(a.) Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary; watchful; as, a cautious general.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
(2) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(3) He looks set to become a stronger leader than his cautious predecessor, Hu Jintao, but he is no radical reformer, experts say.
(4) Cautious fluid administration and observation for cardiopulmonary deterioration are crucial in management of the critically ill, high-risk group of HELLP syndrome patients with large-volume ascites.
(5) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
(6) Banks have become particularly cautious of money transfer services such as Western Union , which are perceived as particularly open to abuse.
(7) Merkel is above all a cautious politician who recognises the limits of her power.
(8) But providers are cautious about participating in the Essential Access Community Hospital (EACH) program until final rules are published.
(9) The chancellor deliberately made cautious assumptions for the deficit in the budget, but the 5.6% contraction in the economy has blown an even bigger hole in the public finances than feared in April.
(10) Elderly listeners exhibited less cautious response criteria than did younger listeners.
(11) Cautious welcome for changes DAC’s decisions have had a mixed reception.
(12) Green groups were hostile or reacted cautiously to the report.
(13) Darling, one of the Cabinet's Eeyores, took a more cautious view but even he has been surprised by the length, depth and breadth of the crisis.
(14) The test must therefore be applied cautiously to seronegative animals.
(15) Only selected samples were analyzed in 1973; therefore, these figures should be used only cautiously as trend data.
(16) Yet the mood on Friday night among the hundreds of (very young) party workers and activists was cautious.
(17) Cautious conclusion should advise to use Collins solution when there has not been a long warm ischemia.
(18) Interpretation must be cautious, because these analyses are based on relatively few cases and on single 24-h urine samples.
(19) The cautious study began with small extramarginal skin excisions and progressed gradually via moderate sized juxtamarginal excisions of skin and orbicularis lamella to full-thickness margin-inclusive excisions.
(20) But had it been couched in "more cautious terms or less certain terms may not have been capable of criticism at all".
Steep
Definition:
(a.) Bright; glittering; fiery.
(v. t.) To soak in a liquid; to macerate; to extract the essence of by soaking; as, to soften seed by steeping it in water. Often used figuratively.
(v. i.) To undergo the process of soaking in a liquid; as, the tea is steeping.
(n.) Something steeped, or used in steeping; a fertilizing liquid to hasten the germination of seeds.
(n.) A rennet bag.
(v. t.) Making a large angle with the plane of the horizon; ascending or descending rapidly with respect to a horizontal line or a level; precipitous; as, a steep hill or mountain; a steep roof; a steep ascent; a steep declivity; a steep barometric gradient.
(v. t.) Difficult of access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.
(v. t.) Excessive; as, a steep price.
(n.) A precipitous place, hill, mountain, rock, or ascent; any elevated object sloping with a large angle to the plane of the horizon; a precipice.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dose response effect in this tumor is steep and combinations which compromise the dose of adriamycin too greatly are showing inferior results.
(2) Steep longitudinal and transverse gradients of glycogen are known to exist in the organ of Corti of the guinea pig, with preferential accumulation in the outer hair cells of the apical turns.
(3) The steep portion of the relationship between Retzius cell action potential amplitude and membrane potential extrapolated to an apparent reversal potential of -13 mV.
(4) This property of endotoxin can serve as a sensitive bioassay, although the dose-response curve is steep.
(5) With its steep hills and cobblestones, the neighbourhood of São Cristóvão in Ouro Preto isn’t an easy place to play football.
(6) Four patients with herpes zoster ophthalmicus developed peripheral corneal ulcers with steep central edges.
(7) The results showed that measurements of impression profiles and SEM photogrammetry gave the most accurate results adjacent to regions simulating steep cavity margins, whereas the profilometric technique gave erroneous results in these regions.
(8) The intensity dependence of the early ganglion cell discharge, its latency and initial impulse frequency, is shown to follow from such a waveform, assuming that 1) latency L = l + D, where l is the time it takes for the rod response linearly summed over the ganglion cell's receptive field to reach a criterion amplitude, and D is a constant delay; and 2) the initial frequency (below saturation) is proportional to the steepness of rise of the summed rod response at time l. It is shown that the intensity dependences of 1) human visual latency and 2) brightness sensation, including effects of stimulus area and duration, are accounted for by the same model.
(9) The new protocol (standardised exponential exercise protocol, STEEP) is suitable for use on either a treadmill or a bicycle ergometer.
(10) Based on the signals observed by organ absorbance spectrophotometry from two compartments with oxidases of markedly different O2 sensitivity, the mitochondria and the peroxisomes, a distribution between high O2 and zero O2 zones is postulated, an intermediate border zone of O2 concentrations between the K0,5 (O2) values being virtually absent (steep intercellular O2 gradients).
(11) A man who had been near them reached the hotel terrace first, scrambling up a steep sandy bank.
(12) Patients with steep sloping audiograms understand better and patients with a conductive hearing loss component understand less in noisy circumstances with a hearing aid.
(13) The operational values are useful in characterising the steepness of dose-incidence curves for normal tissue injury after different fractionation schedules.
(14) Scarborough council said leaving the houses standing could cause a domino-effect down the steep slope above the picturesque harbour where the explorer Captain James Cook lodged and learned his seafaring skills.
(15) It is shown that this individual exhibits approximate alignment of her photoreceptors with the center of the retinal sphere, clear evidence of side lobes on functions, and surprisingly steep SCE I functions.
(16) For cross-linked alpha alpha, however, the curve sags at temperatures somewhat below the region of principal cooperative loss of helix, the latter occurring at higher temperature but with the same steepness as in the non-cross-linked case.
(17) A reduced venous compliance (VC) and inadequate venoconstriction may impair hemodynamics during hemodialysis, the first by impairing plasma volume preservation and by inducing a steep fall in central venous pressure (CVP) during minor plasma volume loss, the second by inadequate mobilization of hemodynamically inactive blood volume.
(18) A generally similar pattern is seen in healthy controls and in patients with untreated pulmonary tuberculosis, treated leprosy, haemophilia A and chronic obstructive lung disease (COLD) patients treated with prednisolone, but the gradient of increasing CD4:CD8 ratio with depth into the dermis is significantly less steep in patients with tuberculosis, haemophilia and prednisolone-treated COLD than in the healthy controls.
(19) Some problem drugs may be recognized if they display one or more of the following characteristics: narrow therapeutic index, steep dose-effect relationship, nonlinear kinetics, variable bioavailability, and pharmacogenetically determined kinetics.
(20) Replacement of a half of Ca++ ions by Sr++ resulted in an augmentation of steepness of the dependence on sum of [Ca++] and [Sp++], and in a more prominent fall in relaxation velocity as compared with contraction velocity.