(a.) Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong; -- said of a person.
(a.) Characterized by a regard to conscience; conformed to the dictates of conscience; -- said of actions.
Example Sentences:
(1) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
(2) A much more important factor was the well organized program for preparation of the patients, skillfully carried out by a conscientious staff.
(3) Four patients died of cirrhosis of the liver: two of them had not taken the drugs conscientiously.
(4) • This article was amended on 10 September 2013 to correct the number of conscientious objectors in the first world war from 6,000 to 16,000 and to clarify that conscientious objectors were not executed.
(5) For example, more than 40% of the critical incidents pertained to the conscientiousness dimension.
(6) Three constructs of TUA were identified: passive fatalistic, egoistic, and conscientious.
(7) Consistent and conscientious nursing care and assessments are known to have significant impact on the morbidity and mortality associated with increased intracranial pressure.
(8) Anyone who attended one of the many conferences dedicated to his work observed how conscientiously he listened to every paper (whether by a famous thinker or a graduate student), took careful notes, and asked polite but searching questions.
(9) Most major institutions now have qualified and credentialed laboratory animal medicine specialists directing their programs, conscientious and responsive animal care and use committees overseeing and evaluating animal welfare, and qualified, well-trained animal care staff and investigators.
(10) Their personalities are characterized by conscientiousness, reliability and industriousness.
(11) Laboratory experience prior to clinical use is mandatory and takes several months of conscientious application.
(12) It is, therefore, not possible to perform this job on a side-line, as it would be a fulltime job to be a conscientious school physician.
(13) "She is very warm and frank, and when she is talking to people she conscientiously listens to what they have to say," said Wu Qing, a retired professor of Beijing Foreign Studies University who met Obama on Sunday.
(14) Good clinical practice will permit the conscientious optometrist to identify those patients who have very early signs of this disease.
(15) She apparently thought she could “conscientiously object” and keep the perks of the job she conscientiously objects to performing at the same time.
(16) The difference manifesting itself in the barbiturate elimination among diabetic and non-diabetic pregnancies, draws attention to the conscientious selection of drugs and doses employed in the course of narcosis during Caesarean section.
(17) As these agents become more effective, especially against long-wave UV radiation, and as patients begin to use them more conscientiously, we should experience a decrease in skin cancer rates.
(18) Powell's world is well supplied with pubs without being beery, and there are times when the streets are thronged with well-born paupers conscientiously dodging their creditors.
(19) Asked by Young if she was a conscientious student, May said: “I’m afraid so, yes.
(20) Emphasis is placed on careful and conscientious decisions by the young woman who wants an abortion and the important people in her environment who will affect her decision to abort.
Meticulous
Definition:
(a.) Timid; fearful.
Example Sentences:
(1) The catheter must be meticulously fixed to the skin to avoid its movement.
(2) Diagnosis and identification of the site of the leak is often inaccurate, even with meticulous care given to placing and removing the nasal pledgets.
(3) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
(4) For the management and prevention of the recurrent ascending infections long-term urinary disinfection and meticulous toilet of the external meatus are recommended.
(5) This higher-than-expected rate of positive cultures was probably related to the meticulous bacteriologic techniques used.
(6) Also, when using these drugs, one must often follow a meticulously graduated dosage regimen, while carefully monitoring the patient for toxic and potentially lethal side effects.
(7) Unlike posterior tympanoplasty, this technique makes it possible to meticulously remove the osteitic bone invariably found in the facial recess when there is infection of the retraction pocket.
(8) Recognize the high-risk patient and examine the oral cavity meticulously.
(9) Meticulous histologic examination of the resected specimens revealed no residual cancer cells.
(10) The only appropriate treatment of congenital facial and cervical C and F is surgery providing that the resection is meticulous with complete resection of the fistula in order to avoid relapse.
(11) Recurrences cannot always be avoided but the frequency can be reduced by meticulous removal of all diseased and normal connective tissue in this area.
(12) Specialist learning disability liaison nurse Jainab Desai is making meticulous checks of the complex arrangements to receive a tricky patient with learning disabilities, with staff of the day surgery unit at Royal Bolton hospital.
(13) All the patients underwent abdominal exploration, and CAGB was confirmed by the meticulous dissection of the entire extrahepatic biliary tree and the operative cholangiography.
(14) A meticulous review of the literature and several personal surgical cases confirms the view that only those diverticula causing evident symptoms or complications should be treated.
(15) The second patient was a 2-year-old female with anterior mediastinal and paratracheal masses and severe respiratory compromise, who was operated under general inhalation anesthesia and spontaneous breathing for biopsy of supraclavicular lymphadenopathy, after a meticulous preanesthetic evaluation.
(16) Meticulous handling of the graft (using a Goeller trephine and Tenon's traction sutures), filleting Tenon's capsule and avoiding cautery of the graft bed may minimize graft necrosis and atrophy.
(17) Their incidence could be reduced by more meticulous patient care.
(18) Meticulous attention to the cerebrospinal fluid draining system is needed in patients with a fistula to avoid the development of this unusual complication.
(19) It appears that early aggressive operation, and meticulous postoperative care, have contributed to the higher survival rate in recent years.
(20) The success of the modified technique depends upon meticulous methodology.