(a.) Not efficacious; not having power to produce the effect desired; inadequate; incompetent; inefficient; impotent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatment was ineffective and stopped in 12 cases (24.5%); the inefficacy was primary in 6 and tachyphylactic in the other 6.
(2) of these substances, or -- more accurately -- to a nitrogen inefficacy that they could provoke.
(3) Failure are due to overall inefficacy, dropouts from treatment and intolerance.
(4) Before 1966, they were mainly due to the choice of inefficacious operations.
(5) The case of a 55-year-old woman with a duodenal ulcer developing since 6 months is reported, in whom the surgical indication was early established on the basis of increasing of suffering and inefficacy of the medical treatment.
(6) The self-inefficacious stressed subjects were able to withstand increasing amounts of pain stimulation under saline conditions.
(7) Thirteen patients had to discontinue the treatment: 6 in the placebo group (inefficacy: 3 cases, anemia: 1 case, epigastric pain: 1 case, rash: 1 case) and 7 cases in the SI group (inefficacy: 2 cases, nauseous: 3 cases, abdominal pain: 1 case, moderate elevation of transaminases: 1 case).
(8) -in the second case, poor indications for selective intubation of the left main bronchus by left upper lobectomy initially foreseen, whereas pneumonectomy was necessary, hypoventilation, anoxia, cardiac inefficacy.
(9) Partial success with a good clinical result was obtained in 4 cases and there were 7 failures, 6 due to inefficacy of the drug, and 1 because of an extracardiac secondary effect.
(10) These results point to a basic inefficacy in the antiestrogen-receptor complex; although it is able to promote early tissue responses characteristic of an estrogen, these cannot be sufficiently maintained.
(11) We also have proved that dura mater tubes are inefficacious.
(12) The inefficacy of testosterone was attributed to the death of motoneurons before they could re-establish synaptic contact with targets, thereby rendering target-derived trophic substances stimulated by testosterone unable to rescue motoneurons in a timely manner.
(13) When hyponatremia develops, it worsens the already present secondary hyperaldosteronism and makes therapy with spironolactone inefficacious.
(14) Three out of the remaining nine patients stopped the therapy after 3 months because of inefficacy.
(15) During the study the drug had to be discontinued in 32 patients: because of inefficacy in 10, side effects in 11, both in nine, and in two because of unrelated events.
(16) There was inefficacy for left cardiac function of normal being.
(17) If the same tissues were infected via sensory nerves, following zosteriform spread of the virus the same treatments showed strongly decreased efficacy, or were inefficacious, when started before development of clinical signs in the infected tissues.
(18) It is suggested that determination of AI is used as a highly sensitive and operative test for routine monitoring of the patient's intraoperative condition and express diagnosis of inefficacy of anesthesia.
(19) Amiodarone may cause a broad variety of arrhythmias that are complicated by their extended duration and difficulty in distinguishing proarrhythmia from simple inefficacy.
(20) In patients who did not respond to DPA therapy, not only was the duration of the disease longer, but also previous therapy with other slow acting antirheumatic agents had been stopped because of inefficacy.
Inefficient
Definition:
(a.) Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures.
(a.) Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen; an inefficient administrator.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is extant a population of subjects who have average or better than average interpretive reading skills as measured by standardized tests but who read slowly and inefficiently.
(2) NADP+ bound at the C8 atom in the adenine moiety proved to be the most efficient ligand whereas that bound at the C3 atom of the ribose moiety was relatively inefficient.
(3) Neutral extracts are inefficient in both tests of promotion and inhibition of A I growth and contain an acid-activable component with an apparent molecular weight of 600 kd.
(4) However, inefficient initiation by the mutant enzyme leads to processive and stable ternary elongating complex.
(5) Intracellular phosphorylation of ddCyd in P388 cells was also very inefficient compared to that of 2'-deoxycytidine and uridine and not rate limited by its slow entry into the cells.
(6) Nearly $500m of US food aid is lost to waste, inefficiency and the profit margins of big American agribusiness, according to a report by aid groups urging reforms on how US food aid is sourced and delivered.
(7) 6 specific motives are pointed out which can be summarized in two motive classes: an inefficient expense-effect relation and low importance of physical activity.
(8) IgG coatings that resulted in inefficient Clq fixation promoted considerable functional impairment of monocytes within 1 hr.
(9) Scientific advances in control of the disease over the last three decades have produced effective chemotherapeutic agents, established the immunizing capacity of BCG vaccine, and demonstrated the superior value of bacteriologic diagnosis in symptomatic individuals over mass community x-ray surveys, which are both inefficient and costly.
(10) Existing ocular drug delivery systems are fairly primitive and inefficient, but the stage is set for the rational design of newer and significantly improved systems.
(11) At submillimolar levels of all four dNTPs, homologous recombination is inefficient, and a side reaction produces end-joined products.
(12) IgG, through its Fc fragment, directly stimulates particle ingestion, but is relatively inefficient at inducing particle binding.
(13) In the baby the turnover time is 5--6 sec on average but with a very wide spread; in the adult it is of the order of 30 sec, so that diffusion inefficiency of gas in the lung would be only 0.001 or 0.1%.
(14) Administrative inefficiency hinders even more the appropriate utilization of resources.
(15) High among the range of issues was the media dominance of the Globo group (whose journalists were chased away from demonstrations by an irate mob), inefficient use of public funds, forced relocations linked to Olympic real estate developments, the treatment of indigenous groups, dire inequality and excessive use of force by police in favela communities.
(16) After cerebral vasodilation variations in side-to-side asymmetry were shown to depend on the inefficiency of the collaterals and not on the degree of ICA obstruction or on the presence of cerebral infarction.
(17) EMR children generated more inefficient elaborations than did nonretarded children.
(18) To review procedures currently practiced in a Brazilian general hospital and to eliminate ineffective and inefficient practices.
(19) The main limitation of phototherapy is that it is inefficient, a limitation that seems to be imposed by transport processes in the body and the optics of skin rather than by the photochemical reactions on which it depends.
(20) More health complaints were placed by workers who were emotionally unstable, less relaxed, inefficient, rigid (e.g.