(a.) Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.
(a.) Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross; decisive; as, a crucial test.
Example Sentences:
(1) Therefore, the measurement of the alpha-antitrypsin content plays the crucial part in differential diagnosis of primary (hereditary determined) and secondary (obstructive) emphysema.
(2) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(3) The agriculture ministry raised the risk level of the virus spreading from moderate to high on Tuesday across the country, at a crucial time for the industry.
(4) Conservative commentators responded with fury to what they believed was inappropriate meddling at a crucial moment in the town hall debate.
(5) Although the performance aspects of electronic displays are crucial considerations in workstation design, experience suggests that human factors in mechanical operation, software accessibility, and workstation environment are also important.
(6) The secretary of state should work constructively with frontline staff and managers rather than adversarially and commit to no administrative reorganisation.” Dr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive, Health Foundation “It will be crucial that the next government maintains a stable and certain environment in the NHS that enables clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to continue to transform care and improve health outcomes for their local populations.
(7) The results suggest that the ACTH-containing part of the hypothalamus around the PVH is crucially involved in the organization of grooming behaviour.
(8) A functional impairment of the amino acid transport systems at the level of the blood-brain barrier seems to play a crucial role in causing deleterious modifications of the synaptic neurotransmission in the central nervous system.
(9) The cerebral distribution and regulation of excitatory amino acid levels may play a crucial role in neuronal development.
(10) Imagining faces was also the only condition that led to an increase of activity in the left inferior occipital region which has been suggested by previous studies as being a crucial area for visual imagery.
(11) This is the most crucial issue of our time and the people must be heard, not criminalised."
(12) Therefore it is crucial to investigate the role of glucocorticoids in non-pituitary tumours and this requires an understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in glucocorticoid inhibition of the normal POMC gene in the pituitary.
(13) The agreement, hailed as a "landmark" deal and a breakthrough by politicians and the green lobby alike, came before a crucial EU summit opening in Brussels tomorrow at which 27 prime ministers and presidents are supposed to finalise an ambitious package to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020.
(14) A comparison of the pharmacokinetics as well as the teratogenicity between cyclophosphamide and some specific deuterium-labeled analogues showed that the isotope effect observed can be related to a particular metabolic pathway crucial for teratogenic activation by this drug.
(15) The crucial issue of whether subtle behavioral, intellectual, and developmental impairment occurs in young children, as a result of lead-induced CNS damage is discussed in detail.
(16) The crucial point in all likelihood is the nature of this heme-binding protein.
(17) Standard criteria for staging and response evaluation, including pathologic documentation of remission status, are crucial.
(18) Given that a post-poll economy still registers as a crucial issue among undecided voters, and that matters economic are now his BBC day job, that was hardly surprising.
(19) Overall, these results confirm that the medial septum plays a crucial role in the acquisition of problem solving.
(20) He is joined by Cathy O’Toole, the ALP candidate for the crucial swing seat of Herbert where Rudd’s campaign bus has stopped on Sunday evening.
Salient
Definition:
(v. i.) Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping.
(v. i.) Shooting out or up; springing; projecting.
(v. i.) Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable.
(v. i.) Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reentering. See Illust. of Bastion.
(v. i.) Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion salient.
(a.) A salient angle or part; a projection.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to this explanation, aspects of the situation are phenomenologically more salient for actors, whereas characteristics of the actor and his behavior are more salient for observers.
(2) The Nurses Evaluation Rating Scale (NERS) consists of 16 items designed to capture salient dimensions of psychopathology and nursing care requirements for psychiatric patients.
(3) Salient features are reviewed, mostly complications and malignant degeneration.
(4) The salient features of 24 cases of AIDS reported in Japan were summarized.
(5) This letter-writer argues that the salient action of mood elevation is a result of the supplemental pyridoxine (vitamin B) which ameliorates the deficiency induced by oral contraceptive use that leads to depression resulting from inhibition of synthesis of biogenic amines in the central nervous system.
(6) The cut of the skin makes two flaps suppressing the navel which is generally salient.
(7) Both Tony Blair and David Cameron saw that one salient way for an opposition leader to convince the country that he can be trusted with power is to demonstrate that he can reform his own party.
(8) Using an objectively-calibrated 2-dimensional search coil, we measured saccades in response to salient, unpredictable targets.
(9) A case of ours showing the salient features and management of a subacute cervical spinal cord abscess is also reported.
(10) A salient feature of the sequence of protein SCMKB-IIIB3 is three consecutive cysteine residues.
(11) The salient aspects of this and the three other reported cases are briefly reviewed, and the pathway of distant dissemination, resulting from venous permeation at the primary site, is emphasized.
(12) Salient clinical findings in this case include DIC associated with extensive ecchymosis and subsequent gangrene of the skin, thrombotic complications that began on the third day of life.
(13) The urethral mesenchyme showed the most salient changes.
(14) The salient elements of the methods are extraction of the residues as the free amine with benzene, rapid cleanup on an alumina column, and quantification of the free amine in methanol via SPF.
(15) The salient findings in myotonic dystrophy were ultrastructural changes of the lymphatic endothelial cells and the fibrillar elements that surround the lymphatic wall.
(16) The salient clinical features and a description of their pathogenesis are summarized.
(17) 6.44am BST My colleague Michael Safi is in Icac today and makes a salient point - O'Farrell is not suspected of acting corruptly .
(18) Salient features of these linkages are discussed, as is the relationship between the data presented here and previously published genetic and cytogenetic data.
(19) Starting with a critique of the DSM-III-R description of the antisocial personality disorder, the author reviews some salient contributions to the concept of the antisocial personality disorder derived from descriptive, sociologic, and psychoanalytic viewpoints.
(20) Several salient characteristics of the practitioners were clarified such as the process of becoming a healer, referral practices, types of disorders treated, and treatment of the traditional folk illnesses.