(n.) A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness.
(n.) Security; guaranty; bail.
(n.) Precept or warning against evil of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction.
(v. t.) To give notice of danger to; to warn; to exhort [one] to take heed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both apertures were repaired with great caution using individual sutures without resection of the hernial sac.
(2) Potential revisions of the scale, as well as cautions for its use in clinical applications on its present form are discussed.
(3) Further work is required to determine whether such a risk exists but caution should be exercised by those exposed to aerosols generated during procedures on HIV-1 infected patients.
(4) Hoare was subsequently interviewed under caution by the Metropolitan police.
(5) Long courses of sucralfate should be used with caution or avoided in CRF.
(6) Thus, in spite of its excellent activity and unquestionable effectiveness, rifampicin should be used with caution in severe staphylococcal infections.
(7) The exaggerated buckles used do not allow these monkeys to serve as a clinical model and great caution is stressed in making clinical extrapolations.
(8) While LCA-immunoperoxidase staining reduces interobserver variability, results must be interpreted with caution since this antibody stains other leukocytes in addition to lymphocytes.
(9) Since not all of the plastics industries in the two countries participated in the studies and the number of cases was small, the result must be interpreted with caution.
(10) However caution must be used in interpreting that result, since subjects were allowed to adjust the telephone handset position to maximize the signal level in any given condition.
(11) A small risk of cholelithiasis exists with these drugs, and caution should be used when combining these drugs with HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors because the combination increases the incidence of hyperlipidemic myositis and rhabdomyolysis.
(12) Since vitamin C and aspirin seem to act synergistically in producing hemorrhagic lesions in the stomach, it is recommended that all individuals taking megadoses of vitamin C be cautioned against taking aspirin concurrently.
(13) It cautioned that any injectable drugs made by NECC, including those intended for use in eyes, are of "significant concern".
(14) However, when evaluating antiestrogens, which are cell-cycle specific, the results of the [3H]-thymidine incorporation method should be interpreted with caution.
(15) This finding imposes some caution in applying the results obtained in skinned cardiac cells to intact tissue.
(16) In CT diagnosis for this type of dissection, cautions should be employed not only in an inhomogenous density area in the mediastinum and pleural cavity but also in the presence of deviation of intimal calcification and relatively high density area of crescent shape in aortic wall on plain CT.
(17) And Myers is cautioned after a silly block 3.21am GMT 54 mins Besler with a long-throw for SKC but it's cleared.
(18) In light of the AIDS epidemic and the necessity for safe-sex practices, the topic of caution and prevention is an emerging and critical discourse for the sexual encounter.
(19) Consequently, the present results may mean that the studies using uptake of [3H]GABA, [3H]ACHC, or [3H]DABA as a specific marker for GABAergic neurons differentiating during the ontogenetic development of the central nervous system may have to be interpreted with caution.
(20) Although caution must be advised in the extrapolation of this phenomenon, which was observed in a manipulated artery during coronary angioplasty, the vasoconstrictor response to intracoronary thrombus formation in vivo may play an important role in the dynamic mechanisms of acute coronary heart disease syndromes.
Touchy
Definition:
(a.) Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.
Example Sentences:
(1) Davey has made it clear there will be no attempt to compete with Classic FM, which, with its touchy feeliness and “smiling down the airwaves”, has almost treble Radio 3’s audience.
(2) Perhaps the new Marr has yet to make his touchy-feely debut.
(3) Voters looking for further nuance might have been left a little underwhelmed, not least by the expectation that world-famous analytic philosophers tend not to rely on anything as touchy feely as intuition.
(4) She also combines a refusal to do touchy-feely with a sharp eye for a populist policy – support for bobbies on the beat, for example – that has proved a winning combination in Westminster and among the rightwing press.
(5) In recent weeks he has appeared uncharacteristically downbeat and touchy.
(6) Broadcasters and production companies are touchy when asked about their policies on inclusion.
(7) The "feminisation of European culture" has been underway since the 1830s, and by now, men have been reduced to an "emasculate[d] … touchy-feely subspecies".
(8) In terms of affective complaints, patients were more depressive, anxious, touchy and irritable; their personalities showed a higher degree of emotional lability, excitement and irritability.
(9) In that time, I never achieved the serene illusion of infallibility that distinguishes Jimmy: “I haven’t been wrong about a play since 1924, and on that night I happened to be afflicted with a head cold.” He is selfish, rude, touchy, spoilt, extravagant and, in the way of such characters, much loved by his friends.
(10) And it is hard to look at the pictures, ubiquitous this morning, without a disgracefully touchy-feely, yes, I fear, even protectively feminine response.
(11) It was Mr Kohl's "touchy-feely" politics that enabled him to forge a relationship with François Mitterrand that was the bedrock of the German-French axis within the European Union and which enabled the swift reunification of Germany .
(12) On the other hand, the company appears touchy about being pressed on such subjects.
(13) As it develops, digital is becoming more touchy-feely and more sensory,” Jones notes.
(14) Since taking over at the Vatican, Francis has urged the Catholic church not to be obsessed with "small-minded rules" and to emphasise compassion over condemnation in dealing with touchy topics like abortion, gay rights and contraception.
(15) It would not be surprising if the UN is touchy about its approach to population questions.
(16) "It's a touchy subject, but as a southerner you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary.
(17) Even primary school children seem well aware that who did what in the Levant before the war is a touchy subject.
(18) It is a touchy subject for Rohingya, many of whom lack any documentation but insist that their ancestors were born and bred in the state.
(19) Among the names who have fired away are CJ Wilson, Max Scherzer, Brad Ziegler, Skip Schumaker and his Dodgers teammate Matt Kemp, who said: Talking about things like this is very, very touchy.
(20) You see this trend of self-publication: things being democratised all over the place like photography and video, but this is something that hasn’t really been democratised yet.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest I can see how this might be a sensitive topic for some DJs who’ve worked hard to develop their skills over the years, only to see apps come along promising to let anyone have a bash, complete with that sync feature – a whole other touchy topic in itself – to make the actual mixing less of a challenge.