(v. t.) To bear witness to; to certify; to affirm to be true or genuine; as, to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record.
(v. t.) To give proof of; to manifest; as, the ruins of Palmyra attest its ancient magnificence.
(v. t.) To call to witness; to invoke.
(n.) Witness; testimony; attestation.
Example Sentences:
(1) I do not warm to Scudamore, as much of my prior and subsequent output would attest.
(2) The improvement in the condition of patients who had been operated on was attested by the results of ECG, polycardiography, and external respiration tests.
(3) Although stability does not imply rigidity or impossibility of change, the strength of prediction found in these data attest to the "force of habit" that community interventions can encounter.
(4) The objective is to comment on some plausible mutual implications of generally attested pathologies and normal models of lexical retrieval for production, particularly with respect to the roles of semantic and syntactic categories.
(5) … In response to the shooting of Kharkiv mayor Gennady Kernes Everything happening now in Ukraine attests to the immediate need to disarm all militant groups, beginning with the Right Sector fighters, and to begin real, and not simulated, work of constitutional reform in the Ukrainian government and a search for international agreement.
(6) We counted all type I fibers and determined type I and II mean fiber areas in eight equidistant sections taken along the length of control and overloaded MG. Increase in muscle weights (31%), as well as in total muscle cross-sectional areas (37%) and fiber areas (type I, 57%; type II, 34%), attested to a significant hypertrophic response in overloaded MG. An increase in type I fiber composition of MG from 7.0 to 11.5% occurred as a result of overload, with the greatest and only statistically significant changes (approximately 70-100%) being found in sections taken from the most rostral 45% of the muscle length.
(7) The data attest to much social, rather than purely cognitive learning, of beliefs about smoking among children.
(8) Even though numerous studies attest the short-term in vitro efficacy of antisense oligodeoxynucleotides as inhibitors of tumour growth, the use of these compounds as therapeutic agents awaits a more rigorous demonstration of their long term effects and favourable pharmacological properties.
(9) As compared to the standard diet, the high sucrose diet induced an increase of the in vivo insulin response to an intravenous load and deteriorated the glucose tolerance as attested by significantly lower rates of glucose disappearance (K values, p less than 0.001).
(10) Analysis of the data obtained attests to the similar (in terms of the times of the healing of gastric and duodenal ulcers) clinical efficacy of the methods under comparison.
(11) The follow-up ECG also attested to the good judgment of the physician in the emergency room.
(12) In addition, the improved growth and healing of rickets further attest to the efficacy of the new treatment.
(13) In the authors' opinion, despite the high insulin content, the reduced level of C-peptide attests to hypofunction of beta-cells in acute intestinal infection, since it reflects their function more precisely.
(14) Survival of samples of patients' adrenal medullary tissue for 2 weeks in tissue culture attested to the viability of the graft at the time of transplantation.
(15) Disorders revealed in the patients with the akinetico-rigid form often attest to the dysfunction of the frontal parts of the brain.
(16) Eight deaths and liver rupture in 18 patients attest to the seriousness of this new potentially lethal adverse phenomenon.
(17) This case attests to the remarkable ability of the coronary artery to completely heal from a major wall trauma.
(18) In situ hybridizations and Northern transfer analyses with human-sequence-specific cDNAs encoding collagenous and noncollagenous protein sequences demonstrated selective expression of different matrix genes by these two cell types, indicating different biosynthetic capacities of these cells and attesting to the specificity of the hybridizations.
(19) In primary cultures of Kupffer cells obtained from surgical biopsies of human liver by collagenase perfusion followed by centrifugal elutriation and infected with HIV, the virus multiplied abundantly, as attested by the appearance of a reverse transcriptase activity in the medium.
(20) The clinical and laboratory data obtained point to the presence in some patients with visceral candidiasis of parathyroid, thyroid, pancreatic and adrenocortical dysfunctions, attesting to their importance in the disease pathogenesis.
Corroborate
Definition:
(v. t.) To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.
(v. t.) To make more certain; to confirm; to establish.
(a.) Corroborated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Data obtained with fenoldopam were corroborated with use of SK&F 38393, another dopamine D1-receptor agonist.
(2) The assumption was also corroborated using reagents from a family in which DR3 and DQw2 were not found in the usually described linkage.
(3) This observation provides corroboration for the identification of the principal CCK-I neuron in the rat olfactory bulb as the centrally projecting middle tufted cell.
(4) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
(5) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
(6) This ability of differentiation could be corroborated for the RASCH-Model.
(7) The conformational similarity between tubules, sheets, and the dry powder is corroborated by calorimetry, which reveals a cooling exotherm at the same temperature where tubules form upon cooling hydrated sheets.
(8) No evidence was seen to corroborate the contention that individual lobules of the vermis may project essentially throughout the rostrocaudal extent of the nucleus.
(9) These had been diagnosed following an IVP procedure and corroborated by ultrasound.
(10) Further corroboration for multiple functional promoters came from heterologous expression of the pfl operon in the obligate aerobe Pseudomonas putida.
(11) The existence of a circadian rhythm for GFR, uTP, uA, and uRBP was corroborated by spontaneous changes over baseline levels, which also were prominent after lunch CL as compared to those following supper CL.
(12) The hypothesis relating the pattern of GH secretion to protein conversion efficiency was corroborated.
(13) The results shown here corroborate those two elements.
(14) The hypothesis of a relationship between self-complexity and individuals' sense of meaning and purpose in life was not corroborated by correlational analysis.
(15) The suspected high-risk characteristic in this group was corroborated by high progressive mortality observed particularly after axillo-femoral bypass and was due primarily to the severity of associated diseases.
(16) This work corroborates anatomical data well known since G. Lazorthes about the main trunk of the middle cerebral artery.
(17) Hence these results corroborate theoretical predictions that low P50 is advantageous under severe hypoxic stress.
(18) To corroborate our finding, we also analyzed serum Na+ and Cl- using a Technicon Sequential Multiple Analyzer + Computer (SMAC) system and a Nova 4 + 4 Clinical Analyzer (Nova).
(19) The results of protein, phospholipid and enzyme analyses were corroborated by analyses by 'genetic dissection' using an eyeless mutant line.
(20) In vitro, we corroborated that catecholamines significantly increased ammoniagenesis from kidney slices.