What's the difference between inceptive and initial?

Inceptive


Definition:

  • (a.) Beginning; expressing or indicating beginning; as, an inceptive proposition; an inceptive verb, which expresses the beginning of action; -- called also inchoative.
  • (n.) An inceptive word, phrase, or clause.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Inception rate of persons was 0.73 versus 0.48, and point prevalence rates 0.002 versus 0.001, whilst period prevalence rates were 0.016 versus 0.011 for the study and control factories respectively.
  • (2) These are the first western depictions of our animals, and what they represent are the inception of the specific cultural politics which your nation forced on my continent, its land and its people with unhesitating colonial brutality.
  • (3) Its instrumentation and organisation are described and a consecutive sample of 1000 ECGs culled from the 50,000 computerised since its inception are discussed.
  • (4) Even the most popular Shia cleric, Sayyed Mohammed Fadlallah , a man who has deeply affected the thinking of key Hezbollah leaders and cadres since the party's inception, now says in no uncertain terms that Shias and the country as a whole want to see, and should see, a strong Lebanese army as the nation's sole protector; and that the perpetually unstable confessional system must be ended as soon as possible.
  • (5) This usually occurs 10 to 25 days after the inception of high-dose intravenous therapy and resolves when the penicillin therapy is discontinued.
  • (6) For each major diagnostic caterogy, with the exception of reactive depression and paranoid states, the inception rates are significantly higher among West Africans than West Indians.
  • (7) To identify prognostic factors in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), the authors studied an inception cohort of 45 patients in a non-endemic area (Group I).
  • (8) Since the inception of sexology as an academic discipline a century ago, the boundary between sexology, the science, and sexosophy, the philosophy of sex, has been poorly demarcated, especially with respect to the principles of sex-reform movements.
  • (9) Two or more years after the inception of therapy, only half of these patients were still using the insulin infusion pump.
  • (10) Since its inception, occupational therapy has recognized the importance of both preventive action and the promotion of wellness.
  • (11) Almost since its inception, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been using analytical techniques related to the concept of balancing benefits and costs.
  • (12) The findings demonstrate an increased use of family planning services in Saradidi following the inception of CBD.
  • (13) A Guardian Australia analysis of assessments made under the federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act since its inception in 2000 shows that 96.2% of projects – which include mining, ports and other infrastructure – have been given the green light, with conditions.
  • (14) Since its inception in July 1978, the Extramural Associates (EA) Program exemplifies the NIH effort to promote entry and participation of underrepresented minorities and women in biomedical and behavioral research.
  • (15) In the PSE cases, only clinical worsening was correctly classified by a high GHQ score at inception, age and poor coping abilities.
  • (16) This thesis deals with aetiology and mechanism of choleperitoneum inception during hemorrhagic pancreatitis.
  • (17) During the 8 years since inception of a home total parenteral nutrition program in 35 male patients 2 suffered priapism related temporally to the weekly intravenous infusion of 20 per cent fat emulsion.
  • (18) Nodular melanomas extend vertically from inception and often are not detected until they have penetrated to relatively deep levels.
  • (19) Future research in the aluminum industry needs to concentrate on longitudinal studies, preferably with an inception cohort for the investigation of potroom asthma.
  • (20) A survey was done in June 1983 in Saradidi, Kenya, one year after the inception of a community-based malaria control programme to determine if people were obtaining malaria treatment from volunteer village health helpers (VHH's) chosen by the community.

Initial


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.
  • (a.) Placed at the beginning; standing at the head, as of a list or series; as, the initial letters of a name.
  • (n.) The first letter of a word or a name.
  • (v. t.) To put an initial to; to mark with an initial of initials.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
  • (2) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
  • (3) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
  • (4) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
  • (5) Needle acupuncture did, however, increase the pain threshold compared with the initial value (alpha = 0.1%).
  • (6) Sixteen patients in whom schizophrenia was initially diagnosed and who were treated with fluphenazine enanthate or decanoate developed severe depression for a short period after the injection.
  • (7) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
  • (8) Errors in the initial direction of response were fewer in binocular viewing in comparison with monocular viewing.
  • (9) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
  • (10) An initial complex-soma inflection was observed on the rising phase of the action potential of some cells.
  • (11) In the past 6 years 26 patients underwent operation for recurrent duodenal ulcer after what was considered to be an "adequate" initial operation.
  • (12) Plain radiographs should be the initial screening modality for a suspected foreign body.
  • (13) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
  • (14) The degree of increase in Meth responsiveness elicited by the initial provocation is a major factor in determining the airway response to a subsequent HS challenge.
  • (15) At low concentrations of TFIC there is a more or less direct relationship between the amount of the factor and the number of initiated complexes formed.
  • (16) During the 1st h after induction of the sporulation process, the rate of protein synthesis increased to two times the initial value.
  • (17) Benefits increase with an individual's initial cholesterol level and decrease with the age at which an intervention is initiated.
  • (18) Charge data from the target hospital showed a statistically significant reduction in laboratory charges per patient in the quarter following program initiation (P = 0.02) and no evidence for change in a group of five comparison hospitals.
  • (19) The most pronounced changes occurred during the initial hours of nutrient and energy deprivation.
  • (20) Damage to this innervation is often initiated by childbirth, but appears to progress during a period of many years so that the functional disorder usually presents in middle life.

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