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Dec 29, 2004 00:29
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English term
cusp
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Medical (general)
What is the meaning of 'CUSP' in the following sentence. The dictionary mentioned the word 'CUSP' as a 'heart valve' which I know is not what it is mean here. Full context below (extract of conversation of a mental people talking to his doctor):
There’s so many people here that are on the cusp, that…there’s great potential here and if you’re just medicating people, and just giving us checkers…we’re much more than that.You know, people you’ve deemed us as ill or something and, and we’re we’re all at crossroads right now.
There’s so many people here that are on the cusp, that…there’s great potential here and if you’re just medicating people, and just giving us checkers…we’re much more than that.You know, people you’ve deemed us as ill or something and, and we’re we’re all at crossroads right now.
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edge
there are individuals there who are on the edge, or 'boundary' of mental illness and sanity
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coming to a crucial point
Also an apex. I think the patient means there are so many patients who could go in either direction (at the crossroads): either recover or go down the tube (become hopelessly ill). They have potential but the doctors are just keeping them medicated and not helping them recover.
cusp
n. prominence; crown of tooth; sharp point; Astrology, cross-over point between two signs. cuspal, adj, cuspate, adj, having cusps. cuspid, n. canine tooth. cuspidal, a. cuspidate, adj, coming to a point.
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cusp
n. prominence; crown of tooth; sharp point; Astrology, cross-over point between two signs. cuspal, adj, cuspate, adj, having cusps. cuspid, n. canine tooth. cuspidal, a. cuspidate, adj, coming to a point.
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Balaban Cerit
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juvera
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chica nueva
: (teetering) at the edge, on the verge of mental illness they have not 'gone over the edge' yet, but are on the threshold of it.
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Jörgen Slet
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Java Cafe
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cusp = the dividing line between two very different things
cusp = the dividing line between two very different things eg on the cusp of adulthood
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Note added at 4 hrs 27 mins (2004-12-29 04:57:27 GMT)
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cusp = 1 a pointed end; peak 2 any of the elevations on the chewing surface of a tooth 3 any triangular fold of a heart valve 4 either horn of a crescent, as of the moon 5 Geom a corner point formed by two tangent branches of a curve.
-> 1 and 5 indicate the idea of a sharp turning point, going over the edge
perhaps you can also say \'on the verge\' (of mental illness)
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Note added at 4 hrs 27 mins (2004-12-29 04:57:27 GMT)
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cusp = 1 a pointed end; peak 2 any of the elevations on the chewing surface of a tooth 3 any triangular fold of a heart valve 4 either horn of a crescent, as of the moon 5 Geom a corner point formed by two tangent branches of a curve.
-> 1 and 5 indicate the idea of a sharp turning point, going over the edge
perhaps you can also say \'on the verge\' (of mental illness)
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20 hrs
full productive potential
This is the meaning inferred from the conversation. the speaker says that they are human beings, and as they are medicaterd they ask for respect whem getting medicated as some of them at on the cusp (meaning that some of them are highly productive and they don't want to be destroyed by medications) That's what I can deduct from the small paragraph.
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