(n.) The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail.
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.
Irrelevant
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
(2) At this point that is largely an irrelevance,” he said.
(3) That idea may seem irrelevant to those of us who live a broadband lifestyle, but Justin Smith – who tracks the company's movements on the Inside Facebook blog – says that it makes perfect sense.
(4) Mammary tumors in dogs related to oral contraceptives are now widely considered to be irrelevant as a model or predictor for human tumors.
(5) We conclude that transformation by transfection with human tumor DNA does not require persistence of the BKV viral genome, suggesting that either BKV virus was irrelevant to original oncogenesis, in analogy with models proposed by others for herpesvirus oncogenesis.
(6) The search for the Na-K-ATPase inhibitor has been hampered by the lack of specificity of most assays which demonstrate the presence of many irrelevant Na-K-ATPase inhibitors.
(7) Ratios of MoAb 273-34A to a nonspecific, irrelevant MoAb 135-14 are 250 to 285 times higher in the lung than in the serum.
(8) But what has really been lost is a sense of the density and interdependence of human life, which can neither be reduced to a formula nor brushed aside as irrelevant.
(9) It isn't, of course; but to make the primary complaint that he is using his view of the first world war to make political points is asking us to make history irrelevant to all but academics.
(10) As arousal level increases, so does selectivity, and attention is diverted away from irrelevant task components.
(11) New analysis by the climate think tank Sandbag predicts that by 2020 the ETS could be so over-supplied with tradable permits that it will be almost completely irrelevant.
(12) The actual rights and wrongs of it are almost irrelevant.
(13) When the three-tone patterns were embedded in longer sequences of seven or eight tones, the identification performance was best when the pattern occurred at the beginning or the end of the sequence, and when the range of frequencies from which the irrelevant background tones were chosen lay outside the range of pattern frequencies.
(14) The “right to be forgotten” ruling allows EU residents to request the removal of search results that they feel link to outdated or irrelevant information about themselves on a country-by-country basis.
(15) Using this methodology, no non-allogeneic reactive T cells remain in the responding cells: after restimulation by autologous LCL, no IL-2-SC could be seen and no cytotoxic activity could be observed against autologous, irrelevant or LAK sensitive targets.
(16) Blocking is an established animal learning procedure, thought by some researchers to reflect selective attention; decreased blocking indicates increased processing of irrelevant stimuli.
(17) There was a significant but clinically irrelevant increase in mean pulse rate before and 1 min after early bronchoscopy.
(18) In both experiments, videotapes of model monkeys behaving fearfully were spliced so that it appeared that the models were reacting fearfully either to fear-relevant stimuli (toy snakes or a toy crocodile), or to fear-irrelevant stimuli (flowers or a toy rabbit).
(19) The precise identities of the alleles are irrelevant to the linkage analysis so long as identity-by-descent and linkage-phase information are preserved.
(20) And the fact that the disclosures have led to the highest journalism rewards, have led to historic reforms in the US and around the world – all of that would be irrelevant in a prosecution under the espionage laws in the United States.” Snowden also could face an untold number of additional charges if he returned to the United States.