What's the difference between criteria and criterions?
Criteria
Definition:
(pl. ) of Criterion
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical and roentgenographic criteria could not discriminate between patients with and without pneumonia, confirming the findings of previous investigations.
(2) 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.
(3) The number of neoplastic cells in each cell suspension was determined by cytologic criteria.
(4) Anatomic and roentgenographic criteria used for the assessment of reduction in ankle fractures are highlighted in this review of ankle trauma.
(5) Our results on humoral and cellular components of immunity in dependence of age, according to SENIEUR protocol admission criteria are presented.
(6) In a control scheme for enzootic-pneumonia-free herds, 43 herds developed enzootic pneumonia, as judged by non-specific clinical and pathological criteria over 10 years.
(7) Three criteria of fusion ventricular complexes were found to be undiagnostic for right and left ventricular complexes in SVE.
(8) The criteria for sero-positivity was determined from the median antibody concentration in a group of 368 non-endoscoped control patients.
(9) Analysis of risk factors and use of criteria for categorizing severity of disease can be helpful in designing new treatments, identifying potential recipients of such agents, and evaluating outcome of therapy.
(10) This case is unusual in that it demonstrated no malignant epithelium beyond that of a borderline tumor, but met the criteria of malignancy because of its invasiveness and metastasis.
(11) At this threshold there was no effect on reducing the rate of visual acuity overreferrals, but ten children with abnormal binocular vision were detected who were not referred by visual acuity criteria.
(12) Radiological findings on chest X-rays taken two weeks after BAI were evaluated according to Takeuchi's criteria.
(13) Criteria for DOP administration were systolic blood pressure less than 100 mmHg and central venous pressure greater than 15 cmH2O.
(14) Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis was diagnosed by strict histologic criteria in 103 patients.
(15) Variables from the medical history, physical examination, laboratory tests, and radiographs were used to develop different sets of criteria to serve different investigative purposes.
(16) Six cases of chronic eosinophilic pneumonia fulfilled the following criteria: 1) more than a two-month history of symptoms prior to diagnosis, 2) a prolonged clinical course and 3) recurrence.
(17) 3,4-Dihydroxyphenyl ethylene glycol (DOPEG), a metabolite of noradrenaline (NA), was estimated in CSF of 30 patients of depression diagnosed by the criteria of American Psychiatric Association in DSM-III; and compared with levels in 10 non-depressed individuals who served as controls.
(18) The efficacy of endolymphatic antibiotic therapy was evaluated by using clinical, laboratory, cytochemical, and immunological criteria.
(19) In the first of two phases of this study, we established criteria for a prospective screening study.
(20) In all, 23 patients were evaluable by WHO criteria.
Criterions
Definition:
(pl. ) of Criterion
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(2) Recent reports have indicated the usefulness of nuclear grooves (clefts or notches) as an additional criterion for the diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma in fine needle aspirates; most of these studies were carried out on alcohol-fixed material stained with the Papanicolaou stain or with hematoxylin and eosin, which yield good nuclear details.
(3) The Psychiatric Diagnostic Interview, a DSM-III-compatible, criterion-referenced, structured interview, was administered to 565 patients admitted to the Alcoholism and Drug Treatment Units.
(4) The diagnostic criterion was a difference in talar tilt of 6 or more degrees between the injured and uninjured foot on inversion stress radiographs.
(5) Thirty adult male Wister rats were pretrained to criterion on the moving belt test, and then made tolerant to ethanol by daily administration of increasing doses over a period of 3 weeks.
(6) No decisive numerical criterion was found that could be used to separate normal from abnormal copper concentrations because of this continuous array.
(7) A 90% appropriate response criterion was reached for all measures.
(8) Six of 13 mutations investigated were judged to be missense by this criterion.
(9) The optimization criterion is defined as the net calorie gain a consumer accrues per day.
(10) Old age per se was not found to be a relevant exclusion criterion.
(11) The criterion of efficacy was the ability of the vaccines to reduce the extent of pneumonic lesions in vaccinated as against unvaccinated control lambs.
(12) All four predictor variables were found to be related, and it was shown that ratings of figure bizarreness alone adequately predicted the criterion.
(13) The response criterion (80% suppression of PVCs of control for 8 hours) was met after the 300-mg dose in three patients.
(14) The results show that in the majority of victims the response to rape within the first two weeks displays the symptoms of PTSD, although the criterion of duration is not fulfilled.
(15) Convergent validity between the two non-verbal memory tests, discriminant validity against tests of verbal memory, and criterion-related validity in relation to the influence of different treatment modalities, indicate the tests as valid instruments for measuring non-verbal memory.
(16) To test this hypothesis, we applied a widely accepted criterion of denervation-ie, and increase in extrajunctional acetyicholine (ACh) receptor sites--to muscles biopsy specimens from nine patients with myotonic dystrophy and three with amyotrophic lateral scierosis (ALS).
(17) Unfortunately, few reflections concern the definition of this criterion, which often is little discussed in the other divisions of the pure and applied chemistry.
(18) The apparent tolerance of noncompensatory mutations in some stems which are otherwise strongly supported by comparative criteria within D. melanogaster 28S rRNA must be borne in mind when compensatory mutations are used as a criterion in secondary-structure modeling.
(19) Our study confirms that lupus anticoagulant may be present in a significant number of patients with normal routine activated partial thromboplastin time, a test which therefore cannot be used as the sole criterion for identifying patients suspected of having lupus anticoagulant.
(20) In the radial maze task, both VE(-) and VE(+) animals required as many trials to reach the learning criterion as control animals.