(a.) Not palpable; that cannot be felt; extremely fine, so that no grit can be perceived by touch.
(a.) Not material; intangible; incorporeal.
(a.) Not apprehensible, or readily apprehensible, by the mind; unreal; as, impalpable distinctions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Identification and localization of impalpable liver metastases is therefore possible using intraoperative ultrasonography.
(2) The positive predictive values (number of cancers detected divided by the number of biopsies recommended) were not significantly different when comparing biopsies indicated for palpable, clinically detected (34%) vs impalpable, mammographically detected (31%) abnormalities (p = .669).
(3) Increasing awareness of the value of mammography by both physicians and the public has resulted in women presenting more commonly with impalpable breast lesions.
(4) Stereotactic fine needle aspiration biopsy (SFNB) was carried out on 404 mammographically detected impalpable breast lesions from 389 women between October 1988 and January 1990.
(5) A reconsideration of the Würzburg controversy, adding closely related altered state phenomena to the transitional series between "impalpable awareness" and specific imagery, suggests that the normally masked processes underlying the "felt meaning" or "insight" state are most directly exteriorized as what Klüver termed "complex" or geometric-dynamic synaesthesias.
(6) Over a period of four years (September 1986 to September 1990), 32 impalpable testes were found in 24 cryptorchid boys at Sainte-Justine Hospital, Montreal.
(7) The review of 20 published cases reporting the appearance of impalpable primary tumours reveals that in the great majority of cases the echostructure is hypoechoic and therefore does not present any histological specificity, and that these tumours tend to be essentially seminomas or Leydig cell tumours.
(8) A simple method is described to indicate the abnormal area in breast biopsy specimens excised following mammographic localization of impalpable lesions.
(9) Fifteen cancers were impalpable lesions which were detected by mammography alone.
(10) For all 120 patients, US revealed clinically impalpable lesions in an average of 10.8% of cases for the cervicosupraclavicular region, 17.9% for the axillary region, and 4.1% for the inguinal region.
(11) In approximately two-thirds of infants the lesion was impalpable and in 2 cases involution had occurred prenatally.
(12) We describe the technique of laparoscopy when seeking to locate an impalpable testis.
(13) The retained and impalpable testes were in superficial positions in most cases.
(14) The authors relate their experience about twenty-one cases of impalpable lesions of the breast come to their observation during the years 84-88.
(15) Impalpable testes constitute approximately 20% of most series of undescended testes.
(16) Melanomas have been divided into three groups after clinical assessment--impalpable, palpable but not nodular, and overtly nodular--and excised with 1, 2 and 3-5 cm margins respectively.
(17) Thirty-six patients (39 testes), whose testes remained impalpable even under anaesthesia, underwent laparoscopy.
(18) The assay of urinary LH and FSH in first morning void urine can be used for the differential diagnosis between anorchism and bilateral cryptorchidism with impalpable testes.
(19) In 90 boys the testis was impalpable, and exploration was performed using a muscle-splitting preperitoneal approach.
(20) Impalpable cholesterol-treated, 5 of 10 E+P-treated, and 3 of 6 E+DCA-treated hypophysectomized animals.
Insubstantial
Definition:
(a.) Unsubstantial; not real or strong.
Example Sentences:
(1) Variation in risk in association with sugar and starch intake was also insubstantial, while for fiber, there was a nonuniform reduction in risk at the three uppermost fifths of intake.
(2) Alistair Darling's announcement of a pay freeze for top public servants was today described as cynical and insubstantial by the Conservative leader, David Cameron .
(3) He also held a permit to work as a security guard, which he did at a courthouse in Port St Lucie, Florida, even though he was interviewed three times by the FBI in 2013 and 2014 following separate reports of extremist behavior and connections to terrorism that were in the end deemed insubstantial.
(4) Carbamazepine caused statistically significant, but clinically insubstantial, reductions in serum sodium and calcium, but not in the other electrolytes measured.
(5) Carbamazepine was found to cause statistically significant, but clinically insubstantial, decreases in white blood cell indexes.
(6) "I think it is slightly cynical in its timing; it is rather insubstantial in its content and it is not part of an overall approach," Cameron said on GMTV.
(7) The teachers in this study underestimated the extent to which their students could comprehend independently, often based on insubstantial evidence.
(8) This is rare, but has been observed in very similar form in association with this disorder in a not insubstantial proportion of cases.
(9) Last week Sheridan's wife Gail, also 46, was cleared of also committing perjury at the 2006 libel trial after the prosecution decided the case against her was too weak and insubstantial.
(10) Many doctors believe that the discomfort felt during such procedures is insubstantial.
(11) He argues that the hope that AGI is possible rests on a similarly insubstantial metaphor, namely that the mind is "essentially" a computer program.
(12) Since less than 1% of the intracellular 23Na has been estimated to be immobilized, fractional immobilization of intracellular 39K is also likely to be insubstantial.
(13) The show is about her “trying to be an adult”, she says (she’s 28), and it flits insubstantially from a duff audience participation game called “Which Disney princess are you?”, via a riff about still getting presents from Santa, to a joke about her anxiety that her friends are all getting married.
(14) Some user charges may be justified, especially if these revenues result insubstantial improvements in the quality and availability of services.
(15) Paget's disease has been ascribed several times to specimens of archeological bone but, in the absence of microscopic examination, the evidence remains insubstantial.
(16) Thus, the claim of a causal relationship between oral contraceptive steroids and thromboembolism does not appear to be firmly founded, and the belief that predisposing factors increase the risk to contraceptive users is equally insubstantial.
(17) The plastic body felt "insubstantial" and the mono speaker on the back "only fair".
(18) The error in pulse oximetry caused by the presence of carboxyhemoglobin is insubstantial, but methemoglobin gives either an understimation or an overestimation at high or low oxygen saturation, respectively, the turning point being near 70% saturation.
(19) I love trees, but the case for forest offsets still strikes me as insubstantial and, ultimately, as ungraspable as air.
(20) Variation in risk of BPED across levels defined in terms of daily total alcohol intake, and in terms of daily alcohol intake from individual beverages, was mostly insubstantial and not dose-dependent.