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Certitude
Definition:
(n.) Freedom from doubt; assurance; certainty.
Example Sentences:
(1) The changes are so typical that the manner and even the object of sucking can often be inferred from them with considerable certitude.
(2) Extension of previous studies adds to the ever-growing body of nursing knowledge and increases the certitude, casualty, and generalizability of such investigations.
(3) Moreover, certain arteries are not easily accessible and thus not always found or at least recognized with certitude.
(4) Certitude has taken this approach to support patients with mental ill health.
(5) Or at least the profound certitude of a fundamentalist cleric.
(6) A ham-fisted attempt to explain away the picture as a prank by hackers failed, as did a subsequent claim that he could not say with "certitude" that he was the man behind the bulge.
(7) The inflammatory reactions around the fungus give the certitude that it is a pathogen and not a contaminant.
(8) Scientist's norms (principally honesty, objectivity, tolerance, doubt of certitude, and unselfish engagement) are in danger of serious distortion unless broadened to apply to the relations between scientists and nonscientists.
(9) This technique makes it possible to obtain a bacteriological certitude in 31 cases (65 per cent): Pott's disease (40 per cent) and 12 pyogene spondylodiscites (25 per cent), with 17 punctures remaining negative, including 5 technical failures, the needle not penetrating into the pinched disc.
(10) The decision as to whether anticoagulant treatment should be instituted must be based on the certitude of the diagnosis, and this can be obtained in an atraumatic manner by ultrasonography of the popliteal fossa as shown by iconography.
(11) In two cases, this test was the only way that permits us to have certitude of candidosis ocular diagnosis.
(12) In the group with primary reflux, barium swallow tests and endoscopy were useful in confirming the diagnosis in patients with typical symptoms; routine biopsy, lower esophageal sphincter, manometry or an acid infusion test did not add to diagnostic certitude.
(13) In four cases out of six the histological test of the pleural fragment has rendered evident the presence of tubercular lymphoepithelioid nodulus with central necrosis, thus carrying the argument of certitude.
(14) Over the past 20 years, numerous investigators have implied or stated with increasing certitude that clonogenic assays are the most valid (or only valid) approach to predictive chemosensitivity testing.
(15) The influence of altitude can be demonstrated with certitude.
(16) Seeing as he was in reality monstrously wrong, this certitude had dire consequences.
(17) The definitive diagnosis of certitude can only be made by electron microscopy with the identification of various developmental stages of the parasites.
(18) We’re yet to be convinced that you could have a sufficient rules-base and certitude by alternative approaches.
(19) But Wilson cautioned against going after Rubio, who he said has a “natural talent, speed and certitude” that Bush simply lacks.
(20) Treatment is exclusively surgical and diagnosis is confirmed with certitude by histopathology only.