(v. t.) To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.
(v. t.) To strengthen in judgment or purpose.
(v. t.) To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.
(v. t.) To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty.
(v. t.) To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical and roentgenographic criteria could not discriminate between patients with and without pneumonia, confirming the findings of previous investigations.
(2) The nuclear origin of the Ha antigen was confirmed by the speckled nuclear immunofluorescence staining pattern given by purified antibody to Ha obtained from a specific immune precipitate.
(3) Trifluoroacetylated rabbit serum albumin was 5 times more reactive with these antibodies and thus more antigenic than the homologous acetylated moiety confirming the importance of the trifluoromethyl moiety as an epitope in the immunogen in vivo.
(4) In vitro studies carried out in this Department confirmed the high activity of mecillinam against Salmonella spp.
(5) The results of our microscopic model confirm that the continuum hypothesis used in our previous macroscopic model is reasonable.
(6) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(7) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(8) This theory was confirmed by product analysis and by measuring the affinity of the substrate for the enzyme by its inhibition of p-nitrophenyl glucoside hydrolysis.
(9) In 1 of the 3, anterior capsular detachment was also demonstrated radiographically and confirmed surgically.
(10) These observations were confirmed by the killing curves in pooled serum obtained at peak and trough levels.
(11) The pancreatic changes are unlikely to be an artefact, but rather a direct toxic effect of the alcohol as confirmed by the biochemical changes.
(12) Thus, our study confirmed that male subjects with a history of testicular maldescent have an increased risk for testis cancer, although the magnitude of this risk was lower than suggested previously.
(13) The operative arteriograms confirmed vascular occlusive phenomenon.
(14) A specimen of a very early ovum, 4 to 6 days old, shown in the luminal form of imbedding before any hemorrhage has taken place, confirms that the luminal form of imbedding does occur.
(15) One of the main components was confirmed to be caffeic acid which had inhibitory effect on renal failure in mice by Ac1-P.
(16) Abbott also unveiled his new ministry, which confirmed only one woman would serve in the first Abbott cabinet.
(17) We have confirmed this directly by showing that pure CCK is a potent inhibitor of gastric emptying.
(18) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
(19) All masses had either histologic confirmation (n = 11) or confirmation with other imaging modalities (n = 4).
(20) An inverse relationship between the pumping capacity of the heart and vascular resistance was confirmed at different stages of examination and treatment of the patients.
Reconfirm
Definition:
(v. t.) To confirm anew.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study demonstrates the limitations of the Q-Tip test and reconfirms the need for more sensitive and specific urodynamic investigations of the incontinent woman.
(2) The stereoisomerism of sphingosylphosphorylcholine containing mainly L-threo-sphingosine could be reconfirmed by carbon-13 NMR spectroscopy.
(3) The importance of calcium in the regulation of human sperm motility was reconfirmed in this study.
(4) The location of the positive immunostaining in the HUT 102 nuclei was reconfirmed by the reaction in isolated nuclei.
(5) Study of this family reconfirmed the close association of HLA-A25, -B18 and -DR2 with the C2 gene, but indicated a less close association of these loci with serologic markers.
(6) Thirteen of them had a BAL EV 4 which consisted of rather characteristic patterns of cell differential counts: thus their diagnoses were reconfirmed.
(7) When the data of all three subgroups were pooled, regression analysis reconfirmed the importance of the muscle parameter (R2 = 0.06-0.27) to bone density variation, but more importantly it showed that differentiation based on exercise status was most significant (R2 = 0.18-0.22).
(8) Those pledges that have been made public reconfirm the Copenhagen offers, for example, a 17% cut from 2005 levels for the US, 20% from 1990 levels for the EU and 25% from the same base for Japan.
(9) The importance of conduction disturbances and tachyarrhythmias as the determining factors of the late results of postoperative patients with ventricular septal defect and tetralogy of Fallot was reconfirmed in this follow-up study.
(10) Therefore, the present investigation indicates that the negative ER, single expression of c-erbB-2 and co-expression of EGF-R and TGF-alpha are important markers which contribute indirectly to prognosis, which reconfirms previous findings on the former two while adding the new finding that immunohistochemical demonstration of expression of EGF-R and TGF-alpha may provide useful information for selecting the appropriate treatment.
(11) We have reconfirmed our previous findings that controlled, reproducible, sustained, discrete vocal cord abduction can be achieved synchronously with respiration by electrophysiologic stimulation of the paralyzed posterior cricoarytenoid muscles.
(12) Apparent losses of methylmercury on freeze-drying of blood need to be reconfirmed on further samples.
(13) Thirty-one improved (PB), with the need for HTx reconfirmed in 22 and performed in 14.
(14) These facts reconfirmed crystallographically the high homogeneity of the present preparation of human recombinant IL-2.
(15) The heads of state or government of 27 member states reconfirmed their statement of 29 June 2016 ,” stated a communique released late on Thursday.
(16) The cerebral circulatory and metabolic stimulation effect of N2O in the dog was reconfirmed.
(17) This finding reconfirms the use of routine urethrectomy in conjunction with cystectomy in female patients with invasive bladder cancer.
(18) These data reconfirmed that dentin is superior to enamel in making exact age estimations from teeth.
(19) Our results reconfirm the utility of IgG MAR test as screening test for the presence of antibodies but its positiveness requires the performance of IgA MAR test and, if necessary, of other tests in order to diagnose sterility depending on immunologic factors.
(20) The course of the disease in this study group has reconfirmed the efficacy of adrenal corticosteroid treatment in conjunction with an individualized physical therapy program and consistent followup.