What's the difference between acumen and acuminous?

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.

Acuminous


Definition:

  • (a.) Characterized by acumen; keen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cell-mediated response in 60 patients affected by acuminated condylomas has been studied; this was investigated with aspecific in vivo tests (intradermal-reaction with tuberculin, trichophytin, candidine) and by in vitro tests (blood test with cell count, lymphocyte typing, serum proteins, serum immunoglobulin) and was compared with a control group.
  • (2) Giant condyloma acumination, also called Bürschke-Loewenstein disease, is a pseudo-tumoral epithelial proliferation of viral origin (human papilloma virus).
  • (3) The acuminate or "masculine" type is present in approximately half of the men and 10 percent of the women.
  • (4) An acuminate interalveolar septum predominates in normal children, but diastema and the child's age are conducive to its flattening.
  • (5) The distribution of pubic hair was classified into four types, designated as horizontal, sagittal, acuminate and disperse.

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