What's the difference between infirmative and void?
Infirmative
Definition:
(a.) Weakening; annulling, or tending to make void.
Example Sentences:
(1) The thrust of health care "solutions" in the press and in Congress focus on the infirm.
(2) Those allocated a diagnosis of dementia were most impaired and confused, and those living in specialist homes for the mentally infirm were more impaired than other residents.
(3) Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe I is for Italy He lived for many years in a mountain-top retreat in Ravello on the Amalfi coast until he became too infirm to cope with the hills.
(4) Anyone who is pregnant, breastfeeding or infirm should talk to a GP before taking the herb.
(5) The cell bodies of the AVCN did not seem altered infirming a rapid, direct or indirect, neurotoxic effect of the drug.
(6) This paper describes one of the first attempts at an economic evaluation of a community care initiative for elderly mentally infirm people and their carers.
(7) It appears to become more severe with advanced age and other infirmities, such as immobility.
(8) It was one of at least half a dozen such unionist experiments, with a variety of partners, which foundered on the rocks of the would-be partners' infirmity of purpose, fear, suspicion and disdain of this bizarre, arrogant, impetuous upstart.
(9) While the courts welcome Russian oligarchs whose disputes have nothing to do with this country, they close their doors to the cheated, the battered and the infirm from the native poor.
(10) Swing your gaze from the aged and infirm to your fit and healthy peers here and abroad embracing fascism and poor-bashing.
(11) Other factors included pre-existing locomotor disorder or mental infirmity, unmanageable incontinence of urine after catheterisation, and institutional disorientation.
(12) The increasing infirmity of the aged often associated with tiredness, dyspnea and dizziness even without treatment requires careful instruction of the patient about effects and side effects of the prescribed medication.
(13) 11.01am BST Lord Norman Tebbit , the Tory former cabinet minister, says he worries such a bill would bring great pressure on the old, infirm or disabled to consider ending their lives so as to not be a financial burden on others.
(14) If "pain" in the broad sense of the term lends itself to objective evaluation with difficulty, it is not the same with respect to infirmity.
(15) The results of one such arrangement where a geriatrician was involved in the weekly review of the elderly mentally infirm patients are described.
(16) The dual rating system eliminates the problem of declining knee scores associated with patient infirmity.
(17) Neurotic applicants for an infirmity-pension belong to the group of problem patients for attending general practitioners and specialists alike.
(18) Please do not let us remember only the sick and infirm.
(19) Yet every local authority in the land allows men like these as well as our sick, elderly and infirm to be left to the tender mercies of profiteers and cowboys.
(20) Now staff and volunteers hunched over the infirm, dispensing sips of water and fanning them with bits of cardboard.
Void
Definition:
(a.) Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
(a.) Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and the like.
(a.) Being without; destitute; free; wanting; devoid; as, void of learning, or of common use.
(a.) Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
(a.) Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
(a.) Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2.
(n.) An empty space; a vacuum.
(a.) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table.
(a.) To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge; as, to void excrements.
(a.) To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to vacate; to annul; to nullify.
(v. i.) To be emitted or evacuated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stimulation with these electrodes were effective for inducing voiding with little residual volume after the recovery of bladder reflexes, 3 weeks after experimental spinal cord injury in the dog.
(2) The Lex antigen was present in the void volume fraction of the majority (85%) of sera from adenocarcinoma patients.
(3) To facilitate detoxification, the centrifuge is employed to provide plasma rich in toxins, but void of potentially interfering blood components such as platelets and whole blood cells.
(4) The acquisition of dryness is accelerated by eradication of bacteriuria and a sympathetic and energetic management regime, which should place responsibility on the child and result in the child voiding more frequently and completely.
(5) Excretory urogram revealed bilateral hydronephrosis and voiding cystogram revealed VUR on left ureter.
(6) Primary invasive adenocarcinoma of the bladder was diagnosed in a fifty-two-year-old male with a two-month history of irritative voiding symptoms.
(7) Residual urine volume and urine voiding efficiency are also calculated.
(8) During unstable detrusor contractions, which even in these healthy women are observed during bladder filling and also during inhibited voidings through the urethra, the contraction is weaker.
(9) Some of this LPS-associated polysaccharide eluted as the void volume of a G-100 column but differed from PS by its lack of galactose and arabinose.
(10) Cytological examination of voided urine is an established investigation in urological practice.
(11) At 12 months TURP had also improved micturition time and voided volume, which TUI had not.
(12) Chlamydia trachomatis was detected from first-voided urine sediments of 97 male patients with urethritis by polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
(13) SEM of the resulting surface showed rounded fragments of enamel rods, enamel melting, cracks, and smooth-edged voids.
(14) By 16 weeks, fibrocartilage had filled the void in the curetted disc spaces.
(15) Both the void volume protein peak and the procoagulant activity peak from the 0.25 M calcium chloride-agarose gel column support ristocetin-induced platelet aggregation.
(16) It is concluded that imaging of the urinary tract is not necessary for pure nightwetters, while ultrasonography or uroflowmetry and more sophisticated radiological or urological methods should be focused on those children with daytime wetting and clinical symptoms of voiding disturbances.
(17) Cation exchange chromatography on carboxymethylcellulose-Sephadex with a starting buffer of pH 5 containing 2 mM CHAPS plus 20 mM beta-OG, followed by a pH 8 buffer, showed a very small OD peak at the void volume (P) and a second peak with about 95% of the protein (E).
(18) The one peak which was common to both sera appeared with the void volume and was identified as albumin.
(19) The first peak eluted at the void volume containing lipoproteins, alpha 2- and beta 2-macroglobulins, and the second peak at the fraction of albumin.
(20) Oxendolone + bunazosin tended to show a better clinical efficacy than the other of these regimens, when the improvement was defined as that with more than one degree in the severity of retarded voiding, prolonged voiding, urinary stream condition, abdominal pressure on voiding and residual urine sensation.