What's the difference between discernible and salient?

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.

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.