What's the difference between ineffectiveness and inoperancy?

Ineffectiveness


Definition:

  • (n.) Quality of being ineffective.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As prolongation of the action potential by TEA facilitates preferentially the hormone release evoked by low (ineffective) frequencies, it is suggested that a frequency-dependent broadening of action potentials which reportedly occurs on neurosecretory neurones may play an important role in the frequency-dependent facilitation of hormone release from the rat neurohypophysis.
  • (2) However, low dose heparin prophylasix is relatively ineffective in patients having hip surgery, and has not been evaluated in patients having other types of orthopaidic surgery.
  • (3) This mode of treatment remains appropriate for cases where antibiotics are ineffective and surgery impracticable.
  • (4) The excitatory effect of L-glutamate on PGCL sympathoexcitatory neurons was blocked by iontophoretic applications of kynurenic acid, whereas identical amounts of 8-OH kynurenic acid were ineffective.
  • (5) EGTA was ineffective in removing calmodulin from particulate preparations, but treatment with the tervalent metal ion La3+ resulted in a loss of up to 98% of calmodulin activity from these preparations.
  • (6) The use of UEBP-deficient female rat liver cytosol revealed that the afore-mentioned steroids are ineffective with respect to estrogen reception.
  • (7) Anti-histamine and anti-serotonin drugs, as well as substances capable of blocking synthesis of prostaglandins or activation of the kinin system, and also atropine, were ineffective in reducing the responses to TsTX or electrical stimuli.
  • (8) Treatment was ineffective and stopped in 12 cases (24.5%); the inefficacy was primary in 6 and tachyphylactic in the other 6.
  • (9) The delirium improved when the treatment was restored, whereas neuroleptics proved ineffective.
  • (10) The CI treatment induced almost full protection against these behavioral effects of saline stress but DS treatment was ineffective.
  • (11) In addition, it has excellent antibacterial activity against indole-positive Proteus strains against which conventional Cephalosporins are ineffective.
  • (12) Multimeric analysis of von Willebrand factor is necessary to diagnose von Willebrand's disease type II, in which DDAVP infusions should not be given since they are ineffective or may cause thrombocytopenia.
  • (13) It is concluded that under conditions in which other calcium release mechanisms operate well, InsP3 is relatively ineffective at releasing calcium from the SR in amounts sufficient to induce contraction.
  • (14) Hexa- and octasaccharides induced a slight increase in the number of acrosome reacted spermatozoa and disaccharides were ineffective.
  • (15) TE-031 was ineffective in 1 case of otitis media, but efficacious in 10 of 10 (100%) cases of upper respiratory infection, 15 of 18 (83.3%) cases of bronchitis and pneumonia, 5 of 6 (83.3%) cases of pertussis, 13 of 13 (100%) cases of mycoplasmal pneumonia, 4 of 4 (100%) cases of Chlamydia psittaci pneumonia, 16 of 16 (100%) cases of gastroenteritis (including 15 cases of Campylobacter gastroenteritis), and 1 (100%) case of impetigo.
  • (16) Preemployment screening methods have been ineffective in predicting those at risk, and in curbing the impact of back problems in industry.
  • (17) On siratro, CIAT899 induced nodules that were ineffective in acetylene reduction, whereas the EPS-deficient mutants induced effective nodules.
  • (18) Oligo- or polyribonucleotides are relatively ineffective initiators of polydeoxynucleotide polymerization.
  • (19) The H1-selective agonist, 2-(2-aminoethyl)thiazole was ineffective at doses 100 times greater than those of histamine.
  • (20) Anxiety disorders are no longer regarded as consequences of conflicts and ineffective defences or as concomitants of other psychiatric disorders but rather as disorders of their own.

Inoperancy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Formerly, many patients in this category were considered either inoperable or candidates for total or partial nephrectomy.
  • (2) Almost all were inoperable by conventional techniques.
  • (3) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.
  • (4) Survival in the inoperable group was short and showed no significant difference between treated and control patients.
  • (5) On 3 April he announced on his website that he had inoperable gall bladder cancer, giving him, at most, a year to live.
  • (6) The five-year survival rate for those patients with operable, resectable lesions was 33 percent, while for those with unilateral, inoperable, unresectable lesions, it was 10 percent.
  • (7) This choice was made on the basis of a clinical and angiographic estimate of the possible consequences of vessel occlusion, or dictated by sound inoperability of the patient.
  • (8) The condition of patients with transposition of the great arteries, intact ventricular septum and severe pulmonary vascular disease is inoperable with present techniques.
  • (9) The tumor was inoperable, and the patient was treated with chemotherapy.
  • (10) Seventy-three patients with regional, inoperable non-small-cell lung cancer received treatment with initial chemotherapy for two cycles (vinblastine-mitomycin followed in 3 weeks by vinblastine-cisplatin), with planned subsequent neutron irradiation to the primary site and concurrent, elective whole-brain irradiation using photons, followed by two more cycles of identical chemotherapy.
  • (11) The aim of the study was to assess vomit and pain control in terminal cancer patients with inoperable gastrointestinal obstruction, using a pharmacologic symptomatic treatment which prevents recourse to nasogastric tube placement and intravenous hydration, in hospital and home care settings.
  • (12) In a clinical randomized trial of 40 patients with inoperable lung carcinoma the success of radiotherapy alone (5000 rads) was compared with a combined modality with radiotherapy (5000 rads) and ICRF 159 (250 mg p.d.).
  • (13) Fifty-eight patients with inoperable adenocarcinoma of the pancreas were entered on the study, 47 were evaluable for response, and 57 were evaluable for toxicity.
  • (14) The second cyst was excised by cryoextraction 6 weeks after the initial surgery, but the eye developed an inoperable retinal detachment and phthisis bulbi.
  • (15) Survival and swallowing function were studied in a randomized trial of 97 patients with inoperable, localized esophageal carcinoma.
  • (16) An inoperable pituitary adenoma was a massive surrounding fibroblastic reaction was found at craniotomy.
  • (17) Endoscopic laser therapy is concluded to provide rapid, safe and excellent control of local symptoms in most patients with inoperable colorectal carcinoma, to be less useful when the tumour is large and circumferential and not effective in patients with incontinence.
  • (18) The third and fourth types characterized by intensive infrared radiation along all the anterior abdominal wall indicate mostly inoperable tumoral process.
  • (19) In some inoperable cases only biopsy of the lesion was possible.
  • (20) Chemotherapy with mitomycin C, ifosfamide and cisplatin (MIC) is reported to produce responses of 56% and 69% in inoperable non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).