(n.) Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high incidence of infant astigmatism has implications for critical periods in human visual development and for infant acuity.
(2) We have now started a prospective follow-up study in order to pursue the development of (a) p-ERG amplitudes and (b) funduscopic changes and visual acuity in these patients.
(3) At this threshold there was no effect on reducing the rate of visual acuity overreferrals, but ten children with abnormal binocular vision were detected who were not referred by visual acuity criteria.
(4) Degraded visual acuity had a significant effect on cadence, foot placement, and foot clearance, but visual surround conditions did not.
(5) On the initial visit, the best corrected acuity with spectacles was determined and a potential acuity meter reading was obtained; this test suggested potential for visual recovery in two of the three patients.
(6) Visual acuity was improved in 77%, was worse in 13%, and unchanged in 10% of eyes.
(7) The contra-indications for them are: 1. a better visual acuity with spectacles than with contact lenses, 2. advanced cases (4th degree of Amsler) whose fitting is impossible, 3. unilateral keratoconus, 4. associated diseases such as trachomatous pannus, allergic kerato-conjunctivitis.
(8) Near acuity with distance correction was J2 or more in 93.1% of the bifocals and in 17.4% of the monofocals (without correction: 79.3% and 41.4%, respectively).
(9) A visual acuity of 0.05 or better was achieved in 36% of the eyes treated with silicone oil versus 67% of the eyes treated with gas tamponade.
(10) No complications occurred, and visual acuity was good.
(11) Myopia ranged from -1.0 D to -9.0 D. Forty-two eyes (53%) achieved uncorrected visual acuity (VA) of 1.0 or better and 73 eyes (92%) better than 0.5.
(12) In remote terms (after four months) further improvement of visual functions was recorded, visual acuity increased by 0.3-0.6 in 8 of 15 patients.
(13) We examined 84 eyes with different lens opacities, the visual acuity was analysed in relation to the axial, cortical and capsular cataract.
(14) If there is any advantage to a particular strategy for selecting the distance monovision eye, it must be realized in vision performance areas other than visual acuity.
(15) 9 of the injured eyes had a reduction of visual acuity to 0.5 or less as a consequence of lens or central fundus changings.
(16) Our experiments try to verify the possibility of assessing visual acuity in children under Ethrane anesthesia.
(17) The final visual acuity was 0.4 or better in 83.3% of the eyes with transient CME.
(18) Postoperatively, visual acuity was improved and symptoms of erosion decreased in both patients.
(19) Acuity for the direction of drift for these stimuli is of the same order of precision as orientation acuity for static or drifting gratings, and exhibits a meridional anisotropy that favours the principal meridians.
(20) The CNVMs were treated in four patients; final visual acuity was poor in all eight patients.
Acumen
Definition:
(n.) Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author's diagnostic acumen has increased with the addition of glenohumeral axillary arthrotomography, glenohumeral CT arthrography, glenohumeral arthroscopy, and other studies.
(2) Several interventions are suggested to improve the diagnostic acumen of primary care physicians.
(3) Thus, the aforementioned knowledge will allow an improved clinical acumen and permit the early diagnosis of postoperative infection.
(4) Emanuel has received backing from establishment Democrats and business leaders who have praised his financial acumen, including attracting new businesses and budget tightening to attempt to close a roughly $300m operating deficit.
(5) But Farage has reacted with characteristic political acumen.
(6) In March, he called Trump a “phony” and dissed Trump’s business acumen.
(7) Her clinical acumen was revealed by her ability to differentiate congenital hepatic fibrosis, Caroli's disease, and adult polycystic disease of the liver and kidney.
(8) But, at the same time, her acumen and agency were undermined every which way.
(9) The complexity of the vestibular system and its interactions with visual input, somatosensory input, motor response, and conscious awareness continue to challenge our technology and our clinical acumen.
(10) Its incidence has increased in the last decade because of improved neonatal care, increased awareness and clinical acumen of physicians, better diagnostic tools and the introduction of newer techniques in cardiac catheterization.
(11) Although increased understanding of normal carpal motion has led to more constructive use of roentgenography, the diagnostic acumen of the examiner is greatly enhanced by the standardization of radiographic views as well as by the use of special projections and when indicated, arthrograms.
(12) The only problem being: there is zero evidence to support the notion that two guys with no known cooking acumen came up with the recipe for deep dish pizza.
(13) It remains a real challenge to the diagnostic acumen and therapeutic skills of both the internist and the surgeon.
(14) Certainly few who knew him believe that he had the acumen to formulate the terrible plan he enacted on Monday.
(15) Like so many adjunct studies available to us today in medicine, it does not replace clinical acumen, but enhances evaluation.
(16) Throughout the convention, relatives and business associates lined up to regale the audience with tales of the nominee’s financial acumen.
(17) It constantly challenges the physician's investigative acumen.
(18) Oxford- and Harvard-educated, with an MSc in economics from the LSE, Cooper's intellectual acumen and grasp of the dismal science is not in question.
(19) Some internet archaeology had unearthed a few yellowing tweets from 2012 that showed him poking fun at stereotypical Jewish financial acumen (in his defence, his mother has Jewish parentage), at white women’s slight bottoms (“A hot white woman with ass is like a unicorn.
(20) Thus our experience suggests that bronchial challenge testing provides useful information to supplement clinical acumen in the diagnosis of asthma.