What's the difference between indispensable and prerequisite?

Indispensable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely necessary or requisite.
  • (a.) Not admitting dispensation; not subject to release or exemption.
  • (a.) Unavoidable; inevitable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She was organised, good with people, very grown up and quickly proved herself to be indispensable.
  • (2) The lack of any easy clinical characteristic objectivisation often prevents easy recognition and complex diagnostic investigation is therefore indispensable.
  • (3) Duplex and color Doppler sonography have become indispensable for evaluating the major vessels of the abdomen.
  • (4) The data presented here indicate that renal clearance is not indispensable for eliminating etoposide.
  • (5) Therefore, observance of the generally accepted withdrawal time of 10 days is indispensable.
  • (6) Nurses are an indispensable part of these urban health teams and, if they are not already, should start now to become involved in urban policymaking and planning and consider how their national nurses' association can individually or collaboratively support healthy city projects and national healthy city networks.
  • (7) It is indispensable to establish a close cooperation between the public health authorities and the private physician, and we therefore wish to sincerely thank all colleagues and Public Health Officers for their collaboration.
  • (8) Treasury secretary Tim Geithner called her an "exceptional talent" whose broad experience would "provide invaluable leadership for this indispensable institution at a critical time for the global economy".
  • (9) These changes facilitate radium therapy which remains an indispensable arm for sterilizing primary lesions.
  • (10) "We will take part as requested … An agreement is indispensable for Europe, and not just Europe ," UniCredit chief executive Federico Ghizzoni told reporters in Rome, according to Reuters.
  • (11) A careful physical examination is indispensable, and masses should be evaluated with consideration given to mobility, location, consistency, contour, and site.
  • (12) Using this scoring system it is possible to establish comparable groups of patients - which seems indispensable for a critical examination of various therapeutic procedures.
  • (13) indispensable to attain normal reaching motor functions.
  • (14) This case shows that new or recurrent spinal cord symptoms may be due to a mechanical deformity of the cord rather than shunt malfunction, that restricting the length of the shunt catheter which is used to decompress PTSCCs is important, and that IOSS is an indispensable tool for visualizing the changes in spinal cord morphology during shunting procedures.
  • (15) In 46 patients the standard series was sufficient for diagnosis of allergic occupational contact dermatitis, but in thirty three cases it was indispensable to test them with additional subsances.
  • (16) That is a sign for increasing waste of reciprocal control of adrenal gland and liver, that is indispensable to maintenance of corticosteroid hemostasis.
  • (17) In order to establish whether the periaqueductal gray (PAG) is indispensible for peptide-induced excessive grooming, lesions were placed in the dorsal part of this structure.
  • (18) Polymodal pattern of regulation of this parameter is suggested which includes indispensable participation of both thermal and non-thermal factors of selection.
  • (19) Play is indispensable to human progress and good for individuals.
  • (20) Ultrasound is an indispensable tool for preliminary diagnosis ('filter function'), during treatment ('monitoring function') and in the followup examinations ('follow-up function') after shock wave lithotripsy of gallstones.

Prerequisite


Definition:

  • (a.) Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.
  • (n.) Something previously required, or necessary to an end or effect proposed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Confidence is the major prerequisite for a doctor to be able to help his seriously ill patient.
  • (2) The high participation percentage also shows that the prerequisite of screening, namely, a positive attitude on the part of the population, was as well fulfilled in the present project.
  • (3) For consistent identification of the normal pancreas, preliminary longitudinal scanning at, or near, the mid-line and subsequent oblique scanning in the long axis are necessary prerequisites in delineating the anatomic outline of the pancreas.
  • (4) This quantitative characterization of the properties of conduction and refractoriness of both the accessory pathway and ventriculoatrial conduction system and the relation between these characteristics and the accessory pathway location in ART patients provides additional insight into the prerequisites for the initiation and maintenance of this rhythm disturbance.
  • (5) She has imbued me with the confidence of encouraging other girls to dream alternative futures that do not rely on FGM as a prerequisite.
  • (6) The prerequisite for all champions is the refusal to cave in, so City's equaliser with only three minutes remaining was pleasing.
  • (7) To meet these prerequisites we have introduced some technical refinements: (1) computer-controlled rectilinear translations of the target in combination with different angular positions of the source and (2) computer-controlled rotations of the target around a vertical axis in combination with different angular positions of the source.
  • (8) Binding of the ilvY product at the O1 and O2 operator sites is co-operative and this ilvY protein-DNA complex in the presence of acetohydroxy acid isomeroreductase substrate is a prerequisite for RNA polymerase binding to the ilvC promoter as detected by DNase I protection experiments.
  • (9) These results point to HPV16 as one potential prerequisite for the first steps in the multistage development of human cervical cancer.
  • (10) Other experiments further implicated actin in the budding process during virus maturation, as there appeared to be a specific association of actin in vitro only with nucleocapsids that have terminated RNA synthesis, which is presumably a prerequisite to budding.
  • (11) We conclude that retained gastric peristaltic function is not a prerequisite for a good clinical outcome for swallowing and that despite vagotomy, the stomach continues to produce enough acid to maintain an acidic pH.
  • (12) The failure of agents which inhibit motility to inhibit capping of the normal lymphocytes suggests that active locomotion is not a direct prerequisite for capping.
  • (13) Compaction of the morula is a prerequisite for subsequent differentiation of the mouse embryo.
  • (14) Close cooperation of ophthalmological departments with vitreoretinal centres and early performance of urgent surgery are the basic prerequisites of better functional results of PPV in EHE.
  • (15) Oximeformation, for which keto acid production is a prerequisite, is discussed as part of the HA-tolerance.
  • (16) The capacity to sublimate and to foster sublimation in children is a prerequisite for normal motherhood.
  • (17) In addition, otoscopic accuracy is a prerequisite to optimal patient care.
  • (18) Such markers are prerequisites for therapeutic trials with potent drugs which are only justified for patients with fulminant hepatitis and patients with progression to chronicity.
  • (19) The article reviews practical aspects of tissue fixation and embedding protocols as well as methodologic aspects of the protein A-gold technique; careful control of these interrelated factors is the prerequisite for successful application.
  • (20) As a prerequisite for preparing bispecific antibody conjugates containing anti-tumor and anti-metal chelate binding sites that can be used for pretargeted immunoscintigraphy, monoclonal antibodies (Mabs) have been raised against an octahedral metal chelate synthetized from gallium (Ga) and the hexadentate ligand N,N'bis[2-hydroxy 5-(ethylene beta carboxy) benzyl] ethylenediamine N,N' diacetic acid (Ga-HBED-CC).