What's the difference between concise and incisive?

Concise


Definition:

  • (a.) Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It allows for a clear and concise convenience of information about the disease processes, use of medications, and treatment options.
  • (2) Identification of attribute sets for the nature-of-injury (body region:detailed part:type of injury) and for the mode-of-injury (mechanism:agent:activity:intent:setting) allows the assembly of a clear, concise, easily usable, nad extensible format for representing the appropriate level of detail for nomenclature or classification.
  • (3) Fillings were made of Concise composite resin, without applying an intermediary resin (1), after applying the resin layer (2), after diluting the mix with one (3) or two (4) drops of catalyst resin but without an intermediary resin, and after diluting the mix and applying the resin layer (5).
  • (4) The authors present the modern concepts about the etiology, pathogenesis clinical, X-ray and laboratory characteristics of Löfgren's syndrome in a concise form and then--their own observation on that clinical X-ray variant of sarcoidosis.
  • (5) Many descriptors might be used to describe the relationships between apparent heterogeneity and the size of the observed spatial elements, but we have found that fractal relationships provide concise and precise descriptions of many types of data over large ranges of element sizes.
  • (6) Take as brief, concise, and accurate a history as possible.
  • (7) This review will give a concise description of their biochemical nature, their isolation from macrophages and their angiogenic activity.
  • (8) This article gives a concise guide to the insertion of pulmonary arterial flotation catheters with the emphasis on points of safety that should minimize the risk to the patient.
  • (9) Scotchbond was used as the bonding agent in half of the prepared cavities' dentin and enamel; the control group (B) used Concise bonding agent in the enamel only.
  • (10) Pore flow models are classified and concisely reviewed, and it is shown that despite their apparent differences, they are equivalent.
  • (11) As these are now being finalized and not yet approved for release, INR can only highlight the contents of this concise, authoritative document, which should become an indispensable handbook on AIDS for nurses and other health personnel when available.
  • (12) To the practicing radiologist, it may offer a concise review of the subject and facilitate upgrading operative cholangiography in his hospital.
  • (13) Certain elements are of prime importance in the success of the development of such a service: (1) organization--concise knowledge of objectives, cost, and benefits, with emphasis on employee satisfaction; (2) staff--selection of interested, imaginative medical personnel and use of expanded role nurses as full-time health providers requiring a minimum of direct medical supervision; (3) collaboration--participation by both medical and nursing professions, educators as well as clinicians, in the formulation and direction of the service.
  • (14) Fotofil had lower values of modulus of elasticity, water sorption, and linear coefficient of thermal expansion than Concise.
  • (15) The description of psychophysical data in this concise quantifiable manner may offer better insight into physiological processes contributing to the appreciation of effort.
  • (16) Concise and quick delineation of cystic from solid masses is necessary.
  • (17) The result is a coherent, concise, accurate and rich explanation of Heart Failure Programs' diagnostic hypotheses.
  • (18) Because we are actively working with government, at our cost, to make sure that the legislative footprint we are working with is as clear and concise as it can possibly be."
  • (19) One such benefit is the ability to request and receive rapidly, a concise, yet complete legal summary of a patient's hospital course.
  • (20) But the frailty of a three-minute song – the concise honesty of that expression – amazes me and turns me into a bucket of jealousy.

Incisive


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; cutting; hence, sharp; acute; sarcastic; biting.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the incisors; incisor; as, the incisive bones, the premaxillaries.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Midsagittal or parasagittal pontomedullary brainstem incisions were performed in 4 cats.
  • (2) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
  • (3) In a double-blind trial, 50 patients with subcostal incisions performed for cholecystectomy or splenectomy, received 10 ml of either 0.5% bupivacaine plain or physiological saline twice daily by wound perfusion through an indwelling drainage tube for 3 days after operation.
  • (4) Measurements were made of the width of the marginal gap for three sites at each of four stages: (1) after the shoulder firing, (2) after the body-incisal firing, (3) after the glaze firing, and (4) after a correction firing.
  • (5) The reduction in respiratory function in those subjects without an abdominal incision demonstrated that other factors, particularly the influence of a general anaesthesia, need to be taken into account.
  • (6) It is unnecessary to make any special more complicated incision designed to avoid lymphatics.
  • (7) The advantages of pars plana approach are the small incision and minimal ocular manipulation during surgery.
  • (8) The operative approach is through an incision above the medial canthus.
  • (9) The authors recall the advantages of low transcartilage incision in rhinoplasty and, by means of several technical details, illustrate the value of this approach in submucosal dissection.
  • (10) By making the incision inside the hairline, there is no increase in the height of the pubic hair.
  • (11) If transportation is unduly delayed, immediate linear incision and suction may be of value.
  • (12) Following orthodontic treatment the canine's incisal edge occlusion demonstrates the tip and torque present in the appliance that was used.
  • (13) Middle-ear exploration in six patients revealed abundant granulation tissue; multiple granulomas and acid-fast bacilli were demonstrated on a section of tissue from one patient with a nonhealing mastoidectomy incision.
  • (14) At surgery, upon incision of the paravertebral muscle fascia, viscous pale fluid was encountered emanating from a foramen in the thoracic lamina.
  • (15) The sample was divided into three groups based on the degree of pretreatment overbite: openbite subsample--no incisal overlap; overlap subsample--incisal overlap and no incisal contact; contact subsample--incisal overlap with incisal contact.
  • (16) The usual approach to the inferior orbit has been through a subciliary skin incision and dissection of a skin flap to the orbital rim.
  • (17) Bojan Krkic had been snuffed out in his central role for Stoke and Hughes’s tweaks would have paid off if Diouf’s finishing had been more incisive.
  • (18) Compared with a matched group without ultrasonic visualization, the eventual site for uterine incision and morbidity to the mother and fetus were not significantly different.
  • (19) The incision was then extended toward the opening of the left coronary artery.
  • (20) Not intimately associated with a nonvital tooth or found to have any communication with the incisive canal.