(a.) Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye.
(a.) Obvious to the mental eye; easily recognized; clearly defined; notable; prominent; eminent; distinguished; as, a conspicuous excellence, or fault.
Example Sentences:
(1) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
(2) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
(3) Two mechanisms are evident in chicks' spatial representations: a metric frame for encoding the spatial arrangement of surfaces as surfaces and a cue-guidance system for encoding conspicuous landmarks near the target.
(4) Which certainly isn't a charge you can level at Sony – in recent years, it has conspicuously championed indies (winning a hatful of Baftas for Journey and The Unfinished Swan in the process).
(5) Postoperative haemodynamics in patients with cardiac disease followed the same trends as in normal patients; there were, however, no significant changes in cardiac index or central pressures, and in general the cardiovascular reaction to operation was less conspicuous than in the group of normal patients.
(6) This implies that there is no important loss of motor units and no conspicuous muscle fiber degeneration in fibromyalgia.
(7) However, if solubility is considered as a function of pH at equilibrium, i.e., the final pH after the dissolution products have entered the solvent--a model more akin to the in vivo situation--hydroxyapatite is the conspicuously more soluble of the two minerals.
(8) SER proliferation in rat and monkey liver cells was less conspicuous than in mice.
(9) Another conspicuous histologic finding observed in the WKY hearts was that the continuity of the latitudinal fiber bundle of the ventricular septum with that of the left ventricular free wall, an important functioning unit for pressure generation in the left ventricle, was markedly disturbed in the area of junction between the 2 walls; the smaller the continuity, the greater the cardiac hypertrophy; the disadvantage of the discontinuity for the pressure generation may be related to the development of cardiac hypertrophy.
(10) The media theorist Nathan Jurgenson reads it as "conspicuous acquisition", after Thorstein Verblen's notion of conspicuous consumption.
(11) Both patients continue to use the device voluntarily; a smaller unit, however, that doesn't have the conspicuous external controls, would likely be readily acceptable to most young patients.
(12) But the large sums that undercut Hillary’s sudden fondness for economic populism will undercut Biden just as much, especially if raised conspicuously quickly.
(13) Among the most conspicuous features found were the presence of very distinct desmosome-like structures between blastomeres, and the cytoplasmic cell organelles distribution in three areas referred as: a sub-cortical, a middle and a perinuclear bands.
(14) Both tumors were solid, without conspicuous vascular differentiation by light microscopy.
(15) The study in which the animals were killed serially revealed that CTP had conspicuous damage on the respiratory system of rats, especially on the bronchiolo-alveolar areas.
(16) Hence the finding of six individuals with both these conditions in a small population with testicular cancer is highly conspicuous and indicates some kind of connection among such persons.
(17) PFB was conspicuously increased in maternal blood sera.
(18) The principal disadvantage, that this is a conspicuous donor site, has not been a source of concern for our patients.
(19) Histologically the most conspicuous were the findings of the hyaline alveolar membrane and the cellular atypia of endothel of the alveoles and the lymph-ducts.
(20) At the stage when each placode first becomes visible conspicuous differences have been seen in the surface morphology between those cells which will invaginate and form the placode and those which will remain on the surface of the head, forming the epidermis.
Discernible
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being discerned by the eye or the understanding; as, a star is discernible by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, no evidence could be discerned to support its validity as a measure of a patient's treatment outcome.
(2) Of 55 new open reading frames analysed by gene disruption, three are essential genes; of 42 non-essential genes that were tested, 14 show some discernible effect on phenotype and the remaining 28 have no overt function.
(3) This was apparent by standard flux techniques only in low (65 mM) Na solutions, but was readily discernible in normal Na (125 mM) with the "lanthanum-residual" technique.
(4) By this method two types of granules have been discerned according to their different contrasts.
(5) Several stages in its histogenesis may be discerned: I. focal necroses of hepatic cells associated with their invasion with lister Listeria; 2. appearance of cellular elements around the foci of necroses with subsequent formation of granulemas consisting mainly of leucocytes and lymphoid cells; 3. development of necrobiotic changes in the central areas of granulemas with concomitance of exudative processes; 4. organization of necrotic foci with subsequent scarring.
(6) Significant increment in lipid peroxidation was discernible in brain, liver and muscle.
(7) While there's no discernible forró influence in the dreamy 80s indie-guitar music of Fortaleza's Cidadão Instigado, they do take influence from popular local style brega, a 1970s and 80s Brazilian romantic pop music.
(8) Furthermore, individual AgNOR dots were much more readily discerned in cell imprints than in sections, and this appears to be the method of choice if pathologists wish to at least approach absolute rather than relative AgNOR counts.
(9) In order to assess the sensitivity of these techniques, and to discern minimal criteria for their conduct, a survey of 113 human lymphocyte cytogenetic surveillance studies conducted between 1965 and 1984 has been undertaken.
(10) Changes in the secretory process were discernible as of day 1 in all three tumors, with a dramatic reduction of exocytosis and intracellular accumulation of PRL-immunoreactive granules.
(11) The advent of cyclosporine A provides the dermatologist with a new therapeutic strategem in the management of psoriasis, although the long-term safety of such interventional therapy remains to be discerned.
(12) Histologically, no discernible changes in the hair cells or sensory hairs were found with a scanning electron microscope at about 6 hours after 10 krad irradiation, while with a transmission electron microscope, the outer hair cells in the basal coil of the cochlea were found to be mostly destroyed.
(13) However, by phase microscopy, no changes are discernible within the first 12-18 h. Since the primary NGF receptor appears to be a membrane receptor, it seemed likely that some of the initial responses to the factor may be surface related.
(14) Whereas no discernible differences on survival were documented on a long-term basis, when patient who ultimately recurred in each group were compared, a substantial and statistically significant prolongation of the free-of-disease interval from surgery to recurrence and of survival from recurrence to death are revealed.
(15) The results suggest that TGF-beta 1 has powerful anti-inflammatory effects, mimicking in some respects the beneficial effects of immunosuppressive drugs in these experimental models of autoimmune disease, but without discernable adverse effects.
(16) Temporal differences in the expression of sugar-binding proteins and different patterns of staining of the component cell types of human placenta were discerned, especially pronounced for alpha-fucoside-specific binding in the trophoblast and alpha-glucoside-specific binding in fetal and maternal macrophages.
(17) They’re all basically the same, but the tiny, barely discernible differences between them consume vast amounts of energy and generate heartache for everyone involved.
(18) Judged radiographically, partial obliteration (pulp chamber not discernible, root canal markedly narrowed but clearly visible) had occurred in 44 teeth (36%).
(19) Starch ingestion had no discernible effect on postprandial lipemia.
(20) We conclude that long-term prophylaxis with TMP-SMZ does not produce discernable hematologic, renal, or hepatic toxicity in renal transplant recipients nor does it augment nephrotoxicity with cyclosporine or increase the risk of rejection.