What's the difference between septical and skeptical?

Septical


Definition:

  • (a.) Having power to promote putrefaction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) report the complications registered, in particular: lead's displacing 6.2%, run away 0.7%, marked hyperthermya 0.0%, haemorrage 0.4%, wound dehiscence 0.3%, asectic necrosis by decubitus 5%, septic necrosis 0.3%, perforation of the heart 0.2%, pulmonary embolism 0.1%.
  • (2) In cases without septic complications the level returned to normal within seven days, while the sedimentation rate only became normal after three months.
  • (3) Inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) have been reported to increase mean arterial pressure in animal models of sepsis and recently have been given to patients in septic shock.
  • (4) The median duration of treatment for the clinical cures in osteomyelitis and septic arthritis were 29.5 days and 46 days respectively.
  • (5) Myocardial depression is a major but poorly understood component of septic shock.
  • (6) A prospective study of one hundred children with septic arthritis showed that the knee and hip were the joints most affected and that Staphylococcus aureus and Haemophilus influenzae Type B were the commonest bacteria grown.
  • (7) In conclusion, a zipper technique has been outlined that allows effective continuing drainage of the septic abdomen, permits early diagnosis of organ damage, is rapid and cost effective, minimizes ventilator dependency and gastrointestinal complications, is well tolerated by the patients, and has produced a modest 65 per cent survival rate in the first 34 critically ill patients in whom it was used.
  • (8) Effects of lidocaine on organ localization of neutrophils and bacteria and on hemodynamic and metabolic variables were determined during septic shock in dogs.
  • (9) On the basis of the analysis of 69 outbreaks of hospital infections registered in the USSR in 1986-1989, as well as additional observations made by the authors, a number of factors which determined the present state of the problems concerning this kind of morbidity in the USSR were established: an insufficient level (in cases of enteric infections) or a low level (in cases of purulent septic infections) of etiological diagnosis; poor efficiency of the epidemiological investigation of outbreaks; defects in the work on the prophylactic detection of potential sources of infection among medical staff, parturient women or mothers taking care of their infants.
  • (10) Minor trauma preceded shortly the development of the septic process.
  • (11) More than three separate blood cultures per septic episode is rarely necessary.
  • (12) The findings are in agreement with our former assumption that patients with septic abortion have a pronounced state of hypercoagulability.
  • (13) Cachexia and septic shock, syndromes associated with chronic and acute infection, respectively, are mediated by endogenous factors.
  • (14) To evaluate dopamine's effectiveness on regional perfusion and survival, neonatal pigs were subjected to fecal Escherichia coli peritonitis-induced septic shock and were randomly divided into equal groups.
  • (15) Septic shock constitutes a great threat to patients undergoing major abdominal surgery and also to trauma patients.
  • (16) A case is described of a 55 years old woman with septic thrombosis of the inferior caval vein, detected in time with the aid of computed tomography and cavography.
  • (17) These data support the idea that mesenteric oxygen consumption is flow-limited in this clinically relevant porcine model of septic shock.
  • (18) To reduce the risks posed by the hazard, the report recommends that a management plan be created to determine the level of soil contamination and for managing excavated soil, and to decommission disused septic tanks to prevent the spread of contamination.
  • (19) On the other hand, septic shock and appropriate antibiotic therapy were the major prognostic factors.
  • (20) No significant difference in septic complications was found between patients receiving 24 hours and 60 hours of preoperative treatment (Table III).

Skeptical


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a sceptic or skepticism; characterized by skepticism; hesitating to admit the certainly of doctrines or principles; doubting of everything.
  • (a.) Doubting or denying the truth of revelation, or the sacred Scriptures.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
  • (2) We intend to treat claims from the most powerful factions with skepticism, not reverence.
  • (3) But the question of what Wray will do after his tenure as FBI director may prompt some skepticism, the former agent said.
  • (4) Of these therapists, 78% reported that they had encountered intense skepticism from fellow professionals.
  • (5) Skeptics have disregarded that even lyophilized preparations of demonstrated activity will lose effect when stored above -80 degrees C. This explains some inconsistencies of results and difficulties in repetition.
  • (6) These stories play on half-truths, like the presence of far-right nationalists at Maidan, and reasonable doubt, like skepticism of western meddling.
  • (7) Louis Pasteur's vaccine against rabies, introduced 100 years ago, was greeted by the American medical community with a mixture of praise and skepticism.
  • (8) But first it has to get to the floor of the House of Representatives – where the leadership, which allowed a floor vote on Amash's amendment this summer, appears to take a more skeptical view.
  • (9) But the euro-skeptic outcome of the European elections posed risks to the single market and the economic recovery was "neither robust nor sufficiently strong".
  • (10) Outside of the potential abuses, there are other reasons to be skeptical of the cheerleading around the housing recovery.
  • (11) Some argue that the public accepts that modern medicine is effective, and others say that as a whole the public is skeptical about its value.
  • (12) PB Everything goes right for the Chargers You can forgive San Diego Chargers fans for being skeptical about their team's chances, and not just because their team only had a 1.6% chance of making the playoffs around Week 13 .
  • (13) Bradley argues that, while young people are generally good at spotting advertising, university prospectuses are different and can slip under the radar of skepticism.
  • (14) The problem of a hermeneutic psychiatry would be to steer between the Scylla of naive realism ignoring the major participation of the psychotherapist on the one hand, and the Charybdis of relativism, nihilism, and hopeless skepticism on the other.
  • (15) The evaluation and management of retinal ischemia from atherosclerotic carotid disease is in a state of flux reflected by the change from emphasizing surgical management in the '70s toward skepticism about the benefit of surgery in the '80s.
  • (16) Changes in nomenclature, while sorely needed, should be undertaken with appropriate skepticism and conservatism and should build upon the foundation provided by DSM-III.
  • (17) Thomas Jefferson, though generally skeptical of the medical treatments of his day, turned to laudanum in his later years to help ease his chronic diarrhea – an affliction that probably helped kill him .
  • (18) Many clinicians and radiotherapists are skeptical about the outcome of using radiosensitizers in patients.
  • (19) Surgeons commonly have reacted with skepticism to the introduction of catheter-based interventional approaches to treating coronary artery disease, prompted apparently, by a desire to protect what had been exclusively their turf.
  • (20) And theirs is not the only near-death story that has raised skeptical eyebrows – even among evangelicals.

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