What's the difference between measurable and unmeasurable?

Measurable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation.
  • (a.) Moderate; temperate; not excessive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
  • (2) Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, volumes, and temperatures of expired gas were measured from the tracheal and esophageal tubes.
  • (3) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
  • (4) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
  • (5) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
  • (6) However, when first trimester specimens were analyzed, the direct-product measurements were significantly larger than the corresponding 3H2O assay results.
  • (7) Activity of Na,K-ATPase activity was measured as a functional marker for synaptosomal membranes.
  • (8) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
  • (9) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
  • (10) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
  • (11) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
  • (12) Heart rate (HR), pulmonary ventilation (V), oxygen consumption (VO2), carbon dioxide production (VCO2), and respiratory quotient (RQ) were measured.
  • (13) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
  • (14) Measurement of the intraspinal monoamine level revealed a decrease in the intraspinal norepinephrine level in the treated animals.
  • (15) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
  • (16) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
  • (17) Although measurements are easily obtained with a tape measure, the validity of these measurements is not known.
  • (18) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
  • (19) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).
  • (20) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.

Unmeasurable


Definition:

  • (a.) Immeasurable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The possibility that selective bias or unmeasured environmental differences might explain the difference in BP between the two groups is discussed.
  • (2) In 31 patients in whom specific IgE fell to low (less than 6% counts bound) or unmeasurable levels, immunotherapy was discontinued, and sting challenge was carried out 1 to 3 years later.
  • (3) The doses used did not reduce plasma angiotensin II maximally despite reduction of plasma renin activity to unmeasurable levels.
  • (4) To establish uniform levels of endogenous calcitriol and its precursors, all rabbits had been depleted of vitamin D. The depletion was demonstrated by their serum calcidiol and calcitriol levels declining to unmeasurable levels, following the regimen of a vitamin D-free diet.
  • (5) The great variability in peripheral vision changes for the groups with high life stress suggests that, for certain subjects, some unmeasured variable may be buffering the adverse impact of high life-event stress.
  • (6) Subsequent variance components analysis suggested that unmeasured polygenic loci and unmeasured shared environmental factors together account for at least an additional 36.7% of the variability in normalized fasting plasma glucose, with genes alone accounting for at least 27.3%.
  • (7) In contrast, endothelial water diffusional permeability is so high as to be unmeasurable.
  • (8) GSSG was present in cultured rat hepatocytes in only small amounts and becomes unmeasurable after four days of culture.
  • (9) In contrast, six closely related non-nitrile ligands containing identical peptide side chains but having C-terminal groups incapable of binding covalently to papain had unmeasureably high dissociation constants.
  • (10) The apparently significant reduction in symptoms experienced by some subjects in the absence of audiometric change suggests the operation of unmeasured factors in their response to treatment.
  • (11) Three patients had unmeasurable LH levels, while two had a normal number of low amplitude pulses.
  • (12) A small (unmeasured) drop of blood, such as is obtained from a finger puncture, is placed on disposable cover slip and inserted in the sample holder of the instrument.
  • (13) Because it has long been recognized that the growth of most untreated tumors is well described by Gompertzian or exponential growth curves but that the growth of treated tumors has never been well characterized mathematically, we developed and applied an equation that, while not dependent on restrictive assumptions or unmeasurable variables, was nevertheless capable of describing perturbed as well as unperturbed growth.
  • (14) The blood pressure was unmeasurable and the peripheral pulse could not be felt.
  • (15) The pool activity of G1 cells was unmeasurable but rose to maximum values at the border of the G1-S phase.
  • (16) Unstimulated saliva samples were collected from 20 patients; however, saliva volumes from 10 pediatric patients were inadequate to permit analysis by FPIA, and 1 other had unmeasurable concentrations by both methods.
  • (17) The operative blood loss during the endoscopic dissection stage was unmeasurable in four patients and amounted to 300 ml in one.
  • (18) Whether this might occur depends in part on the nature of the accompanying anion (if the etiology of the hypermagnesemia is an exogenous load of magnesium), as well as on the presence of concomitant changes in endogenous unmeasured anions.
  • (19) In separate analyses of cholesterol and betalipoprotein levels, a complete model that includes the effects of the six apo E genotypes, unmeasured polygenes, and individual specific environmental effects fits these data significantly better than a reduced model that does not include the effects of the apo E polymorphism or a reduced model that does not include the effects of polygenes.
  • (20) A one-step cassette contains all components necessary to run the test and includes blood filtration and automatic sample measurement, so that unmeasured finger-stick whole-blood specimens can be analyzed by the non-technically trained user.

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