(a.) Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark.
Example Sentences:
(1) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
(2) The usefulness of the proposed method is obvious in cases where the composition of a precipitate on LM scale is to be compared with the LM appearance of the surrounding tissue.
(3) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
(4) This difference becomes more obvious in women on HRT with less than three children compared to a similar group not taking HRT.
(5) Thus, it is obvious that new measures will have to be taken if lives are to be saved in future events of this nature.
(6) Some women have clinically obvious cervical incompetence and may benefit from a cerclage operation, but criteria for early diagnosis are not universally agreed upon.
(7) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.
(8) Obviously it’s good to have all voices on the field.
(9) "This will obviously be a sensitive topic for the US administration, but partners in the transatlantic alliance must be clear on common rules of engagement in times of conflict if we are to retain any moral standing in the world," Verhofstadt said.
(10) Obvious restitution of the thymic medulla was evident about 14 days after withdrawal of FK506.
(11) The content and design of the treatment obviously had a positive influence on patient satisfaction.
(12) Symmetrical cases (the so-called siamese twins) have an obvious predominance (92.3%).
(13) He said: "While the strike on 30 November will obviously cause disruption, the figures suggested by ministers are fantasy economics.
(14) Uterine lavage affords the potential for non-invasive human blastocyst recovery, with obvious potential for preimplantation genetic diagnosis.
(15) Gallium-67 imaging is useful in the management of patients with malignant lymphoma, despite its obvious limitations.
(16) Future increasing segments of females addicted to tobacco smoking will obviously markedly influence sex difference in morbidity.
(17) Successful treatment of hypertriglyceridemic states obviously normalizes the changed composition of the lipoprotein fractions and in consequence effects also the atherogenicity.
(18) The thigh and hip manifestations can obscure the primary intra-abdominal process either due to the obvious emphysema or to the obtunded abdominal signs secondary to associated neuropathy.
(19) He praised the obvious disgust of local people in parts of south and west Manchester, where gang problems have been concentrated.
(20) The most obvious observation was a higher early mortality.
Palpable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form.
(1) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
(2) The diagnosis of an arterial injury may be readily apparent, but the excellent upper-extremity collateral circulation may create palpable distal pulses despite a significant proximal arterial injury.
(3) Patients were grouped as +RSC if they developed a sustained spontaneous palpable pulse or blood pressure and as -RSC if they did not develop a pulse or blood pressure.
(4) The lesion presented as a discrete, palpable mass that led to orchiectomy.
(5) The criteria selected by a classification tree method were similar: palpable purpura, age less than or equal to 20 years at disease onset, biopsy showing granulocytes around arterioles or venules, and gastrointestinal bleeding.
(6) A palpable, purpuric, nonpruritic eruption occurred in a 64-year-old man nine days after he received intravenous streptokinase therapy, which was successful in treating acute myocardial infarction.
(7) Abdominal pain was the most common presenting symptom and a pelvic mass was palpable in all patients.
(8) The tumor was palpable on physical examination, but not apparent on plain radiographs.
(9) Dietary quercetin inhibited both the incidence and the number of palpable rat mammary tumors; rats fed on 2% quercetin had 25% less incidence of mammary cancer, while the average number of mammary tumors per rat was reduced by 39% at 20 wk post-DMBA administration compared to animals on a control diet.
(10) For some patients with T3 or V+ tumors and palpably normal retroperitoneal nodes, an extended nodal dissection may resect microscopically involved nodes and result in an improved survival rate.
(11) Histologically confirmed results were obtained from 496 palpable findings.
(12) A nodal mass may be palpable and computed tomography (CT) is frequently requested in order to differentiate recurrent tumour from the longer term effects of surgery and radiotherapy.
(13) When palpable tumors developed in all animals, therapy was initiated.
(14) After complete, high quality x-ray mammography, a palpable mass or nonpalpable mammographic abnormality may remain indeterminate in etiology, and ultrasound may be useful as an adjunctive diagnostic modality.
(15) Activity of the cytosol enzyme esterifying cholesterol at pH 6.5 was also enhanced during the active growth of Zajdela hepatoma and during the period of chemical carcinogenesis characterized by the appearance of first palpable subcutaneous tumors.
(16) But what was, perhaps, even more fun than a win in the offing was that the desperation of opponents of same-sex marriage leading up to today’s argument in Obergefell v Hodges was palpable.
(17) The hybrid with the strongest NK effect (ACBF1) was the least resistant to YAC growth (27% palpable tumors), and the hybrid with the weakest NK effect (ALF1) was the most resistant to YAC growth (7.2% palpable tumors).
(18) The two patients were women, one a 45-year-old who consulted for pain, epigastric discomfort and melenas, and the other a 76-year-old who consulted for paraneoplastic syndrome and a palpable mass in the right lower quadrant.
(19) A review of the literature has shown that this is the largest such tumor so far described, and the first time a mass was palpable on abdominal examination.
(20) Caring for persons with AIDS calls upon a range of physical, psychological, social, and spiritual interventions that, in the absence of a cure, can make a palpable difference for patients.