(a.) Exceeding; extreme; keen; -- used in a bad or a good sense; as, exquisite pain or pleasure.
(a.) Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship.
(a.) Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; nice; fastidious; as, exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment.
(n.) One who manifests an exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy.
Example Sentences:
(1) In several other cases, MR provided information beyond that obtained with CT. MR has the advantage of providing exquisite anatomic detail in multiplanar images, and it appears to be more sensitive than CT in detecting small, subacute and chronic hemorrhage within soft-tissue masses in the orbit and in detecting ischemia of the globe.
(2) An international team led by Luciano Iess at the Sapienza University in Rome inferred the existence of the ocean after taking a series of exquisite measurements made during three fly-bys between April 2010 and May 2012, which brought the Cassini spacecraft within 100km of the surface of Enceladus.
(3) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
(4) Unfortunately, the immune apparatus is exquisitely sensitive to toxic damage.
(5) Suddenly he would be picking up speed, scurrying past opponents and, in one instance, slipping the ball through Laurent Koscielny’s legs for a nutmeg that was so exquisitely executed he might have been tempted to ruffle his opponent’s hair.
(6) These include (a) the nature of the regulatory mechanisms themselves, (b) the exquisite sensitivity of the pathway to regulatory control, (c) the rapid turnover of ODC and AdoMetDC, (d) the different structural specificity of ODC and AdoMetDC regulation versus growth-dependent functions, and (e) the direct dependence of growth on sustained polyamine biosynthesis.
(7) Piano, who is conscious of having grown up in a generation that fought to preserve Italy's exquisite historical town centres from the bulldozing zeal of modernisers, is grateful that crucial battle was waged and – to a certain extent – won.
(8) Our data suggest that in glial cells, cobalamin coenzyme synthesis and function is exquisitely sensitive to short-term cobalamin deprivation.
(9) Symptoms of cold intolerance and exquisite tenderness were common to all.
(10) I've read critics for the best part of 40 years and no one has achieved this balance as exquisitely as Philip French.
(11) Those who remember the Two Davids of the 1987 SDP-Liberal Alliance will recall the exquisite agony only too well, cruelly captured by the Spitting Image puppet of little Steel perched in big Owen's pocket.
(12) The micromechanical properties of the cochlea accounting for the exquisite properties of sensitivity and frequency selectivity depend on the integrity of an active biomechanism probably based upon a motile activity of outer hair cells (OHCs).
(13) Furthermore, we argue that endothelial cells are exquisitely responsive to local immune reactivity and present evidence that specific lymphokines, including gamma-interferon, play an important role in inducing postcapillary venules to express differentiated features required for the support of lymphocyte traffic into lymphoid organs and into sites of chronic inflammation.
(14) Techniques of measurement that are exquisitely sensitive have been developed for detection of major immune recognition proteins such as antibody and complement in crevicular fluid.
(15) The central defender picked out Coutinho in space deep inside the Germans’ half and the Brazilian put Sturridge clear with an exquisite flick over the Dortmund rearguard.
(16) On the contrary, an exquisite haute couture dress - like the ones that Cristóbal Balenciaga created in his 1950s heyday - can look as perfect as a beautiful painting or sculpture.
(17) The exquisite responsiveness of CEP to corticosteroids should encourage use of a therapeutic trial when there is a strong clinical suspicion of the disorder.
(18) The membranes can be simply prepared from [3H]inositol-labelled erythrocytes and they contain a PIC activity that hydrolyses endogenous phosphoinositides and is exquisitively sensitive to guanine nucleotides.
(19) Sánchez and Özil demonstrated their class with exquisite interplay before the German crossed for Campbell, who finished emphatically before being engulfed by team-mates delighted both for the player and for a victory that augurs well for the club.
(20) Based on the study of 67 affected women during a period of 15 years, we report the clinical features and natural history of focal vulvitis, a unique syndrome characterized by severe and persistent superficial dyspareunia and the presence of one to 11 (median three) minute, exquisitely tender areas of focal inflammation or ulceration on the mucosa of the vestibule.
Staple
Definition:
(n.) A settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic.
(n.) Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.
(n.) The principal commodity of traffic in a market; a principal commodity or production of a country or district; as, wheat, maize, and cotton are great staples of the United States.
(n.) The principal constituent in anything; chief item.
(n.) Unmanufactured material; raw material.
(n.) The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple.
(n.) A loop of iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like.
(n.) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
(n.) A small pit.
(n.) A district granted to an abbey.
(a.) Pertaining to, or being market of staple for, commodities; as, a staple town.
(a.) Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled; as, a staple trade.
(a.) Fit to be sold; marketable.
(a.) Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
(v. t.) To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ten patients have undergone abdominal proctocolectomy with the formation of an ileal reservoir anastomosed onto the anal canal using a stapling device.
(2) Anastomotic devascularization has been incriminated in the development of post-operative complications (fistula, stenosis) of circular stapling.
(3) It is now recognized that dwarfism in males is frequent around the Mediterranean, where wheat is the staple of life and has been grown for 4,000 years on the same soil, thereby resulting in the depletion of zinc.
(4) I’d expect further activity later in the year to centre on fresh, own label and even staples,” he said.
(5) We suggest that emergency staple transection is an effective salvage treatment for this high-risk group.
(6) Modern stapling began with Hültl in 1908 and Petz in 1924.
(7) The polyvalent and adaptable material which we have developed (sliding splint-staple) and which we also use in thoracic traumatology (thoracic flaps), has allowed us to perform audacious corrections for deformities or wide resections for tumours since 1980.
(8) There was a higher incidence of inflammation, discomfort on removal and spreading of the healing scar associated with staples.
(9) A technique for facilitating stapled anastomosis in end to end esophagojejunostomy is described.
(10) The trocar mounted on the main stem of the circular stapler allows the stem of the main device to be brought out through the distal staple line.
(11) The extraperitoneal site of the anastomosis after rectal anterior resection with stapled anastomosis and surgery for cancer showed a statistically significant predisposition to anastomotic dehiscence.
(12) Where the standard staple remover is not immediately available, an artery forceps, correctly applied, is just as quick.
(13) Postoperatively, the anastomosis performed by a stapling instrument that was larger and more elastic than the one sutured by hand.
(14) In 73 patients anastomosis was performed by double stapling; in 37 cases the EEA stapler was used.
(15) We report our 7-yr experience with staple transection of the esophagus in this patient group.
(16) We recommend the use of the stapling device in excision of Zenker's diverticulum.
(17) Patients were randomized to have their skin closed with either continuous subcuticular non-absorbable polypropylene 'prolene' suture (33 patients) or metal skin staples (Autosuture 'Premium' or Davis and Geck 'Oppose'; 33 patients).
(18) Urinary leakage in 3 patients with a right colonic reservoir (2 with an intussuscepted ileal nipple valve and 1 with a plicated ileal segment as a continence mechanism) was managed with tapered narrowing of the nipple valve and the ileocecal valve, respectively, using stapling techniques.
(19) The warming is expected to continue without undue problems for 30 years but beyond 2050 the effects could be dramatic with staple crops hit.
(20) Macroscopic examination showed no major inflammatory adhesions around the staples.