(a.) Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision.
(a.) Knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing without deduction or reasoning.
(a.) Received. reached, obtained, or perceived, by intuition; as, intuitive judgment or knowledge; -- opposed to deductive.
Example Sentences:
(1) The proposition put forward in this paper is that standards of nursing practice can only be assured if the profession is able to find ways of responding to the intuitions and gut reactions of its practitioners.
(2) …" Platt: "Everything was intuitive, the way I met and hit the ball and then dropping to my knees.
(3) Intuitively, weight lost should be determined by the difference between the total energy consumed and the total energy expended.
(4) In a series of analyses guided by intuitive hypotheses, the Smith and Ellsworth theoretical approach, and a relatively unconstrained, open-ended exploration of the data, the situations were found to vary with respect to the emotions of pride, jealousy or envy, pride in the other, boredom, and happiness.
(5) What's more, she said several times, her intuition told her she was on the right path.
(6) Scale items that differed from the raters' intuition tended to be omitted more than others.
(7) In the process, however, we forgot about Huxley's intuition.
(8) The analysis of the relation of time and speed led Piaget to conclude that the time-speed confusion characterizing the intuitive stage undergoes development.
(9) Humanism is centred upon the agency of human individuality and subjective intuition, rather than on received ideas and authority.
(10) Essential traits of this personality are an independent mind capable of liberating itself from dogmatic tenets universally accepted by the scientific community; the capacity and courage to look at things from a new angle; powers of combination, intuition and imagination; feu sacré and perseverance--in short, intellectual as well as moral qualities.
(11) The doubts over what some see as Miliband's lack of presentational skills and "wonkiness" have, in part, been stilled by his flashes of courage and intuitive accord with the public mood – on Libor, on predatory capitalism, on Murdoch.
(12) A phenomenological approach permits to confirm the intuition of language in showing that the living experience of anguish is different from the one of anxiety.
(13) This controversy should be resolved in the light of fact, not intuition.
(14) The idea that huge, intractable social issues such as sexism and racism could be affected in such simple ways had a powerful intuitive appeal, and hinted at the possibility of equally simple, elegant solutions.
(15) It prevents him from attending to the slight promptings of his subconscious, and when these emotions and intuitions are not amplified by being brought into focus, he loses a sense of himself.
(16) Then it happened again … and again … and then we realised it was worldwide and curiously, and counter-intuitively, we calmed down.
(17) On intuitive grounds, many have felt that Hamilton's Rule, br greater than c, should describe the evolution of reciprocal altruism and "green beard" genes.
(18) If this ability has been considered only as an artful and intuitive process neither subjected to theoretical analysis nor to be captured in a formal quantitative model, now things have changed to such an extent that it becomes broadly shared that a science of medical decision making can be reasonably founded and this threefold: 1) Upon a formulated logic, 2) The probability theory, and 3) A value theory.
(19) (3) Intuitive judgments can be categorized by several, distinctive propositional beliefs from which the judgments are apparently derived.
(20) Decisions concerning the indications for diagnostic and therapeutic interventions must not be made by intuition but by professionally balancing the influencing factors such as psycho-social variables or marked deficits in mental, motor or sensory areas of the child's development.
Visceral
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the viscera; splanchnic.
(a.) Fig.: Having deep sensibility.
Example Sentences:
(1) Additionally, several small vessels (rami pleurales pulmonales) originated from the esophageal branch (ramus esophagea) of the bronchoesophageal artery, traversed the pulmonary ligaments, and supplied the visceral pleura.
(2) However, it had no significant effect on grip strength, digital contractures, respiratory function or visceral involvement.
(3) Both genes are expressed in the fetal liver, gut, and visceral endoderm of the yolk sac and are repressed shortly after birth in the liver and gut.
(4) The prognosis of vascular amyloidosis seems to be more favourable than that of the classical visceral types.
(5) The amount of spinal visceral afferences is relatively small (only 1.5-2.5% of all somatic spinal afferences).
(6) Staging classifications are being refined to reflect increasing knowledge of important prognostic indicators, e.g., absence or presence of lymph node involvement, pattern of lymph node involvement, and absence or presence of visceral disease.
(7) Cadmium, anti-visceral yolk sac antibody (AVYS) and trypan blue all inhibited pinocytosis in a concentration-dependent fashion when added to the culture medium, although at low concentrations trypan blue was slightly stimulatory.
(8) Studying the bronchial tree on the chest x-ray it is possible to indicate the visceral situs with asplenia or with polysplenia.
(9) Khera (1973, 1975, 1977) reported that administration of ETU to pregnant rats could induce anomalies in the visceral organs and the central nervous system of fetuses in food toxicology.
(10) Stimulation using implanted electrodes in conscious rats, within the hypothalamic and midbrain areas described above, elicited typical 'flight' and 'escape' behaviour: thus, the localized regions from which the visceral alerting response is elicited contain neurones or nerve fibres integrating the whole defence-alerting response in the rat, as in other species.
(11) Discriminant analysis of eleven currently utilized blood markers of the phlogistic reaction and of the nutritional status has afforded the selection of the two most reliable acute-phase reactants (orosomucoid and C-reactive protein) and visceral proteins (albumin and prealbumin).
(12) Seventy-seven patients with metastases confined to skeleton and 73 patients bearing visceral-only disease were identified.
(13) It has become clear that a number of neuropeptides are found in sensory nerves, some of which have been identified in visceral afferents.
(14) Specificity of the Dot-enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Dot-ELISA) for visceral leishmaniasis was significantly improved through the use of enzyme-conjugated antisera specific for IgG heavy chains.
(15) To our knowledge, this is the second report of myelitis in the course of visceral larva migrans.
(16) Cryosurgery and large-size excision are therapeutic steps of good palliative effectiveness in the treatment of skinmetastasised melanoblastoma, provided that no visceral metastasation has taken place.
(17) The autonomous-visceral pathology observed in cases of cervical injuries can be attributed to the direct effect of the trauma upon the segmental innervation appratus of the heart, diaphragm, thorax.
(18) The monkey was dissected one year after inoculation, no evidence of visceral involvement was noted.
(19) Using alkaline phosphatase as a marker for germ cells, it was shown that these cells are absent in the 12-day-old visceral yolk sac examined before and after organ culture.
(20) Visceral involvement is common, may follow or precede the cutaneous involvement and rarely, may be the only manifestation of the disease.