(a.) Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ed Miliband should be out and proud about his abstruse interests, his Masters in economics, his political obsession, his prioritising of the mental over the physical.
(2) Britain's sodden fields mean the debate about climate change is now no longer confined to some abstruse problem affecting glaciers in far-off countries.
(3) As if to underline how far leftfield Radiohead have subsequently shifted, it's followed by the instrumental Feral, which in its live incarnation – scattered rhythms overlaid with echoing vocal loops and waves of electronic noise – is arguably the most abstruse and uncommercial piece of music you're ever likely to hear booming around an arena venue.
(4) At its best, British public service broadcasting wants to share the best with everyone, it takes topics or themes which may seem abstruse or unapproachable – the science of the solar system, what you can learn about civilisation through physical artefacts – and then brings them to life with such conviction and creativity that they reach deep across a society.
(5) Thus the abstruse nomenclature in common use is avoided.
(6) Innovative dance music is still being made, but it exists almost entirely out of the realm of the charts: for all its ground-breaking brilliance, there have been few takers among the mainstream record-buyers for the new, deliberately abstruse, genre of "grime".
(7) I think the most abstruse one we've put in here is ferkidoodle."
(8) The lawyer among them, the ever resourceful Markus C Kerber, probably came up with the abstruse idea of supporting their case by quoting the right to resistance.
(9) Filesharing tools have gone from the primitive, easily monitored and abstruse (IRC or the early Napster) to a very easy, attack-resistant architecture that was built in response to entertainment industry attacks.
(10) Or perhaps it's just a load of bumwash with wilfully abstruse bells on.
(11) In a less abstruse way, Twitter has already shown itself to be a useful conduit for circumventing legal or governmental censorship.
(12) The origins of this type of aberrant maternal behavior remain abstruse, as do the long-term psychological effects on the child victims.
(13) Shenouda's hundred books and countless sermons untangled abstruse dogma in a straightforward way.
(14) If it sounds a little abstruse, by the way, to try to solve the feminist framing of the ancient Greeks, the idea of a sex strike has reappeared more recently, in fiction if not in fact.
(15) For the lay person attempting to referee the row, and having to interpret such abstruse concepts as the Gini coefficient and, as Gaffney neatly summarises, whether "the r > g inequality is amplifying the reconcentration trend", illumination is hard to discern.
(16) For children about to undergo surgery and for their families, anxiety caused by the abstruse procedure and the child's separation can provoke a crisis.
(17) Whereas the effects of Fadenoperation on adduction incomitance are perfectly clear, those on the deviation in primary position still remain very abstruse.
(18) This manuscript is concerned with concepts rather than abstruse details or mathematics.
(19) Model theory is a branch of mathematics that treats such abstruse questions as "is there another number system, different from 0,1,2, ... that satisfies all the axioms of arithmetic?"
Nebulous
Definition:
(a.) Cloudy; hazy; misty.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or having the appearance of, a nebula; nebular; cloudlike.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pentamidine aerosol was administered with an MA2 jet nebulizer.
(2) The sensitivity and specificity of three methods of provocation, ie, histamine, nebulized water, and exercise, were compared in 20 asthmatic and 20 control children between ages 5 and 13 years.
(3) To test the hypothesis that nebulized magnesium sulfate reverses methacholine-induced bronchospasm in asthmatic patients.
(4) Ten patients had no abnormality associated with isoproterenol hydrochloride or placebo nebulizations.
(5) It was concluded that administration of nebulized terbutaline, at a dose of 5 mg, was both safe and effective in treating acute asthma, and may be used as the first line measure in treating acute asthma in children.
(6) The sensitivity and specificity of cold air, ultrasonically nebulized distilled water mist (USM), and standard methacholine (MCH) challenges were studied in 21 children with asthma (mean age 11.5 years) and 12 normal children (mean age 14.2 years).
(7) The airway responses to histamine, exercise and ultrasonically nebulized hypertonic saline have been compared in ten asthmatic patients.
(8) Finally, the removal of the preservatives EDTA and benzylchonium chloride from Atrovent nebulizer solution has removed the risk of paradoxical bronchoconstriction occurring.
(9) The antibacterial potential of copper mesh in heated nebulizers was evaluated by simulating clnical usage in the laboratory and comparing the relationship between the copper levels achieved in nebulizer water and the growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa organisms.
(10) Two radiopharmaceuticals, 99mTc-DTPA (D) and 99mTc-rhenium sulfur (R), were evaluated with a nebulizer delivering submicronic particles.
(11) No significant differences were found between the two solutions at any time after nebulization in minimum and maximum changes from baseline value or in the areas under the lung function time curves.
(12) The acute effect on lung function of nebulized salbutamol and saline (placebo) has been investigated in preterm infants at follow-up.
(13) Each subject was challenged through a nasal mask connected to nebulizer filled with house dust.
(14) A solution of hypertonic (7 percent) saline was nebulized.
(15) In our patients with uncomplicated chronic obstructive lung disease, nebulization of adrenergic bronchodilators seemed an infrequent cause of cardiac arrhythmias.
(16) We studied the frequency of malfunction, variability in rate of nebulization, and effect of this variability on aerosol particle size of eight disposable jet nebulizer models produced by six manufacturers.
(17) For DVT prophylaxis following abdominal surgery a single application of nebulized heparin and long acting anabolic steroid is as effective as conventional low-dose subcutaneous heparin administration, but gives less haemorrhagic complications.
(18) Twenty-eight patients with allergic perennial rhinitis treated for 2 years with parenteral semidepot immunotherapy were divided into two groups of 14 patients: group A receiving conventional aerosol nebulization (TNE), and group B, which received TNAI using a type F aerosol electrocompressor.
(19) Therefore, the inferior response to albuterol administered by ultrasonic nebulizer was at least in part due to the superimposed broncho-constriction occurring with ultrasonically administered saline solution.
(20) One-hundred nebulizer trials were performed in 98 adult patients with chronic airflow limitation who had remained symptomatic despite regular use of bronchodilators by metered dose or dry powder inhalation.