(a.) Consisting in, or pertaining to, circumstances or particular incidents.
(a.) Incidental; relating to, but not essential.
(a.) Abounding with circumstances; detailing or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular.
(n.) Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance; opposed to an essential; -- generally in the plural; as, the circumstantials of religion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circumstantial evidence indicated that in the field; the incubation period of P multocida in a turkey flock may be between 2 to 7 weeks.
(2) There are major difficulties in diagnosing hypoglycaemia post-mortem, but the timing of death and other circumstantial evidence suggests that hypoglycaemia or a hypoglycaemia-associated event was responsible.
(3) Evidence for transmission of swine influenza virus to humans before 1974 is minimal and circumstantial.
(4) These results provide circumstantial evidence that hypothalamic H may have a role in the hypothalamo-hypophyseal-gonadal axis in the male rat.
(5) Circumstantial evidence has provided much support for the idea that some relationship exists between sex hormones and serum lipid content.
(6) As the evidence gained in favour of a given function of primary cilia has, so far, always been circumstantial, extreme caution in interpretation must be exercise.
(7) Except for an associated benign odontogenic tumor or a cyst, evidence for an odontogenic origin is only circumstantial.
(8) and circumstantial evidence in the literature seemed to imply that the raising of the hepatic glutathione concentration above normal was not accompanied by a rise in the rate of sinusoidal efflux.
(9) Sufficient circumstantial evidence is available indicating that catecholamines together with protein carbohydrate complexes are contained in these cells within the membrane bound cytoplasmic granules.
(10) Circumstantial evidence indicates that anomalous K+ channels are directly activated by alpha subunits of Gi, but not Go, proteins.
(11) They add circumstantial weight to the reports on the Trump campaign’s Kremlin links compiled last year and passed to the FBI by a former MI6 officer, Christopher Steele.
(12) The histologic characteristics favor a vascular cause for the condition, but the evidence is circumstantial.
(13) It has been suspected on circumstantial clinical evidence in a few patients (17.5%) who have been successfully treated by simple enucleation.
(14) The same procedures are being followed – arrest as many as you can and present a circumstantial case in the hope that at least some of them will be convicted.
(15) These drugs also present good circumstantial evidence for minor groove interaction of B-DNA.
(16) Circumstantial evidence has pointed to the conversion of alcohol to aldehyde in skin as the cause of cinnamic alcohol sensitization.
(17) This unusual pattern noted in two homicides found two weeks apart, in concert with other circumstantial evidence, led to the successful conviction of the man for both murders.
(18) However, circumstantial evidence is beginning to provide a tenuous link between smoking and the protease-antiprotease imbalance hypothesis.
(19) Reduction of endothelial loss on reperfusion by the use of verapamil and desferrioxamine provides circumstantial evidence that ischemia and reperfusion damage of organs stored for transplantation is partly due to Fe++(+)- and Ca+(+)-dependent mechanisms that probably involve increased free radical production.
(20) Our results provide circumstantial support to a monoclonal hypothesis for human embryonic hemopoiesis, based on migration of stem and early progenitor cells from a generation site (YS) to a colonization site (L) via circulating blood.
Inferential
Definition:
(a.) Deduced or deducible by inference.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subtle cognitive deficits in Inferential Reading Comprehension were detected when Reading Vocabulary was at or better than a twelfth grade level.
(2) Three-quarters of the sample was impaired on at least one of four discourse tests (knowing the alternate meanings of ambiguous words in context; getting the point of figurative or metaphoric expressions; bridging the inferential gaps between events in stereotyped social situations; and producing speech acts that express the apparent intentions of others).
(3) Thirty-eight patients with various forms of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) were studied for the loss of restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) heterozygosity on chromosome 5q as inferential support for the presence of a growth regulatory locus in this area of the genome.
(4) This is a statistical descriptive and inferential study.
(5) A model is presented for the integration of clinical-inferential and quantitative approaches to classification.
(6) Eight measurements were made, mainly on slices extracted from the middle of the vocalic portions, and inferential and correlational statistics were applied to these measures.
(7) The relationship between individual differences in conjugate lateral eye movements (CLEMs) and inferential reasoning was investigated in two experiments.
(8) The studies were designed to provide inferential insights about the possible role of insulin in embryogenesis during different phases of nutrient delivery.
(9) The seriousness of this problem depends upon the robustness of the phylogenetic inferential procedure to departures from the underlying model.
(10) For inferential analyses directed at therapeutic or preventive effects, analytic models based on site independence are deemed unsatisfactory.
(11) Clear documentation of the one-sided inferential posture of a study in its protocol.
(12) That increase is due primarily to the increase in articles using inferential statistics.
(13) It appears to explain many visual illusions, such as the movement aftereffect and center-surround induced motion, and it may bridge the gap between direct Gibsonian and indirect inferential theories of motion perception.
(14) A proper understanding and use of appropriate sampling techniques is most likely to result in the most desired representative sample, and guarantees that some underlying assumptions for inferential statistics will be satisfied.
(15) The accepted definition of amacrine cells is sufficiently vague to justify our originating a more descriptive and less inferential name for the (axonless) neurons in the inner nuclear layer which radiate processes throughout the inner synaptic layer.
(16) Through a series of experimentally derived inferential steps, we conclude that this phenomenon depends on the removal of protons from the acid receptors.
(17) In conclusion, a great deal of indirect and inferential data point to herpesviruses as having a role in atherogenesis.
(18) Inferential data suggest that environmental factors may be important to genetic penetrance albeit we still lack proof for involvement of often maligned viruses.
(19) Alternatively, for academic studies where publication with an inferential posture is of interest for either potential direction of findings, two-sided methods are typically useful.
(20) Typical inferential statistical procedures, such as the t-test and analysis of variance, compare differences in mean values of variables.