What's the difference between meticulous and scrupulous?

Meticulous


Definition:

  • (a.) Timid; fearful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The catheter must be meticulously fixed to the skin to avoid its movement.
  • (2) Diagnosis and identification of the site of the leak is often inaccurate, even with meticulous care given to placing and removing the nasal pledgets.
  • (3) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
  • (4) For the management and prevention of the recurrent ascending infections long-term urinary disinfection and meticulous toilet of the external meatus are recommended.
  • (5) This higher-than-expected rate of positive cultures was probably related to the meticulous bacteriologic techniques used.
  • (6) Also, when using these drugs, one must often follow a meticulously graduated dosage regimen, while carefully monitoring the patient for toxic and potentially lethal side effects.
  • (7) Unlike posterior tympanoplasty, this technique makes it possible to meticulously remove the osteitic bone invariably found in the facial recess when there is infection of the retraction pocket.
  • (8) Recognize the high-risk patient and examine the oral cavity meticulously.
  • (9) Meticulous histologic examination of the resected specimens revealed no residual cancer cells.
  • (10) The only appropriate treatment of congenital facial and cervical C and F is surgery providing that the resection is meticulous with complete resection of the fistula in order to avoid relapse.
  • (11) Recurrences cannot always be avoided but the frequency can be reduced by meticulous removal of all diseased and normal connective tissue in this area.
  • (12) Specialist learning disability liaison nurse Jainab Desai is making meticulous checks of the complex arrangements to receive a tricky patient with learning disabilities, with staff of the day surgery unit at Royal Bolton hospital.
  • (13) All the patients underwent abdominal exploration, and CAGB was confirmed by the meticulous dissection of the entire extrahepatic biliary tree and the operative cholangiography.
  • (14) A meticulous review of the literature and several personal surgical cases confirms the view that only those diverticula causing evident symptoms or complications should be treated.
  • (15) The second patient was a 2-year-old female with anterior mediastinal and paratracheal masses and severe respiratory compromise, who was operated under general inhalation anesthesia and spontaneous breathing for biopsy of supraclavicular lymphadenopathy, after a meticulous preanesthetic evaluation.
  • (16) Meticulous handling of the graft (using a Goeller trephine and Tenon's traction sutures), filleting Tenon's capsule and avoiding cautery of the graft bed may minimize graft necrosis and atrophy.
  • (17) Their incidence could be reduced by more meticulous patient care.
  • (18) Meticulous attention to the cerebrospinal fluid draining system is needed in patients with a fistula to avoid the development of this unusual complication.
  • (19) It appears that early aggressive operation, and meticulous postoperative care, have contributed to the higher survival rate in recent years.
  • (20) The success of the modified technique depends upon meticulous methodology.

Scrupulous


Definition:

  • (a.) Full ofscrupules; inclined to scruple; nicely doubtful; hesitating to determine or to act, from a fear of offending or of doing wrong.
  • (a.) Careful; cautious; exact; nice; as, scrupulous abstinence from labor; scrupulous performance of duties.
  • (a.) Given to making objections; captious.
  • (a.) Liable to be doubted; doubtful; nice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Life-threatening or lethal toxicity was encountered when these phenomena were not scrupulously observed.
  • (2) Invariably in these films the visuals are scrupulously authentic, but the "message" is very much in line with the values of their human creators.
  • (3) A plea is made for scrupulous care to avoid starch powder contamination of the operative field.
  • (4) And yet, according to his widow Sheila Ravenscroft, this photograph documents the first stage in a complicated and scrupulous filing system that Peel had maintained for his record collection since 1969.
  • (5) He is always scrupulous to keep his views to himself and enjoys the respect of politicians of all stripes, who recognise the skills of a top operator.
  • (6) Bernie Sanders has scrupulously avoided throwing punches at political rivals during a career that has lasted close to half a century .
  • (7) Telling an institution to “keep its mouth shut” is, quite simply, a threat – entirely different from expressing the hope that the media might want to temper its criticism and scrupulously check its facts.
  • (8) However, he added: “We are going to be scrupulous in investigating cases where we are concerned about the impartiality and accountability that is taking place.” Earlier this week, Obama hosted a White House summit to deal with the fallout from the unrest in Ferguson and concerns about police brutality and stereotyping that the president said have resonated in communities across the country.
  • (9) Infection is a potential risk in diabetic men using intracavernosal injection therapy and those offered it should be informed of the importance of a scrupulous sterile technique and the need to seek urgent medical help for decompression if an erection persists for more than 4-6 h.
  • (10) Of course, even though we brights will scrupulously insist that our word is a noun, if it catches on it is likely to follow gay and eventually re-emerge as a new adjective.
  • (11) This favourable series demonstrates that nowadays with the improved technology and with a scrupulous pharmacological protocol transluminal coronary angioplasty can be performed with a low incidence of complications and excellent results, further assessing its high potential in the treatment of ischemic coronary artery disease.
  • (12) Even with the most scrupulous IUD insertion technics, uterine perforation is a recognized complication.
  • (13) The live footage on the sports channel ESPN was scrupulously presented in line with post-Reithian attitudes to the depiction of private crisis: as soon as it became apparent that Muamba was in extremis, the camera pulled back to a long, high angle, which showed only a distant huddle.
  • (14) These findings indicate the importance of scrupulous hand washing before and after handling each infant and of enforcement of other basic nursery techniques.
  • (15) One critic, for example, in a very patient, and indeed in every respect but one a positively scrupulous, reading of one of Eliot's anti-semitic poems, "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar," glancingly commented, "the question whether [it is] anti-semitic is obviously not a pressing one".
  • (16) From analysis of the results of scrupulous examination of 66 patients with pathological shadows up to 3 cm in diameter found in the lungs during X-ray examination the authors established that peripheral carcinoma of the lung accounts for 65.2% of all asymptomatic accidentally revealed structures in the lungs.
  • (17) In the absence of added Mg2+ untreated tRNA was acylated in the presence of spermine, but tRNA from which Mg2+ had been scrupulously removed was not.
  • (18) Each stone is then carefully cleaned by hand and scrupulously recorded before being put into storage.
  • (19) The results of our study indicate that a more scrupulous enforcement of legislative measures concerning anti-tetanus vaccination is recommended.
  • (20) Recommended biography Wodehouse: A Life by Robert McCrum (2004) is a masterly study of Wodehouse's achievement, and includes a scrupulous and clear-eyed examination of the wartime scandal which dispenses with much of the accumulated hyperbole.