What's the difference between predictable and unforeseeable?

Predictable


Definition:

  • (a.) That may be predicted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
  • (2) Pretraining consumption did not predict (among animals) post-training consumption.
  • (3) Moreover in MIT-1, the size of the novel polypeptide was not that predicted of the precursor (44.9 kDa) but was about 39 kDa, the same size as the authentic GS gamma polypeptide in CYT-4.
  • (4) From these data it is possible to predict theoretically the apparent temperature difference as seen by an infrared scanner or radiometer with a detector of which the spectral detectivity, D (lambda), is known.
  • (5) In practice, however, the necessary dosage is difficult to predict.
  • (6) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
  • (7) However, this predictive value disappeared when five baseline parameters found to predict the outcome (neopterin, beta 2-microglobulin, p24 antigen, anti-p18 antibody and immunoglobulin A) were adjusted.
  • (8) From the biochemical markers in follicular fluid, cyclic adenosine monophosphate has a distinct predictive value in regard to pregnancy in in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer cycles.
  • (9) (Predictive value positive refers to the proportion of all people identified who actually have the disease.)
  • (10) Serial observations of blood pressure after unilateral adrenalectomy for aldosterone-producing adenoma revealed an incidence of hypotension (systolic BP less than fifth percentile for age- and sex-matched normal population) of 27% at 2 years, more than 5 times that predicted.
  • (11) Thus, brain NE levels after training were not predictive of retention performance in amygdala-implanted or -stimulated animals.
  • (12) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
  • (13) Our prospective study has defined a number of important variables in patients with clinical evidence of mast cell proliferation that can predict both the presence of SMCD and the likelihood of fatal disease.
  • (14) Serum sialic acid concentration predicts both death from CHD and stroke in men and women independent of age.
  • (15) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
  • (16) Evidence reported here shows that, consistent with prediction, 10 carcinogens are all active in inducing tandem duplications.
  • (17) An experimental model was established in the ewe allowing one to predict with accuracy an antral follicle that coincidentally would either undergo ovulation (6-8 mm diameter) or atresia (3-4 mm diameter) following synchronization of luteal regression and the onset of the gonadotropin surge.
  • (18) Correlations and some clinically relevant comparisons suggested that the MMPI 168 predicted the standard MMPI with a high degree of accuracy.
  • (19) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
  • (20) The positive predictive accuracy of a biophysical profile score of 0, with mortality and morbidity used as end points, was 100%.

Unforeseeable


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being foreseen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Other, less frequent toxic effects, namely aplastic anaemia or fatal hepatitis, may be ascribed to unforeseeable idiosyncratic reactions.
  • (2) Further development in manual suturing with reference to security from failure and reduction of the expenditure of time is unforeseeable.
  • (3) "I'm absolutely clear it's virtually unforeseeable I would ever need to use water cannon.
  • (4) Any great advances in reproductive technology are very likely to be controlled and commandeered by the state with all kinds of unforeseeable consequences.
  • (5) While the former is usually unforeseeable, the latter is known and accepted by both physician and patient.Recent statistics estimate that about one quarter of pregnant women have had a radiographic experience during the pregnancy, either for obstetrical reasons or in the course of medical and dental examinations.
  • (6) The eradication of pertussis as a worldwide disease is unforeseeable for the present and immediate future.
  • (7) These factors and the evolution of the disorders are often unforeseeable, and render the patient's re-insertion problematical.
  • (8) This procedure gives good control of the herniated organs, allows easy intestinal resection and good management of unforeseeable situations.
  • (9) Yet it took unforeseeable dimensions and became one of the defining moments in recent Brazilian history.
  • (10) The subjects needed to see targets of unforeseeable velocity for no more than 300 ms in order to develop a residual velocity that was characteristic of the given target velocity.
  • (11) This multifactorials genesis makes very unforeseeable, in each case, the long term result of surgery in the form of hypothyroidism.
  • (12) The considerable variability of elimination rate observed among patients (extreme values of half-life and clearance differ 10-fold) mainly account for the unforeseeability of plasma levels obtainable with a given posology.
  • (13) Nevertheless, unforeseeable complications may occur which obscure the results.
  • (14) The unforeseeable course, which is always severe in these tumours, is characterised by the frequency of local relapse.
  • (15) The physician is not responsible for unforeseeable injuries to a patient's health, unless he had failed to inform her fully about the operation's possible consequences.
  • (16) Priority is given to the following research trends, the results of which may significantly affect the efficiency of health- and preventive care rendered to workers: development and control of new methods for early diagnosis of health lesions prior to clinical pathology and prior to the occurrence of work disablement, whether temporary or durable; development and enforcement of methods allowing to single out workers susceptible to the effects of particular environmental hazards with the aim of avoiding unforeseeable health effects of occupational exposure.
  • (17) The course of the disease is unforeseeable, certain large hematomas may become reabsorbed without sequelae.
  • (18) SIDS is in most cases unforeseeable and unavoidable.
  • (19) There is also no requirement under the act for them to destroy data once it has been accessed, meaning that these associations can be revealed long after they were initially accessed, and for unforeseeable purposes.
  • (20) Separately, a group of Italian MPs had urged the House of Lords to vote down the proposals, saying that mitochondrial donation “could have uncontrollable and unforeseeable consequences” and would inevitably “affect the human species as a whole”.

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