What's the difference between incontrollable and uncontrollable?

Incontrollable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not controllable; uncontrollable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The treatment ought to be as conservative as possible with replacement of the blood, and surgical intervention should be performed only in the few patients with incontrollable bleeding.
  • (2) Finally an incontrolled administration of cytostatic agents is warned of with reference to mutagenic, teratogenic and oncogenic zequelae.
  • (3) "A Front National delegation will cause a really big problem because they are absent, to the point of being incontrollable," predicts Olivier Costa, director of political studies at the College of Europe in Bruges.
  • (4) Isoproternol, which acts on other receptors than does TSH, cause a similar cAMP increase incontrols and at 2 h and 8 h after TSH, but stimulated iodination only in controls and at 8 h after TSH; this supported the conclusion that the lack of iodination response to a second TSH dose at 2 h was not due to impairment of the adenylate cyclase-cAMP system.
  • (5) Unilateral or bilateral embolisation of the internal iliac artery was effected in nine patients with incontrollable bleeding due to bladder tumour or invasion of a tumour into the bladder, or as a result of massive alterations of the urinary bladder caused by radiation exposure.
  • (6) During the first stage (that of diffuse irregular hyperplasia) and the second stage (that of focal proliferation) the rhythms of of the changes in the mitotic activity of test animals as incontrols had a distinct monophasic character with the maximum number of mitoses at the early morning hours and the minimum at the evening-night hours.
  • (7) Concurrently the specific activity of AChE increased markedly incontrols and 6-AN-treated cultures.

Uncontrollable


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being controlled; ungovernable; irresistible; as, an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable events.
  • (a.) Indisputable; irrefragable; as, an uncontrollable maxim; an uncontrollable title.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A case of mixed congenital abnormalities in a fetus demonstrated ultrasonographically during the second trimester of pregnancy in an uncontrolled insulin-dependent diabetic mother is presented.
  • (2) In 27 patients with uncontrollable gastroesophageal reflux, a modified Nissen fundoplication was performed.
  • (3) Surgical exploration is reserved for those cases with clinical or radiologic evidence of uncontrollable hemorrhage, bowel perforation, or mesenteric infarction.
  • (4) His balancing pole swayed uncontrollably, nearly tapping the sides of his feet.
  • (5) In the southern state of Karnataka, corruption is blamed for uncontrolled mining in vast areas of protected forest.
  • (6) Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus can aggravate the hyperlipidaemia associated with this disorder, presumably by increasing triglyceride synthesis and reducing very low density lipoprotein catabolism by lipoprotein lipase.
  • (7) Balance and cognition were assessed in two patients with uncontrolled complex partial seizures.
  • (8) These studies were uncontrolled and the study populations were small.
  • (9) In the affective realm, the Rorschach scores reflected the predicted decrease in uncontrolled expression of affect, increase in controlled expression of affect, and increase in inwardness.
  • (10) With chemical matrixectomy, regulation of the level of tissue destruction is uncontrolled and often results in bone injury.
  • (11) Patients had troublesome symptoms uncontrolled by high doses of inhaled corticosteroids (mean 1450 micrograms).
  • (12) Many clinical trials (controlled and uncontrolled) have demonstrated the efficacy of NSAIDs such as the fenamates, indole-acetic acid derivatives, and arylpropionic acid derivatives in relieving primary dysmenorrhea as well as IUD-induced dysmenorrhea that is also due to elevated prostaglandin levels.
  • (13) There was too much hurt and uncontrolled anger when she was in the superior position with the kind of man who could not meet her dependency needs.
  • (14) Distant metastases were usually associated with uncontrolled disease at the primary site.
  • (15) These cases illustrate that partial gastrectomy fails to protect patients from developing iron overload, particularly if given uncontrolled iron therapy.
  • (16) By uncontrolled application without indication of a photoactive drug methoxypsoralen (Meladinine) which is sold only on prescription a 20-year-old man sustained a large burn injury of 71% of body surface.
  • (17) "Enuresis risoria" or "giggle incontinence" is a particular condition characterized by a sudden, involuntary, uncontrollable and complete emptying of the bladder during giggling or hearty laughter.
  • (18) Both phenomena are interrelated: disintegration of systems releases its component functional structures from inhibition, and the uncontrolled activity of the disinhibited (hyperactive) functional structures leads further disintegration.
  • (19) (1) The use of compounds with a prolonged effect completely does away with the uncontrolled intake of drugs, which leads to a considerable reduction in the number of relapses and exacerbations.
  • (20) Zinc and copper are accumulated in the kidney of rats with uncontrolled, insulin dependent diabetes mellitus.

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