What's the difference between malefic and maleic?

Malefic


Definition:

  • (a.) Doing mischief; causing harm or evil; nefarious; hurtful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In contrast, chronic pain is a malefic force that taxes the physical, emotional, and economic resources of the patient, his famiily, and society.
  • (2) The texts specified the foundations of these dispositions, not in a malefic view of epilepsy inherited from Morbus Sacer of Antiquity, but in decency and on account of risk incured by Eucharist in case of fit.
  • (3) Photograph: EPA For Stone, the US has, ever since those two fateful days in August 1945, been in the malefic grip of the military and hegemonic delusions.

Maleic


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the ethylene series, metameric with fumaric acid and obtained by heating malic acid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A sensitive potentiometric monitoring method was developed that permits the continuous measurement of the disolution profiles of methyl vinyl ether-maleic anhydride-acid copolymers and salt derivatives.
  • (2) Maleic acid dimethylester (MAD) was investigated in acute and subacute dermal toxicity studies, for sensitization potential, and for in vivo and in vitro genotoxicity.
  • (3) Maleic acid, malonic acid, oxalic acid, and L-(+)-tartaric acid, as well as other Krebs cycle acids such as citric and isocitric acids, were not accepted by the malate transport system.
  • (4) Maleic acid and gulanolactone, compounds structurally related to ascorbic acid but not containing the ene-diol group, had no such effect.
  • (5) Antibodies against cortisol-21-hemisuccinate conjugated to bovine serum albumin was raised in rabbits and conjugated with poly-maleic acid anhydride.
  • (6) The drugs applied were: ethanol, etacryn acid (per os), ethanol, maleic acid, physiological NaCl--solution (by infusion).
  • (7) We previously synthesized a SOD derivative (SM-SOD) by linking poly(styrene co-maleic acid butyl ester) (SM) to the enzyme (Ogino, T., Inoue, M., Ando, Y., Awai, M., Maeda, H. and Morino Y.
  • (8) All additives tested (ethyl alcohol, glycerine, chloral hydrate, ethylene and propylene glycol, and citric, malonic and maleic acids) in varying degrees limited the conversion of hematein to insoluble compounds.
  • (9) Maleic anhydride (MA)-based alternating copolymers, in particular, copolymers of divinyl ether with MA containing five-member oxygen cycles in the chain, as well as furan copolymers with MA, were shown to be promising interferon inducers.
  • (10) Maleic acid, a nonspecific antioxidant, did not interfere with the insects' ability to remove bacterial cells from hemolymph.
  • (11) The effects of environmental pH on the binding and cytotoxicity of the antitumor proteins neocarzinostatin (NCS) and SMANCS [copoly(styrene-maleic acid)-conjugated NCS] to cultured cells were studied by using their fluorescent-labeled derivatives (F-drugs).
  • (12) Additional treatment with the chemically defined biological response modifier maleic anhydride divinyl ether copolymer (MVE-2) was able to ameliorate the myelosuppressive effects of CY and to restore normal bone marrow cellularity.
  • (13) The treatments were administered alone or in the presence of maleic hydrazide and X-rays.
  • (14) The results of studies on the effect of a new synthetic antigens: interpolymer of styrene and maleic acid (PSM) on the immunological response in rats to sheep red blood cells, and vice versa are presented.
  • (15) Pyrans are co-polymers of divinyl ether and maleic anhydride.
  • (16) A new male method of contraception by injecting a polymer, styrene-maleic anhydride (SMA), into the lumen of the vas deferens has been studied on rhesus monkeys.
  • (17) Monomeric native bovine serum albumin (BSA) interacted much less avidly than A-Au and BSA that was chemically modified by formaldehyde (Fm-BSA) or maleic anhydride (Mal-BSA).
  • (18) The genetic toxicity of 12 chemicals with sufficient data is discussed in detail: benzoin, caffeine caprolactam, ethanol, halothane, hycanthone methanesulfonate, malathion, maleic hydrazide, methotrexate, 1-naphthylamine, 4-nitro-o-phenylenediamine, and p-phenylenediamine.
  • (19) Peritoneal macrophages (PM theta) from mice treated intraperitoneally with the unique polyanionic compounds cyclohexyl-1,3-dioxepin maleic anhydride copolymer (CDA-MA) and 4-methyl-2-pentenoyl maleic anhydride copolymer (MP-MA) had tumoricidal activity against Lewis lung tumor cells.
  • (20) In maleic acid-treated rats the site and extent of tubular necrosis and the nature of urinary loss of solutes were studied.

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