(a.) Attentive to all the circumstances of a case or the probable consequences of an action; cautious; prudent; wary.
Example Sentences:
(1) General anaesthesia with apneic oxygenation may offer the ENT surgeon increased possibilities of exploration and operation at the level of the larynx and trachea, but owing to its biological consequences, it should be used only with circumspection and its indications should be totally justified, for acts of limited duration.
(2) Although internal fixation in one stage as an emergency, is ideal in all fractures, one should in fact be circumspect for the danger of infection should lead one to avoid carrying out internal fixation if this is not absolutely necessary.
(3) But other veterans of the liberation struggle were less circumspect.
(4) Splenectomy therefore should be regarded with circumspection in the management of patients with spur cell hemolytic anemia.
(5) Those who argue that extra government spending today could prove as beneficial as in the 1930s still want safeguards and a little circumspection.
(6) His recent speeches show he is now more circumspect.
(7) Ferguson strove to unsettle City beforehand with a calculated outburst over the allegedly vainglorious streak in the people who run City but earlier still in the week he had suggested circumspectly that these opponents are bound to win a trophy in due course.
(8) Perhaps such mistakes are unsurprising: much of the letter was cut and pasted verbatim, without acknowledgement or circumspection, from a document published by an anti-windfarm group called Country Guardian.
(9) Why it should concern them is probably the subject of some disagreement … they’ve been quite circumspect.
(10) The Arab spring has had its impact in Gaza, although confrontation with the territory's rulers is more circumspect in part because, unlike the now-defunct regimes across the Arab world, Hamas won an open election.
(11) One of his more cautious colleagues, the engineer who helped the Atomic Energy Authority test what happened when a train travelling at 100 miles a hour crashed into a flask of nuclear waste, is a little more circumspect.
(12) Unless bombing is used circumspectly as a tool to bring Houthis to the negotiating table, it is unlikely to have any positive impact on the situation in Yemen.
(13) While Sagrans is circumspect in discussing Obama’s record – “I don’t think it’s so much what he has done, more what Warren is really going to fight for” – a post on Wimsatt’s blog in 2010 was more critical.
(14) As the crowd took a much-needed breather and the game entered its last 10 minutes, Santos finally made his first concession to circumspection, replacing Nani with an extra defensive anchor in Porto’s Danilo Pereira, knowing that a point would see his side through come what may.
(15) His circumspection might derive in part from his background; like Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly, two artists with whom Johns has much in common, he grew up in the south at a time when those with artistic aspirations were advised to suppress them.
(16) It’s true, the OBR has been very circumspect in its forecast.
(17) Advances in chemical, numerical, and molecular systematic methods have contributed greatly to the circumspection of the rhodococci, including the development of diagnostic fluoregenic probes for improved biochemical profiling and identification.
(18) The City would be more circumspect about openly bankrolling the Conservatives if it thought there was a possibility that Labour might win the next election.
(19) Of course we should be circumspect about fiscal intentions and suspicious about spending plans.
(20) Those charities who are too circumspect, those who have too many overly-cautious trustees who don't want to rock the boat and those who become too cosy with governments of any stripe, diminish their own purpose and threaten their existence.
Tangential
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a tangent; in the direction of a tangent.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the tangential views the inclinations of the future implants were estimated and the part of the alveolar ridge having a width less than 5 mm, which is the minimum width for housing an implant, was compiled.
(2) These tangential fibers are in part the preterminal arborizations of geniculocortical axons, since some of them have been shown to degenerate after geniculate lesions.
(3) These were not observed in area 5, although here the distribution of callosal neurons waxed and waned in the tangential cortical plane.
(4) In 2 patients the frontally recorded SEP component P20 was lost; in one of them the activity of mainly the tangential dipole was reduced.
(5) The derivatives of these cells spread out tangentially over the entire fundus of the eye in a concentric manner.
(6) The soft, dull, malacic appearance of the center results from lack of a true surface layer of tangential collagen fibers.
(7) Detection of the cysts was only possible after myelographic screening of all cases of tangential trauma.
(8) Tangential semithin sections of demineralized tooth germ were serially cut from the enamel surface to the enamel-dentin junction.
(9) The distances between the test points are reduced in tangential direction, compared to the chart.
(10) Parameters measured from simulator films included: (a) the perpendicular distance from the posterior tangential field edge to the posterior part of the anterior chest wall at the center of the field (CLD); (b) the maximum perpendicular distance from the posterior tangential field edge to the posterior part of the anterior chest wall (MLD); and (c) the length of lung (L) as measured at the posterior tangential field edge on the simulator film.
(11) One-hundred patients with anterior foot pain were examined by tangential sesamoid x-rays and some by bone scan.
(12) The tangential force caused massive swelling and one week later bowing of the forearm was noticed.
(13) The ferret callosal cell distribution has a greater tangential extent in area 18 than in area 17.
(14) These results suggested that AcMNPV-induced depolymerization of microtubules may be a necessary event in, rather than a tangential effect of, virus replication.
(15) The three-field breast set-up, in which tangential oblique opposed fields are joined to an anterior supraclavicular field, has been the method of choice for treatment of breast cancer for many years.
(16) This report quantifies the increase of burn survival, which we believe is associated with the use of early tangential excision and grafting as opposed to conventional therapy in adult patients with burns.
(17) Migration and early differentiation of neurons of the tangential vestibular nucleus of the chick take place between embryonic days 5 and 8.
(18) Data are acquired in the stationary mode only (no wobble motion), resulting in a transaxial spatial resolution of better than 6 mm full width at half-maximum (FWHM) at the center, which degrades to 7.5 mm tangentially and 9.6 mm radially at a radius of 20 cm.
(19) If the tangential velocity of the spot is constant, very large and subject-specific biases emerge in the perception of the aspect ratio.
(20) For the latter problem, the most employed solutions are: the inclusion of IMC in the tangential fields, the use of the direct or oblique electron beam for IMC alone.