(a.) Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural.
(a.) Misleading; misled; mistaking.
(a.) Containing error; not conformed to truth or justice; incorrect; false; mistaken; as, an erroneous doctrine; erroneous opinion, observation, deduction, view, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Likewise, Merkel's Germany seems to be replicating the same erroneous policy as that of 1930, when a devotion to fiscal orthodoxy plunged the Weimar Republic into mass discontent that fuelled the flames of National Socialism.
(2) While there are many potential causative factors, erroneous concepts of IOL positioning and design appear to have led to PBK with many iris-supported and anterior chamber lens styles.
(3) A conclusion was made of inappropriateness of the use of iron combined with other preparations in view of numerous cases of side-effects and danger of the development of siderosis of internal organs as a result of erroneous drug administration.
(4) The results showed that measurements of impression profiles and SEM photogrammetry gave the most accurate results adjacent to regions simulating steep cavity margins, whereas the profilometric technique gave erroneous results in these regions.
(5) The belief that hydrocephalus could not be caused by venous obstruction is the result of erroneous or inadequate concepts of venous anatomy.
(6) Of 153 patients with confirmed rectal cancer CEA was recorded in 139 (90.8%); erroneous results were noted in 14 (9.2%) patients; in scintigraphy with 67Ga-citrate and 111In-bleomycin diagnoses coincided in 147 (96.1%) patients, and false-negative results were noted in 6 (3.9%) patients.
(7) Since patients with this type of implant may be examined with computed tomography (CT) for possible pulmonary metastatic disease, recognition of the CT appearance is important in order to avoid the erroneous diagnosis of an infected prosthesis.
(8) The proportion of aberrantly projecting axons appears to be quite small, and in most embryos, it was impossible to determine whether the erroneous projections originated from unbranched axons or were collateral branches of others.
(9) These results indicate that the use of serially diluted BPDE-DNA of high modification as standard competitor in the ELISA will lead to erroneous results in the measurement of adducts in DNAs modified to a low extent (biological samples).
(10) Playing, interfering with erroneous beliefs about sexual arousal, and avoiding helping the workhorse work harder are the trust of this paper.
(11) Such an analyser (Capnomac, Datex) was tested while performing two errors: a) erroneous selection of the agent on the analyser, the vaporizer being filled with the correct agent; b) total or partial filling of the vaporizer (Vapor 19, Dräger) with an incorrect agent, the analyser being set for the agent the vaporizer was specified for.
(12) In this study we show that Durkheim's interpretation of the historical evidence is erroneous: not increasing condemnation of suicide, but rather tolerance or mild aversion is the typical social response to suicide.
(13) Causes of erroneous diagnoses seemed to be multifactorial, such as inappropriate sampling, diagnosis on poor quality histology sections, lack of clinical information, lack of enough experience in FS practice of pathologists, or a combination of more than two of them, though inevitable cases showing minimal cytological and structural atypia were included.
(14) However, its use must be tempered with an appreciation of the limitations of the new technique and knowledge of the circumstances in which it may yield erroneous results.
(15) Over-emphasis of clinical features or neglect of CT findings should be discouraged as they may lead to erroneous diagnosis; 3.
(16) It also confirms that the old concept of consistency of the mandibular postural position (Thompson, 1946) is erroneous.
(17) In the conventional competitive binding assay, damaged radioligand, dissociation of the binding complex, or limitations of ligand availability may be responsible for the erroneous results.
(18) Experimental data suggest, however, that the 'inert tube' model may be erroneous for polar solvents which have a high water solubility.
(19) In two-thirds of these cases the delay was due to an erroneous diagnosis, either of cerebrovascular accident or of alcoholic intoxication.
(20) Supply rates less than removal rate will result in erroneous measurements of the constant removal rate.
Irrefutable
Definition:
(a.) Incapable of being refuted or disproved; indisputable.
Example Sentences:
(1) TV thrillers offer the forensic promise that a crime will always be solved, and a random-stop DNA swab can irrefutably convict an unsuspected murderer.
(2) "If it is irrefutably proven that the blood of innocent Muslims is spilled by the negligence of mujahideen then a penalty should be implemented in accordance with sharia," the statement said.
(3) It has been the experience of major urban EMS systems that field participation by physicians has lent irrefutable credibility to the authority of medical directors.
(4) In Professor Barnes’s report we now have irrefutable evidence that cannabis is an effective medicine for very large numbers of people,” Meacher told the Guardian.
(5) Sex-reversal of these individuals has been irrefutably demonstrated through genetic, cytogenetic, enzymatic and immunological studies.
(6) What last year’s revelations showed us was irrefutable evidence that unencrypted communications on the internet are no longer safe.
(7) Phyllis Dorothy James was born in Oxford in 1920 – a year that's doubly celebrated by crime aficionados, since it also heralded the dawning of the Golden Age of detective fiction , that interwar flowering of intricately plotted mysteries, in which the preternaturally shrewd detective is invited to pick his way through a liberal scattering of clues and red herrings, before confronting reader and murderer with his irrefutable conclusions in the final pages.
(8) Carcinogen-DNA adduct formation, presumed to constitute tumorigenic initiation, provides irrefutable evidence of exposure and some indication of biologically effective dose to target tissues.
(9) What is denied most sharply invariably turns out to be irrefutably true.
(10) "What last year's revelations showed us was irrefutable evidence that unencrypted communications on the internet are no longer safe.
(11) Clearly this World Cup has elevated this discussion to a level that can no longer be ignored and the facts are irrefutable.” Orsatti said Fifpro wants an “independently managed sideline concussion protocol”, pointing to the growing body of evidence that supports this and the experiences of other sports, in particular the NFL in the US.
(12) He asked the Russian authorities to “either release [Sentsov] or try him only for what you can prove irrefutably”.
(13) But there is at least a strong argument to make, if not an irrefutable one, that the Swedish government is able to offer precisely the guarantee that both Assange and Ecuadorean authorities have sought in order to enable him immediately to travel to Sweden to face the sex assault allegations against him.
(14) The influence of Sydenham's medicine can be seen in the following areas of Locke's philosophy: his "plain historical method"; the emphasis on observation and sensory experience instead of seeking the essence of things; the rejection of hypotheses and principles; the refusal of research into final causes and inner mechanisms; the ideal of irrefutable evidence and skepticism on the possibilities of certainty in science.
(15) New statutes concerning brain death imply that irrefutable technical evidence is readily available to diagnose brain death, that brain death is as valid a sign of death as any former criteria, and that in certain situtations brain death must be used to pronounce death.
(16) To argue anything else is to make a mockery of the legal system in general and the concept (and irrefutable value) of prisoner rehabilitation in particular.
(17) Because, while I could put forward a decent argument on why Duncan Smith is not a great conceiver, I can put forward an irrefutable one that he is a hopeless implementer.
(18) The prosecution submitted that the evidence irrefutably proved the case against the accused but the suspects pleaded not guilty, claiming they had been framed by police.
(19) The failure of Trigynon cannot be irrefutable ascribed to minocycline as unintended pregnancy also occurs while using OCs without antibiotics.
(20) The evidence that mass loss in Greenland and west Antarctica has been accelerating since the early 1990s is irrefutable.