(v. t.) To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject.
(v. t.) To deny, as a claim; to refuse.
(v. t.) To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office.
(v. t.) To disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share.
Example Sentences:
(1) An appropriate disclaimer would be: these figures are rubbish, but we're printing them anyway.
(2) However, from subjects' justifications for the decision not to punish, it was noted that nearly 50% of the 8-year-olds and 25% of the 5-year-olds provided evidence of understanding the mitigating function of disclaimers.
(3) He, of course, disclaimed his commitment, telling an American admirer that he was "a person who prefers life to art, and who knows it is a far finer thing to be in love…" The record of his creativity suggests the opposite, only adding to the aura of enigma that still surrounds him.
(4) The psychoanalytic literature on infantile phobias, despite disclaimers by several of its prominent authors, seems to demonstrate a growth in knowledge of these conditions and an increasing respect for methodology.
(5) The company has since put a disclaimer on its website, apologising for the mistake and saying that it will give $50 from each $499.99 pistol sold to the American Cancer Society instead.
(6) At the weekend, the film's director Ron Howard turned down requests by the Catholic organisation Opus Dei to add a disclaimer at the beginning of the film while a leading cardinal called for legal action against the film and the book, saying that they were offensive to Jesus Christ and the Catholic church.
(7) GNM further disclaims liability for any injury or damage to your or any other person’s computer relating to or resulting from participation in or downloading any materials in connection with the Awards.
(8) Let me make the obvious disclaimer: not all landlords are on the take, nor are all tenants angels mindful of fixtures and fittings, and keeping the music down.
(9) Any comparison with Ireland rouses alarm in Scotland, so here come the disclaimers: Scotland was never a colony settled by foreign conquerors; England did not control Scotland by fire and slaughter; Scotland has no Fenian tradition of conspiracy in the cause of independence; and, best of all, Scotland has no political Ulster.
(10) Despite earlier work indicating young children's competence in the use and understanding of retrospective "facework strategies" such as apologies, justifications, and excuses, it was hypothesized that an understanding of the disclaimer, a prospective strategy, would be relatively late appearing.
(11) This disclaimer is probably necessary because the late pontiff is revealed to have made some eccentric decisions but, as Harris’s “late Holy Father” shares most of the biography of Pope Francis and has also made identical speeches, it is in practice impossible not to impose his face on the character.
(12) Having disclaimed his peerages, he was elected a member of the House of Commons for Kinross and West Perthshire.
(13) Disclaimer: Lilian Edwards was the Specialist Adviser to the Lords Select Committee on communications report on social media and criminal law.
(14) He wasn't comfortable with the disclaimer that we are required to run when some smoking scene is shown in films.
(15) The electronic imaging disclaimer compiled by the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons has been extremely helpful in clarifying the limits of computerized imaging and reducing any false expectations that my patients might have.
(16) 3) To have the opportunity, if they so wish, formally to disclaim high risk in themselves, though the mechanism for this will be complicated.
(17) However, it is concluded that Minimax decisions, which depend upon the employed test system but not upon prior probabilities, are more appropriate in paternity cases if equal prior good will towards disclaimed children and alleged fathers is demanded.
(18) First, although Dr. Hughes disclaims an essentialist position, he in fact argues consistently for a classification of nerve cells based on key, essential features; except where, briefly, he argues for a numerical taxonomic approach.
(19) Finally, Saudi personnel may be invited to attend regular training courses run in the UK for UK and allied forces.” The FoI response contained the standard MoD disclaimer in relation to the Yemen conflict: “British personnel are not involved in carrying out strikes, directing or conducting operations in Yemen or selecting targets, and are not involved in the Saudi targeting decision-making process.
(20) The expansion of more promising therapies for the chronically ill or the old is blocked by medical insurances, which disclaim the necessity of hospital treatment; by doctors, who still adhere to antiquated therapeutic concepts (treatment of symptoms instead of treating the ill by diminishing afflictions and improving compensatory abilities) and due to an acute lack of hospital beds.
Nait
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Maternal alloimmunization against fetal platelets can cause fetal and neonatal thrombocytopenia (NAIT).
(2) Improvements in antenatal diagnosis and in utero therapy facilitate appropriate management of pregnancy at risk for NAIT.
(3) There is evidence that in certain cases antibodies against blood group antigens A or B may cause NAIT.
(4) Recent evidence that NAIT is more common than has previously been recognised, a better understanding of the molecular basis of platelet serology and advances in technology, which have made it possible to take blood samples from fetuses and transfuse them in utero, have all contributed to a growing interest in this condition.
(5) Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT) is caused by platelet antigen incompatibility between the mother and fetus.
(6) Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT) occurs when maternal alloantibodies to antigens present on fetal platelets cause their immune destruction resulting in thrombocytopenia in the newborn infant or fetus.
(7) Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT) is due to fetomaternal incompatibility for platelet specific antigens, most frequently HPA-1a (PLA1) and HPA-5b (BRa).
(8) A 31 year old woman was assessed following delivery of her second child affected by neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT).
(9) An immune response to human platelet antigens (HPA), as in neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT) and post-transfusion purpura (PTP), is the exception rather than the rule and evidence is accumulating for the importance of human leucocyte antigen (HLA) class II restriction in this situation.
(10) This report of an unaffected pregnancy in a woman with a history of previous pregnancies complicated by NAIT illustrates the role of paternal and fetal platelet phenotyping in managing existing pregnancies at risk of NAIT.
(11) The sera of 219 Zwa-positive mothers who gave birth to children with clinically suspected neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT) were tested for platelet-reactive antibodies using the platelet adhesion immunofluorescence test and a glycoprotein-specific immunoassay (MAIPA).
(12) Because there is high risk that subsequent pregnancies might be also affected by NAIT, the mothers of a previously affected child should be managed similarly to the HPA-1b mothers (PIA2, Zwb).
(13) Platelet specific alloantibodies cause neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT), posttransfusion purpura (PTP) and may be found in patients who are refractory to HLA-matched platelet transfusion.
(14) In accordance with established criteria, the Sra antigen represents the first example of a "private" platelet alloantigen that bears significance in rare instances of NAIT.
(15) We report our experience with the serological diagnosis of 14 NAIT cases using new performing techniques such as western blotting (WB) and MAIPA (monoclonal antibody specific immobilization of platelet antigens).
(16) This is a report of 39 cases of NAIT involving the HPA-5b antigen.
(17) Bra antibodies were from mothers of children with neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT), and anti-Brb was found in the serum of a polytransfused patient.
(18) NAIT is mainly due to alloimmunization; the frequency varying among ethnic groups.
(19) Immunization against these alloantigens is implicated in NAIT and poly-transfused patients.
(20) In the serum of a mother who gave birth to a child with the typical clinical picture of NAIT we found an antibody directed against the new platelet antigen Sra.