(n.) The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; sagacity; insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment.
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.
Myopia
Definition:
(n.) Nearsightedness; shortsightedness; a condition of the eye in which the rays from distant object are brought to a focus before they reach the retina, and hence form an indistinct image; while the rays from very near objects are normally converged so as to produce a distinct image. It is corrected by the use of a concave lens.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the group of high myopia (over 20 D), the mean correction was 13.4 D. In the group with refraction between 0 and 6 D, 88% of the eyes treated had attained a correction between -1 and +1 D 3 months postoperatively.
(2) The third patient was using an extended-wear soft contact lens for correction of residual myopia.
(3) The yield of such studies may be high for an understanding of such diseases as myopia, retinal detachment, and keratoconus.
(4) Myopia ranged from -1.0 D to -9.0 D. Forty-two eyes (53%) achieved uncorrected visual acuity (VA) of 1.0 or better and 73 eyes (92%) better than 0.5.
(5) A 69-year-old patient with high myopia was treated with retrobulbar steroid injections.
(6) We have reported the development of 1.6 diopters of myopia in a group of patients exposed to reptitive oxygen breathing at two atmospheres absolute pressure.
(7) The X-chromosomal form is frequently associated with myopia.
(8) The progress of 108 children who were identified by the vision screening programme in school as having defective vision (excluding those with puberty onset myopia) was reviewed.
(9) Extraordinarily wide angles were observed in all cases and myopia was a common refractive error.
(10) The Houston Myopia Control Study is a 3-year randomized clinical trial in which each of 213 myopic children was placed in either a single vision (standard treatment) group, a +1.00 D add treatment group, or a +2.00 D add treatment group, on the basis of a randomized procedure.
(11) The term "instrument myopia" means an accommodative effort caused by the view into the microscope.
(12) During the first month the mean myopia gradually increased to 0.12 D more myopia and increased linearly to 0.50 D more myopia at 3 months.
(13) Expansion was not related to laser wavelength, patient age, SRNV size, or degree of myopia.
(14) Young adulthood myopia progression also appeared to be accompanied by a slight tendency toward a with-the-rule astigmatic shift.
(15) This association is comparable with subretinal neovascularization in high myopia, angioid streaks, choroiditis and choroidal ruptures.
(16) After prophylactic scleroplasty for high complicated myopia the patient developed bilateral detachment of the retina.
(17) The implications of these findings are discussed with regard to both current models of accommodation-vergence interaction and the etiology of late-onset myopia.
(18) To improve scleroplasty efficacy in children at a high risk of postoperative progress of myopia the authors have developed a new surgical method involving increase of the transplant size and its preoperative treatment with a foamy composition intended for filling the body cavities.
(19) In the present study, close ophthalmologic examinations were performed on 11 patients with FCMD, and we found myopia, weakness of the orbicularis oculi, congenital nystagmus, cortical blindness, optic atrophy, chorioretinal degeneration, etc.
(20) If the high myopias and cone dysfunction are considered to be parts of the same syndrome, the heredity could be x-chromosomal recessive or autosomal recessive.