(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.
Perceive
Definition:
(v. t.) To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character, or identity of, by means of the senses; to see, hear, or feel; as, to perceive a distant ship; to perceive a discord.
(v. t.) To take intellectual cognizance of; to apprehend by the mind; to be convinced of by direct intuition; to note; to remark; to discern; to see; to understand.
(v. t.) To be affected of influented by.
Example Sentences:
(1) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(2) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(3) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
(4) In some experiments heart rate and minute ventilation (central vactors) appear to be the dominant cues for rated perceived exertion, while in others, local factors such as blood lactate concentration and muscular discomfort seem to be the prominent cues.
(5) Perceived quality of life interviews with the clients were also conducted at both times.
(6) The glomerular capillary is part of the arterial system and is better perceived as a "hemiarteriole."
(7) Relative to the perceived severity of their asthma, both Maoris and Pacific Islanders lost more time from work or school and used hospital services more than European asthmatics using A & E. The increased use of A & E by Maori and Pacific Island asthmatics seemed not attributable to the intrinsic severity of their asthma and was better explained by ethnic, socioeconomic and sociocultural factors.
(8) Most survivors reported a range of problems that they attributed to having had cancer: 35%, proven or perceived infertility; 24%, sexual problems; 31%, health and life insurance problems; 26%, a negative socioeconomic effect; and 51%, conditioned nausea, associated with visual or olfactory reminders of chemotherapy.
(9) and (4) Compared to the instruction provided by instructors from other medical and academic disciplines, do paediatric residents perceive differences in the teaching efficacy and clinical relevance of instruction provided by paediatricians?
(10) Following each stimulus, the subject had to press a button for RT and then report the digit perceived.
(11) Discussion deals with the plurality, specificity, variability, perceived necessity, sufficiency, international utility and career significance of British postgraduate qualifications.
(12) All variables except perceived personal risk were found to be significantly related to the intention to provide medical care although knowledge showed the weakest relationship (Odds Ratio = 2.14).
(13) The policy was effective in reducing perceived environmental tobacco smoke exposure in work areas where smoking was banned but not in nonwork areas where smoking was allowed in designated areas.
(14) Black males with low intentions to use condoms reported significantly more negative attitudes about the use of condoms (eg, using condoms is disgusting) and reacted with more intense anger when their partners asked about previous sexual contacts, when a partner refused sex without a condom, or when they perceived condoms as interfering with foreplay and sexual pleasure.
(15) This demonstrates a considerable range in surgeons' attitudes to day surgery despite its formal endorsement by professional bodies, and identifies what are perceived as the organizational and clinical barriers to its wider introduction.
(16) Lazarus' phenomenological theory of stress and coping provided the basis for this descriptive study of perceived threats after myocardial infarction (MI).
(17) The majority of them were able to perceive a connection between their worsened skin condition and the acute psychosocial constellation during their brief stay at home.
(18) To test the preventive behavior model, the impact of perceived barriers and benefits and health value orientations on two health care activities (smoking and exercise) was examined.
(19) Group psychotherapy is a treatment modality used to assist patients in learning how they are perceived, what interactions and communication styles are effective, and which behaviors are acceptable.
(20) Furthermore, changes between merely perceived identical parts can result in apparent depth.