What's the difference between therefore and wherefore?

Therefore


Definition:

  • (adv.) For that or this reason, referring to something previously stated; for that.
  • (adv.) Consequently; by consequence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Therefore, these findings may extend the use of platelets as neuronal models.
  • (2) Therefore, it is suggested that PE patients without endogenous erythroid colonies may follow almost the same clinical course as SP patients.
  • (3) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
  • (4) Elements in the skin therefore seemed to enhance nerve regeneration and function.
  • (5) IT can, therefore, be excluded almost with certainty that the meat would contain such large amounts of hormone residues.
  • (6) The present study was therefore carried out to specify further which type of adrenoceptor is involved in lithium-induced hyperglycaemia and inhibition of insulin secretion.
  • (7) These authors, therefore, conclude that this modified surgical approach is a viable alternative to the previously described procedures for resistant metatarsus adductus.
  • (8) Therefore, we have developed a powerful new microcomputer-based system which permits detailed investigations and evaluation of 3-D and 4-D (dynamic 3-D) biomedical images.
  • (9) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
  • (10) Therefore, neither of these two regions of the Tat protein appear to be discrete activation domains.
  • (11) We therefore enumerated the percentage of Leu2a+ cells as well as the occurrence of HLA-DR activation markers within this population.
  • (12) Alleles in this region can be exchanged between X and Y chromosomes and are therefore inherited as if autosomal.
  • (13) Therefore, we undertook a follow-up study on the survivors of 57 infants who received IUT's between 1966 and 1975.
  • (14) The blastocyst antiluteolytic protein therefore closely resembles the interferon-alpha family of antiviral proteins.
  • (15) Therefore, the measurement of the alpha-antitrypsin content plays the crucial part in differential diagnosis of primary (hereditary determined) and secondary (obstructive) emphysema.
  • (16) Measuring this value therefore is a very promising procedure.
  • (17) Current recommendations regarding contraception in patients with diabetes are not appropriate for the adolescent population and therefore tend to support this phenomenon rather than relieve it.
  • (18) It is therefore necessary, to look at typical clinical manifestations, i.e.
  • (19) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
  • (20) In this way they offer the doctor the chance of preventing genetic handicaps that cannot be obtained by natural reproduction, and that therefore should be used.

Wherefore


Definition:

  • (adv. & conj.) For which reason; so; -- used relatively.
  • (adv. & conj.) For what reason; why; -- used interrogatively.
  • (n.) the reason why.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Treatment proved effective wherefore the authors hope that further studies will be carried out in order to increase our knowledge of the modulation and regulation of the immune response, a primary element in the management of these disorders which is at present only experimental.
  • (2) All the whys and wherefores are discussed and some conclusions reached.
  • (3) It argues that too little attention has been paid to the how and why, the what and the wherefore of evaluation.
  • (4) The one that never did me the courtesy of explaining the whys and wherefores.
  • (5) Coral graveyard: the aftermath of bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef – in pictures Read more I am struggling to get my head around the whys and wherefores of the complacency and lack of logical reasoning on this issue.
  • (6) Phenotypic characteristics that could differentiate between the two main DNA relatedness groups of F. meningosepticum were not discovered, wherefore a subdivision of the present species into two species cannot be recommended.
  • (7) 9 patients did not show a clear restriction of the clearance, wherefore in these cases a control examination was not necessary.
  • (8) People complain that there are no laughs in the Bible (actually Sarah, the wife of Abraham, fails to conceal her amusement when she's told that she's about to conceive, at the age of 90: "Therefore Sarah laughed within herself… And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sara laugh…"), but let the rabbis loose on it, and it's practically standup material.
  • (9) Whatever the whys and wherefores, the bottom line is that he was dropped for the glamour tie against Bayern and it would have hurt, particularly as his replacement was the untested 21-year-old Yaya Sanogo.
  • (10) With the help of the isotope renography could be proved that the treatment with alpha-methyldopa causes no reduction of the blood supply of the kidneys, wherefore alpha-methyldopa can be successfully applied in patients with hypertension and renal failure.
  • (11) Anderson said recently that the whys and wherefores of the Golden Fang aren’t important; it’s a metaphor for the Man, the system, the evil empire, whatever anti-fun military-industrial complex rules the day.
  • (12) Till now there is no coherent idea about their pathogenesis, wherefore in the individual case wide differences exist in the diagnosis, treatment and in the expert opinion.
  • (13) The clinical estimation of the "Debris Layer" forming in the course of expanding the root channel is not entirely uniform in the literature wherefore also the question of its removal is the subject of dispute.