(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.
Sententious
Definition:
(a.) Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.
(a.) Comprising or representing sentences; sentential.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study provides normative data for teenagers' performance on tests of time-compressed sentential material.
(2) Consistent with previous reports of normative data at other age levels, performance became poorer for 0 to either 40 or 60% TC (there was a negligible difference between the latter), was better for normal sentences than for sentential approximations, and improved slightly in the higher grades.
(3) Stimuli that were syntactically structured and contained a sentencelike rhythm were spoken with shorter durations than nonsyntactic stimuli with sentential rhythm but only by 8-year-olds and adults.
(4) Both samples of disabled readers appeared able to use syntactic information as an independent source of sentential information in reading, even the sample whose reading disability was associated with oral syntax deficits.
(5) The appropriateness of using a picture description task which involves a perceptual step-by-step account of unrelated events to assess sentential semantics and the conveying of information at a conceptual level is discussed.
(6) In an initial paper on this topic (Rips, 1989), I proposed a model for a subset of such problems that depend on sentential reasoning.
(7) Ability of eight good and eight poor readers (in Grade 1, ages ranging from 6.7 to 7.4 yr.) to discriminate phonemic contrasts presented in 50% time-compressed sentential stimuli (Subtest 13 of the Carrow-Auditory Visual Abilities Test) was measured.
(8) The latter findings suggest, respectively, that the semantic features of sentence subjects are of minimal relevance to the syntactic and morphological processes that implement agreement, and that agreement features are specified at a point in processing where the eventual length of sentential constituents has little effect on syntactic planning.
(9) The Hoppe-Bogen finding of alexithymia in 12 commissurotomy patients is examined, using 6 sentential-level items corresponding to 6 of the 8 key alexithymia items in the Beth Israel 'Psychosomatic Questionnaire'.
(10) The results suggest that native signers process lexical structural automatically, such that they can attend to and remember lexical and sentential meaning.
(11) This study compared the performance of normal-reading and reading-impaired children using time-compressed three- and five-word sentential approximations to full grammaticality, and the Word Intelligibility by Picture Identification (WIPI) test presented with and without pictures.
(12) 25 4-word, first, and second-order sentential approximations were presented to 18 aphasic and 18 normal children.
(13) This suggests that the presence of sentential context allows listeners to factor out the influence of phrase-final lengthening on vowel duration and to more accurately interpret this cue to voicing of the final fricative.
(14) Their account posits five processing strategies tailored to this problem domain and a mechanism for evaluating sentential arguments based on mental models.
(15) His solemnity and sententiousness are much better, much funnier, coming from someone so "young".
(16) The results show that sentential contexts do not preselect a set of contextually appropriate words before any sensory information about the spoken word is available.
(17) The present results suggest some disturbance in the patients' ability to manipulate fundamental frequency across sentential domains.
(18) This study measured the ability of 16 aged listeners, normal for their age (age range, 63 to 84 yr.) to discriminate phonemic contrasts in sentential stimuli (Subtest 13 of the Carrow-Auditory Visual Abilities Test) presented at 50% time-compression rate.
(19) Productions of phonemic stress tokens (e.g., Re'dcoat vs. red coa't) as well as examples of contrastive stress, or sentential emphasis (e.g., Sam hated the movie), were elicited from eight male speakers with unilateral right hemisphere CVAs and seven male control subjects.
(20) When Seb Coe stood up and said at the opening ceremony, before it all unfolded, that what he hoped for the Games was that "we will be able to tell our children and our grandchildren that we did it right", it sounded a bit sententious.