(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.
Evidence
Definition:
(n.) That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the evidence of our senses; evidence of the truth or falsehood of a statement.
(n.) One who bears witness.
(n.) That which is legally submitted to competent tribunal, as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it; means of making proof; -- the latter, strictly speaking, not being synonymous with evidence, but rather the effect of it.
(v. t.) To render evident or clear; to prove; to evince; as, to evidence a fact, or the guilt of an offender.
Example Sentences:
(1) The evidence suggests a multifactorial etiology for this problem.
(2) The only other evidence of Kopachi's existence is the primary school near the memorial.
(3) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
(4) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(5) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
(6) Disseminated CMV infection with multiorgan involvement was evident in 7 of 9 at postmortem examination.
(7) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
(8) We sought additional evidence for an inverse relationship between functional CTL-target cell affinity on the one hand, and susceptibility of the CTL-mediated killing to inhibition by alpha LFA-1 and alpha Lyt-2,3 monoclonal antibodies on the other hand.
(9) Immunocompetence was also evident when the cells from thymectomized donors were first incubated with thymus extract for 1 hr and subsequently tested for reactivity.
(10) The mothers of these babies do not show any evidence of alpha-thalassaemia.
(11) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(12) Minimal levels were evident 16 weeks after irradiation; Hct then increased, but remained below preirradiation values.
(13) Evidence of fetal alcohol effects may be found for each outcome category.
(14) The present results provide no evidence for a clear morphological substrate for electrotonic transmission in the somatic efferent portion of the primate oculomotor nucleus.
(15) One patient with a large fistula angiographically had no oximetric evidence of shunt at cardiac catheterization.
(16) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
(17) We have previously shown that intratracheally instilled silica (quartz) produces both morphologic evidence of emphysema and small-airway changes, and functional evidence of airflow obstruction.
(18) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
(19) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(20) The condition is compared to extrahepatic and intrahepatic biliary atresia of man and evidence is presented for regarding this case to be one of extrahepatic origin.