showed physical and intellectual incapacity, psychiatric patients intellectual incapacity.
  • (12) There was no statistically significant difference in the frequency of recurrent myocardial infarction and in mortality depending on the size of the infarct suffered, while incapacity for work was encountered more frequently among persons in whom cardiac aneurysm has bee suspected.
  • (13) The chronic pain is the main cause of incapacity and may be responsible for the secondary articular alterations in theses patients.
  • (14) Testing the reliability and usefulness of disability scales in Parkinson's disease has been the object of a study carried out by 4 neurologists on 48 patients using 2 rating scales--Hoehn and Yahr staging and Columbia University Rating Scale--and 2 disability scales--Northwestern University Disability Scale and Extensive Disability Scale, a new scale conceived for this purpose, which is more accurate in examining in a different way the physical incapacity and handicap of parkinsonian patients in their daily living.
  • (15) Whilst long term disability rarely eventuates, the loss of enjoyment and temporary incapacity resulting from this type of injury is significant.
  • (16) In many patients, the tumours grew slowly and gave little incapacity.
  • (17) He added: "We are pressing ahead with radically overhauling the welfare system, with reassessments of those on incapacity benefits in Burnley and Aberdeen beginning this week.
  • (18) The following reasons are given for this conclusion : the direct surgical approach only rarely leads to isolation of the causal organism; although treatment based on knowledge of antibiotic sensitivity may help to restrict evolution of the disease, it does not reduce significantly, or only rarely, the permanent partial incapacity.
  • (19) Whatever the type of deficiency a child may have, and the subsequent incapacity, it is important to discern for therapy, the positive aspects of his personality as soon as possible in order to develop his chances for success and avoid set backs.
  • (20) We also demonstrate that the failure of low doses of IL2 to induce LAK activity is related to their incapacity to induce TNF production.

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