(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.
Calibre
Definition:
(n.) The diameter of the bore, as a cannon or other firearm, or of any tube; or the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm will carry; as, an 8 inch gun, a 12-pounder, a 44 caliber.
(n.) The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet or column.
(n.) Fig.: Capacity or compass of mind.
Example Sentences:
(1) The remaining case had a calibre persistent submucosal artery within the caecum that was found incidentally in a resection specimen.
(2) Electromagnetic flow probes with an inner diameter of 2, 1.5 and 1 nm were used for studies on zero-line drifting and for calibration procedures in a series of rats and rabbits.
(3) Thus, the carotid pulse tracing provides an accurate reproduction of the morphology of the pressure tracing recorded from the ascending aorta, and when calibrated by peripheral blood pressure measurement, it can be used to calculate LV pressure throughout ejection.
(4) Statistical diagnostic tests are used for the final evaluation of the method acceptability, specifically in deciding whether or not the systematic error indicated requires a root source search for its removal or is simply a calibration constant of the method.
(5) The reference material, which must behave immunochemically the same as the patient's sample in all methods, is then used to assign a target value to the calibrator in each method and system.
(6) We conclude that the use of the multi-point calibration procedure presented in this article (based on calibration according to the instructions of the manufacturer and NCCLS EP-9P) greatly improves the intra-laboratory comparability and therefore should be part of multi-centre evaluations.
(7) Standard additions are unnecessary; Pt concentrations are read from a calibration chart of peak heights, which is linear up to 1.6 mg per liter.
(8) different plasmas representing seven levels of anticoagulation between international calibrated ratios (ICRs) from 1.5 to 4.5.
(9) The effect of nicotine on the nervous system during rapid smoking of two calibrated cigarettes was measured in twenty subjects: light, medium, heavy and non-smokers, across the changes of a number of electrophysiological variables and in different situations.
(10) The system established for control indicates the performance characteristics of each batch of thromboplastin in patients relative to a national calibration batch.
(11) Calibration is performed in the presence of the color additive by using the external standard method.
(12) Very good stability of the calibration curves (up to 2 months).
(13) Tone pulses and noise stimuli were mixed acoustically and presented using calibrated, sealed stimulating systems.
(14) Because flow and velocity are related, it is possible to estimate flow from velocity measurements with careful calibration and proper precautions.
(15) Calibrators and samples were prepared by mixing 200 microL of whole blood and 200 microL precipitation reagent and centrifuging at 10,000 rpm for 5 min (9600 x g).
(16) The calibration curve is expressed as a ratio of the activity bound to a different concentration of hormone and is described by a linear function with a correlation coefficient higher than 0.995.
(17) They also exhibited variations in calibre and sudden obstructions.
(18) The calibrated aperture in the bottom of each well is small enough to retain fluid contents by surface tension during monolayer growth, but also permits fluid to enter the wells when transfer plates are lowered into receptacles containing washing buffer or test sera.
(19) A method was developed for the preparation of a standard source to satisfy the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission requirement for calibration of wipe-assay procedures used in nuclear medicine laboratories.
(20) Satisfactory calibrations for lactose were obtained with the 2 Milko-scan 203 models with standard errors of estimate of 0.034 and 0.033%.