What's the difference between rectify and remedy?

Rectify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders.
  • (v. t.) To refine or purify by repeated distillation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit of wine.
  • (v. t.) To produce ( as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling low wines or ardent spirits (whisky, rum, etc.), flavoring substances, etc., being added.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A sample of 154 randomly selected, full-wave rectified and filtered electromyographic recordings was evaluated using a test-retest paradigm.
  • (2) At low concentrations, the current-voltage relations are inwardly rectifying, but they become more ohmic if a small amount of divalent cations is added externally.
  • (3) A voltage-sensitive K+ channel with characteristics of the delayed rectifier was studied in NG108-15 cells using the cell-attached patch-clamp technique.
  • (4) -57 mV) induced a large voltage-dependent inward current which has been identified as the K current through the anomalous rectifier (Ianomal.).
  • (5) Single atrial myocytes were enzymatically isolated from the bull-frog as previously described (Hume & Giles, 1981), and patch-clamp techniques were used in an attempt to identify and separate two inwardly rectifying K+ channels in this tissue.
  • (6) Neither a steady-state component (Is-s) nor a slowly activated component (Irise) of inward rectifier currents were observed in fibres of P0 and P4 mice.
  • (7) Opioid activation of the inward rectifying conductance resulted in small outward potassium currents at resting membrane potentials and increased inward currents at hyperpolarized potentials.
  • (8) The dependence of the current activation and inactivation on the membrane potential was consistent with that of a delayed K+ rectifier.
  • (9) If such errors are to be rectified systematically to provide a sustainable improvement in field placement accuracy over a course of treatment, the origins of the errors require unambiguous identification.
  • (10) Therapy depends upon determining the precise etiology for the fall and rectifying contributing factors.
  • (11) A channel exhibiting fast, voltage-dependent transitions between different conductance states may behave as an intrinsic rectifier.
  • (12) These results showed that some of the organic compounds released by cells during regulatory volume decrease could diffuse through this outwardly rectifying anionic channel.
  • (13) Treatment with recombinant human TNF-alpha (rhTNF) for 24 to 72 hr produces (i) process retraction in some but not all OLGs, (ii) a reduction in the resting membrane potential with no significant change in membrane capacitance or input resistance over control cells and (iii) a decrease in the expression of both the inwardly rectifying and outward K+ current.
  • (14) "And charging citizens to hold power to account is not the way to rectify an existing imbalance or promote a more meaningful democracy."
  • (15) Edi was recorded by an esophageal electrode, rectified, and then integrated, and peak values during inspiration were measured.
  • (16) Nothing I can say will rectify that,” said Reid, who worked for the Metropolitan police service’s specialist search unit for 26 years, before retiring in 2011.
  • (17) To rectify the situation, we adapted the anchored polymerase chain reaction to clone and analyze rapidly the expressed V genes for three anti-virus IgG antibodies.
  • (18) Retailers work very quickly to rectify these mistakes whenever they are found."
  • (19) The inward rectifier in lens has the necessary properties to be involved in setting resting voltage.
  • (20) The effects of intracellular pH on an inwardly rectifying K+ channel ("Kin channel") in opossum kidney (OK) cells were examined using the patch-clamp technique.

Remedy


Definition:

  • (n.) That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; -- with for; as, a remedy for the gout.
  • (n.) That which corrects or counteracts an evil of any kind; a corrective; a counteractive; reparation; cure; -- followed by for or against, formerly by to.
  • (n.) The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain redress for a wrong.
  • (n.) To apply a remedy to; to relieve; to cure; to heal; to repair; to redress; to correct; to counteract.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This questionnaire asked about the patients' own diagnosis of symptoms, previous remedies and their source.
  • (2) This case study described the success of a technique labeled Multiple Oral Rereading (MOR) in the remediation of a case of acquired alexia in an adult male.
  • (3) The Conservatives are offering the gay community no new measures to remedy the remaining vestiges of homophobia and transphobia .
  • (4) A recent UN study ranked Brazil 116th out of 143 countries in terms of the proportion of women in the national legislature and efforts to remedy this with a quota system – such as those adopted by neighbouring Argentina and Bolivia – have made little headway, despite Suplicy's heavy campaigning.
  • (5) These effects are due to residual silanols on the surface of the column material and may be remedied by adding suitable amines or quaternary ammonium ions to the eluent as anti-tailing agents.
  • (6) The austerity programmes administered by western governments in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis were, of course, intended as a remedy, a tough but necessary course of treatment to relieve the symptoms of debts and deficits and to cure recession.
  • (7) Future research should emphasize the assessment of remedial interventions.
  • (8) While interest in herbal therapy is clearly increasing in Western countries, there are few available data about hepatotoxicity of herbal remedies.
  • (9) The rich ethnopharmacological descriptions in the ancient books of herbal remedy and those scattered in the folklore medicine contribute the possibility of this approach.
  • (10) Many of the factors that make jobs difficult can be remedied without extensive cost to the employer.
  • (11) Early diagnosis, particularly at the time of operation, and remedial treatment reduce mortality.
  • (12) Organic and ionic solutes proved to be equally effective in inducing the osmotic remedial response.
  • (13) Poor crossing undermined Liverpool in the first leg, Klopp had claimed, but the flaw was remedied quickly in the return.
  • (14) Subsequent to baseline, participants used written checklists that identified potential in-home hazards but did not prompt behaviors necessary for hazard remediation.
  • (15) Continued escalation of claims frequency, however, and average paid-claim costs mean that other remedies will have to be sought if the professional liability problem is to be solved.
  • (16) Among the 630 mothers studied, it was observed that a majority of mothers (92%) would take remedial action for diarrhoea when the stool frequency was 3 or more per 12-hour period.
  • (17) Forty mutants are osmotic remedial; 17 of these, and no others, are also temperature-sensitive.
  • (18) The experiments have implications for the nonaversive remediation of self-injury in individuals who are restrained, as well as for the development and maintenance of self-injury in natural settings.
  • (19) A remedial effect other than osmotic protection of these effectors and an adaptive regulatory mechanism for PE formation are suggested.
  • (20) Those of most importance involve interaction with guanethidine-type agents and tricyclic antidepressants, amphetamine-type anorexiants or phenolpropanolamine-type common cold remedies; combined use of potassium retaining diuretics with potassium supplements; and incautious use of diuretics with cardiac glycosides.