What's the difference between accurately and inaccurately?

Accurately


Definition:

  • (adv.) In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
  • (2) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
  • (3) The procedure used in our laboratory was not able to provide accurate determination of the concentrations of these binding forms.
  • (4) The amino acid pools in Chinese hamster lung V79 cells were measured as a function of time during hyperthermic exposure at 40.5 degrees and 45.0 degrees C. Sixteen of the 20 protein amino acids were present in sufficient quantity to measure accurately.
  • (5) In this review, we demonstrate that serum creatinine does not provide an adequate estimate of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and contrary to recent teachings, that the slope of the reciprocal of serum creatinine vs time does not permit an accurate assessment of the rate of progression of renal disease.
  • (6) Although MR imaging can accurately show high-grade chondromalacia patellae, it is less accurate in the detection of low-grade disease.
  • (7) Fastidious microorganisms were accurately detected on C agar as well as on BA+MK.
  • (8) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
  • (9) The proposed method appears to offer a more consistently accurate means of measuring EDV than previously suggested ultrasound methods.
  • (10) Our experience shows that the most accurate indications are provided by acoustic stapedius reflex, brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs) and vestibular investigation.
  • (11) An accurate and reproducible method is described for generating a map of the cobalt sheet source from images of it made in multiple positions with the scintillation camera.
  • (12) The index estimated the probability of infection more accurately (p less than 0.01) than did clinicians, performed well in each site, and remained accurate when C. trachomatis and N. gonorrhoeae were considered separately.
  • (13) Second, is it possible - by combining the two technologies of endoscopy and computers - to provide an individual patient with a short-term prognostic prediction sufficiently accurate to affect patient management.
  • (14) Validation studies, to show that the method is precise, accurate and rectilinear, have been carried out on four linctus formulations and two pastille formulations.
  • (15) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
  • (16) The quantitative method used for determination of HBDH is reliable, accurate, simple and rapid and therefore has better value in a clinical setting than electrophoresis and adsorption techniques which are laborious and time consuming.
  • (17) REA is stable, sensitive, accurate and reproducible.
  • (18) These tests are considered to be less accurate than blood test.
  • (19) In-situ hybridisation for CMV-DNA provides an accurate and rapid diagnosis of CMV infection, and allows specific antiviral therapy to be used earlier.
  • (20) Interexaminer reliability studies indicate that a standard method of motion palpation is quite feasible and accurate.

Inaccurately


Definition:

  • (adv.) In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the genitourinary clinic setting, clinical diagnosis prior to biopsy was found frequently to be inaccurate.
  • (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) For both early and late P300 peaks, ERC patterns following feedback about inaccurate performance involved more frontal sites than did those following feedback about accurate performance.
  • (4) Personalised health tests that screen thousands of genes for versions that influence disease are inaccurate and offer little, if any, benefit to consumers, scientists claimed on Monday.
  • (5) The media's image of a "gamer" might still be of a man in his teens or 20s sitting in front of Call of Duty for six-hour stretches, but that stereotype is now more inaccurate than ever.
  • (6) In addition, quantification of fluid output from a fistula may be grossly inaccurate.
  • (7) Disk position was assessed inaccurately in either plane in patients with severe degenerative joint disease.
  • (8) They claim that Zero Dark Thirty is "grossly inaccurate and misleading in its suggestion that torture resulted in information that led to the capture".
  • (9) Aside from the fact that it is intemperate and inaccurate, it is also libelous.
  • (10) Not only that, it prejudicially and inaccurately links me to a terrorist attack, which the vast majority of Muslims (including myself) believe to be absolutely abhorrent and against the teachings of Islamic principles.
  • (11) Inaccurate IFS diagnosis of depth of myometrial invasion can occur when tumor involves the uterine isthmus or cornua and when tumor invades areas of adenomyosis.
  • (12) It appears that the nature of the questions asked may be as much or more of a contributing factor to inaccurate self-reports as subject or setting factors, especially for individuals who report high levels of alcohol use, for whom special efforts may be necessary to gather valid self-report data.
  • (13) The 2.5-hr assay at 35 C proved to be an inaccurate method.
  • (14) Moreover, genetics textbooks consistently employ confused or misleading definitions of the concept of heritability that, together with the reporting of discredited data, perpetuate a fundamentally inaccurate understanding of the genetics of intelligence.
  • (15) The interpretation of responses to trains of impulses can be made inaccurate by alternate blocking.
  • (16) Although this process has been found to be inaccurate, nurses often express discomfort when clients hold perceptions of reality that run counter to their own views.
  • (17) The common practice of describing the histologic distribution of pulmonary lesions from their radiographic patterns is often inaccurate.
  • (18) Simple linear regressions on age and height are inaccurate, in particular for young adults and for the elderly.
  • (19) The nonlinear relationship between LDL and hearing loss together with the large intersubject variability in the data suggest that prediction of LDL from hearing threshold would often be highly inaccurate.
  • (20) Thus, the thermodilution technique of measuring cardiac output is inaccurate in patients with tricuspid regurgitation, yielding results that are consistently lower than the actual outputs.