(a.) Characterized by nicety of discrimination; discerning; delicate; refined; subtle.
(a.) Sly; artful; cunning; crafty; subtle; as, a subtile person; a subtile adversary; a subtile scheme.
Example Sentences:
(1) After operative methods have been subtilized and radicalized only preventive medical examinations and early public instruction may improve the prognosis of the patients concerned.
(2) Accurate preoperative evaluation and subtile operative technique are imperative, however.
(3) More subtile effects of milk processing on milk digestibility and stomach emptying are mentioned.
(4) It was possible histologically to follow the most subtile alterations on the membranes from the very beginning of the chronic bronchitis.
(5) The present paper suggests the autometallographic demonstration of intralysosomal silver as a sensitive tool for the detection of subtile toxic effects in cell cultures, the method is suggested to primarily detect lysosomal damage.
(6) Fatty acids damage the membrane integrity in such a way that the subtile equilibrium between the factors is disturbed.
(7) The removal of the angioma requires the most subtile preparation.
(8) A microscopical examination of the Leptothrix-filaments revealed a subtile segmentation and sporulation.
(9) In the individual case, it is necessary to identify the major causes by employing subtile investigative measures, in order to be able to plan rational treatment.
(10) Inhibited subtilisin (Subtilism Carlsberg; Subtilopeptidase A) is unfolded in the presence of 7 M guanidine hydrochloride.
(11) There was concluded firstly that the possibility of metastases in the pelvic lymph nodes is dependent from the size of the primary tumor and secondly that before treatment a subtile diagnostic procedure secures that only good cases of cervical cancer FIGO stage I b are operated on by radical vaginal hysterectomy (Schauta-Amreich).
(12) The stereological investigations revealed a subtile reaction of the medial stapled tibial plate in a total of 37 domestic pigs (10 weeks old) during the postoperative follow-up (up to 17 weeks).
(13) Despite subtile changes of glucose, glucagon and to a lesser degree insulin levels which would be suggestive of insulin resistance, the data obtained from skeletal muscle argue against peripheral insulin resistance in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
(14) For the clarification of pathogenesis and clinical relevance of decreases of the triiodothyronine (T3) level in patients with chronic inflammatory rheumatism in a group of 63 patients with clinically, paraclinically and roentgenologically diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis (59 times) and with SLE (4 times), respectively, parallel were determined parameters of the thyroid gland function and of the rheumatic activity as well as a subtile drug anamnesis for the medication of antirheumatic drugs was established.
(15) -- It has been refered to the importance of the exact conisation technique and subtile histotechnical obtaining of slides in step sections.
(16) A stable implantation of this biocompatible material is possible, if the primary attachment by means of special construction features and subtile operation technique is ensured.
(17) The measurement procedure was found to be very sensitive with respect to all fractions in evaluating the subtile differences between different lot numbers of the aerosol.
(18) The other highly vascular neoplasms show unspecific signs of vascular malignant tumors; subtile angiographic signs may, however, be present and help in the differential diagnosis.
(19) Subtile investigations in protein diagnostics are required for avoiding incomplete monoclonal immunoglobulins which may greatly enter the kidneys to be overlooked.
(20) When photographs taken at diastolic and systolic culminations were compared, with the haploscope, when stereoscopically seen, they clearly showed the subtile deformation of the vessels under a stereoscopic effect.