(a.) To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.
(a.) To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false.
(a.) To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word.
(a.) To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow.
(a.) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment.
(a.) To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
(a.) To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document.
(v. i.) To tell lies; to violate the truth.
Example Sentences:
(1) But most instances are more mundane: the majority of fraud cases in recent years have emerged from scientists either falsifying images – deliberately mislabelling scans and micrographs – or fabricating or altering their recorded data.
(2) "To falsify returns once is once too many – to falsify 252 times represents a pattern of behaviour which should lead to a full review," Dorrell said.
(3) Then there were attempts to falsify votes," she said.
(4) Unusual features included the illness chosen, the father as the parent falsifying illness, his failure to pursue unnecessary investigations and treatment, and the ease with which he relinquished the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis.
(5) But retweet if you remember destabilizing a region based on falsified claims that everyone in America needed to be afraid of a mushroom cloud, fave if you don’t understand causation.
(6) Greste, Fahmy and Mohamed were accused of aiding Egypt’s banned Muslim Brotherhood, and of falsifying news reports in order to undermine Egyptian national security.
(7) These models generate falsifiable predictions about the pattern of risk in relatives of affected individuals.
(8) Wood was brought before the employment tribunal after a third volunteer told PHE, the body that designed the screening process, that Wood had falsified Cafferkey’s temperature on the form she had to fill out on arrival at Heathrow.
(9) Last week, immigration minister Jason Kenney announced that 3,100 people would have their Canadian citizenship revoked for hiring immigration consultants to falsify their documents.
(10) We conclude that global retests should be preferred to selective ones so that the perimetric results are not falsified.
(11) In the runup to the election, analysts predicted that falsifying votes cast from home (citizens can request electoral workers to make home visits) would be the most likely method of cheating, but the percentage of such votes was reportedly small.
(12) In June 2012, the month that Butt was sentenced to 15 years in jail, the DSI smashed another major counterfeiting syndicate, this one accused of issuing some 3,000 falsified passports and visas over the five years of its existence, two of them to Iranians convicted of carrying out a series of botched bomb attacks in Bangkok in February 2012, supposedly aimed at Israeli diplomats .
(13) Educators in health-related fields are particularly sensitive to academic misconduct because undergraduate students who falsify academic work in such fields can go on to endanger the health and well being of the very people they are meant to assist.
(14) But news that two of the passengers on the flight were travelling on passports stolen in Thailand – one belonging to Italian Luigi Maraldi, who lost it last August when he left it as collateral for a motorbike rented in Phuket, and the other to Austrian Christian Kozel, who reported his lost in the same area some 18 months earlier – has focused attention on the country's booming trade in stolen and falsified passports.
(15) Two experiments on whispered and mouthed lists, with or without simultaneous broadband noise, falsified expectations derived from the theory of precategorical acoustic storage.
(16) They say this falsifies that Australopithecus sediba is the ancestor of Homo.
(17) Doctors were allegedly recorded admitting they were prepared to falsify paperwork to arrange the illegal abortions.
(18) Preoperative application of a bromocriptine therapy may falsify the results too.
(19) Illicit-drug users may attempt to falsify results by in vitro adulteration of specimens.
(20) Thinktank malefactors reap great sums from the aggrieved heartland or from industries looking to build a canon of falsified data, and Congress and the attendant lobbying is a helluva racket.
Massage
Definition:
(n.) A rubbing or kneading of the body, especially when performed as a hygienic or remedial measure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, carotid sinus massage and, to some extent, isoprenaline administration appear simple bedside tests which may be helpful in identifying the underlying mechanism of sick sinus syndrome.
(2) Two levels of massage were quantified and defined as light massage (LM) and deep massage (DM).
(3) It imitates the conventional percussion massage of the thorax by introducing high-frequency gas oscillations (300 impulses per minute) into the tracheobronchial system.
(4) Ventricular fibrillation was then induced and, after predetermined downtimes ranging from 5 to 60 minutes, thoracotomy was performed, and open-chest bimanual cardiac massage was started.
(5) The relationship of the electrocardiogram to clinical and pathological results was evaluated and indicates that (1) properly managed resuscitation (manual massage and defibrillation) is not a serious hazard, (2) ether in 100% oxygen is the agent of choice for surface-induced deep hypothermia with prolonged circulatory arrest, and (3) halothane may be used in a procedure combining surface cooling and perfusion rewarming if given in a mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
(6) The catheter is extracted during massage of the prostate and finally EPS is aspirated through the internal lumen of the catheter.
(7) Intraocular pressure should be controlled via applanation tonometry, beginning with the fourth day after goniotrepanation, for a period of about three weeks, for early detection of postoperative pressure increases which can occur occasionally, so that they may be treated by digital massage of the bulb.
(8) Rabbit aorta contracting substance (RCS) and prostaglandins were released from guinea-pig isolated perfused lungs by gentle massage and also by infusion of Prosparol.2.
(9) It would appear that if initiation of open chest cardiac massage is delayed for more than 20 min from the onset of cardiac arrest, little or no successful outcome can be expected.
(10) Digital massage often can be used to lower intraocular pressure (IOP) after trabeculectomy or trabeculectomy combined with extracapsular cataract extraction and intraocular lens implantation.
(11) We investigated the possibility of significant corneal trauma (as revealed by slit lamp observation of the fluorescein instilled eye), and massage effects following determination of intraocular pressure with the A. O. Non-Contact tonometer (NCT).
(12) They have an exercise yard, computers, televisions, art classes and even massage on request.
(13) Massage of the carotid sinus was performed during sinus rhythm, during transesophageal atrial stimulation and during transcutaneous ventricle stimulation.
(14) To cap all this, it appears that Tesco may have massaged its bottom line by a not inconsequential quarter of a billion pounds.
(15) Connective tissue massage produces relief of pain and increases microcirculation in a number of vascular beds.
(16) (It is very respectful to massage the pig after it is dead.)
(17) Our data did not show intracardiac aspiration to be superior to either external cardiac massage of left lateral decubitus position despite the shorter resuscitation time.
(18) The follow-up of 70 patients with trauma-related locomotor disorders proved that breathing exercises, vibratory massage, chest heparin electrophoresis, drug inhalations early after the injury can be effective in prevention and treatment of pulmonary complications.
(19) He had normal routine testing, holter monitoring, head CT scan, carotid sinus massage, valsalva maneuver etc.
(20) Skin massage elicited a marked proliferative response in skin but was not a promoting stimulus.