One early sense of the definition of art is closely related to the older Latin meaning, which roughly translates to skill or craft, as associated with words such as artisan.. English words derived from this meaning include artifact, artificial, artifice, medical arts, and military arts.
To be acceptable at least 95 percent of the results have to be within plus or minus 15 mg/dl at blood glucose levels below 100 mg/dl and within plus or minus 15 percent at blood glucose levels greater than or equal to 100 mg/dl. Ten of the 12 meters that Dr. Freckmann and his team evaluated met the higher standard.
None of the meters reviewed have a backlight. All of the meters reviewed have a blood glucose range of 20-600 and have clear, easy-to-understand voices. In all cases, the strips are packaged with the insertion end at the top of the strip container. The insertion end of all the meters has squared corners.