(a.) Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.
Example Sentences:
(1) The successful treatment of the painful neuroma remains an elusive surgical goal.
(2) Diagnostic difficulties were encountered due to the rarity of such infections and elusive identification of the organism with routine laboratory procedures.
(3) Diagnosis with light microscopy can be elusive; electron microscopic and immunohistochemical evaluation are necessary to confirm the pathological condition.
(4) But an agreement looks elusive, and it appears that another election will be held soon.
(5) Effectiveness and safety of other molecules remain elusive.
(6) Thus, the identity of the suppressive factor(s) in cultured I-CB cell supernatants remains elusive.
(7) The quality of family life is as elusive a concept as is quality of life for the individual.
(8) In the United States, early diagnosis and cure of gastric carcinoma remain elusive.
(9) Despite their functional prominence, the structural requirements of fully functional GABAA-receptors are still elusive.
(10) The explanation for this dramatic loss of GSH has been investigated by many laboratories but the solution has been elusive.
(11) While the etiology and pathogenesis of such lesions remain elusive, physicians performing hair transplantations should be aware of this potential sequela.
(12) Les Cafeteras began the second half in similarly determined mode and the elusive Rincón sent a shot dipping fractionally over the bar from distance.
(13) Never before has so much been learned about the molecular biology of a virus in such a short time since its discovery and yet effective strategies for fighting the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS remain elusive.
(14) With her first book, Girl Online, due out in November and an audience estimated to be 26 times that of the circulation of British Vogue, Zoella is a key example of what the advertising world call a “crowdsourced people’s champion” – one who earns hundreds of thousands of pounds a year and is paid by brands such as Unilever to connect with the ever-elusive 18-30 demographic.
(15) We retrospectively reviewed the MR examinations of five patients with surgically proved cervical epidural abscess in order to assist in the diagnosis of this clinically elusive disorder.
(16) Steroid hormone receptors are elusive, labile regulatory proteins which communicate the action of the sex hormones, estrogens and progestins, in target organs such as the breast and uterus.
(17) However, the principles of optimal mAb selection remain elusive, as their efficacy in vivo does not always correlate with their characteristics in vitro.
(18) Bacterial endocarditis is an elusive disease that challenges clinicians' diagnostic capabilities.
(19) The chronic inflammatory diseases in humans have been intensively investigated, however the immune mechanisms underlying diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), inflammatory bowel disease, and periodontal disease (PD) remain elusive.
(20) Three years later, the proud owner of a PG diploma in housing studies and member of the Chartered Institute of Housing, I was offered the opportunity to complete a further year's study and obtain that elusive degree.
Knotty
Definition:
(superl.) Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.
(superl.) Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.
(superl.) Difficult; intricate; perplexed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Andrew Romano, Newsweek How would these eloquent know-it-alls – these brainiacs bent on "speaking truth to stupid" – untangle the knotty threads of information that make actual breaking news so difficult to sort out?
(2) It originally quoted Kathryn Bigelow as saying "naughty subjects" rather than "knotty subjects"
(3) For example, 1 group, "knotty amacrine cells," has small cell bodies and a profusion of small, varicose, intertwined processes that span up to 30 microns and are essentially monostratified, but each of the 3 types ends in different strata.
(4) He has friendly, wide-set eyes, a burst of knotty dreadlocks and a gnarled scar just below his jaw, from when he fell from a low wire as a child and impaled himself on the protruding end of a metal coil.
(5) She was a sane voice that could be relied upon to help them make sense of the knotty complications of their personal, sexual lives.
(6) Eight cases were reported in order to elucidate the important role of electron microscopy (EM) played in diagnosis of knotty tumors.
(7) What do you think they can buy for that?” Kasich also raised the other knotty problem that is causing divisions within the Republican party: preexisting conditions.
(8) The A1 cells are small axonless neurons with knotty and dense dendritic trees.
(9) This is potentially a knotty problem, but a few points seem to suggest that Wales's concerns are overdone.
(10) Bloomberg Associates, as he is calling his private consultancy, will be what the New York Times has called an “urban SWAT team” that will be called in by struggling cities to help solve their knotty problems absolutely free of charge.
(11) Updated at 9.37pm BST 8.47pm BST A novel Peace Prize idea This is interesting - European leaders have apparently been considering the knotty problem of who should pick up the Nobel Peace Prize in December.
(12) There is a knotty ethical problem underlying such arguments.
(13) Subjects ranged from the English civil war in The Staffordshire Rebels (1965) and local railways in The Knotty (1966) to the audience's second world war memories in Hands Up!
(14) This knotty and discomforting genealogy that binds Englishness to empire and slavery and their fractious legacies of racism and inequality seems to be too thought-provoking for Gove's deeply conservative vision of English literature.
(15) But it would help his cause, the lawyer argued, by addressing several of the knotty issues related to his future.
(16) Every time a party has looked at this problem, it’s been too knotty to unpick and it has given up.
(17) What distinguishes this recession from those we have seen before is one particularly knotty fact: unemployment has increased a good deal more than employment has fallen.
(18) Only a better understanding of their pathogenesis, and of how the glomerulus normally retains plasma protein, will solve this knotty problem.
(19) The prospect of Erdoğan unbound suggests a number of other knotty problems may become more intractable.
(20) Canary Wharf – modernist, faceless, towering – houses the mighty investment banks; the City – quirky, crowded, knotty, historic – has the brokers, insurers and ancillary services; Mayfair – discreet, stylish, cosmopolitan – is home to the hedge funds and private equity companies.