(n.) Furnished with fuzz; having fuzz; like fuzz; as, the fuzzy skin of a peach.
Example Sentences:
(1) The surface of all cells was covered by a fuzzy coat consisting of fine hairs or bristles.
(2) Real people, by contrast, care more about their jobs, where they live, and the fuzzy stuff of security, happiness and a sense of belonging.
(3) In order to incorporate concordant patents, fuzzy subsets are employed, with the number of attempts required to achieve transitive closure being the values for comparison.
(4) A fuzzy coat was observed on EB located in the HPMN vacuoles only in the presence of specific antibody.
(5) The DNA from the two largest C. albicans chromosomes, which was estimated to be at least 5-10Mbp in size, ran somewhat anomalously, giving fuzzy bands which did not migrate in the direction of the average electric field.
(6) In this paper a fuzzy model of inexact reasoning in medicine is developed.
(7) The concept of fuzzy sets was chosen for its ability to represent classes of objects that are vaguely described from the measured data.
(8) This expert system, by using the fuzzy and certainty factor concepts, is able to handle imprecise and incomplete medical knowledge which has become informative.
(9) The Bretton Woods Project, which monitors the work of the bank, said: "While it is welcome to have the World Bank talking about 'inequality' instead of fuzzy language on 'shared prosperity', the bank is putting more of its money into the financial sector than any other sector.
(10) It was only by the merest chance that a visiting medic had been up on a balcony that day and recorded a fuzzy minute of the action on his mobile phone.
(11) Data of case-control study of 241 cases of stomach cancer were analyzed by method of risk analysis of fuzzy states.
(12) CADIAG-2 employs fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic to formalize medical entities and relationships.
(13) Perivascular cuffings of inflammatory cells and large cytoplasmic inclusions of fuzzy nucleocapsids were found in the brain and spinal cord.
(14) To improve the definitions, eliminate overlapping diagnostic categories, and sharpen the fuzzy boundaries that contribute substantially to limited reproducibility, we suggest: (1) the categories of astrocytoma nos, fibrillary astrocytoma, and protoplasmic astrocytoma be collapsed into a single category of astrocytoma; (2) the diagnostic category of desmoplastic medulloblastoma be combined with medulloblastoma; and (3) the criteria for anaplasia should be further refined to include quantification of critical histologic features, e.g., agreed upon operational definitions for amount of cell density, number of mitoses and pleomorphism for anaplastic astrocytoma and anaplastic ependymoma.
(15) These crossbridges were revealed in thin sections as fuzzy filamentous structures between MT and NF.
(16) Uncertainty management for the evaluation of evidence based on linguistic and conceptual data is taking advantage of developments in the Dempster-Shafer (DS) theory of evidence, possibility theory and fuzzy logic.
(17) Though he conceded that Arab leaders saw his creation, Israel’s secret Dimona plant in the Negev Desert, as “a worrisome fuzzy deterrent”, Peres the politician enjoyed creating such deliberate ambiguities.
(18) The presence of periodic acid-Schiff's positive material in this region suggests that the fuzzy coat also contains carbohydrate.
(19) Investigations of nine chemicals in 'fuzzy' rats, rhesus monkeys, and man provide data which are consistent with a general theory of outward transcutaneous chemical migration.
(20) ECs possess endothelial projections and caveolae as well as a fuzzy coat, or glycocalyx.
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Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) ), nosological frontiers are still unclear and accordingly justify a comparative serological study of M.M., W.M., and B.M.G.
(2) However, the effects of such large-scale calvarial repositioning on subsequent brain mass growth trajectories and compensatory cranio-facial growth changes is unclear.
(3) Thus it is unclear how a language learner determines whether German even has a regular plural, and if so what form it takes.
(4) It is unclear if the changes in high-energy phosphates during endotoxin shock cause irreversibility.
(5) It’s unclear too whether Google will continue to pay Mozilla to be the default browser in countries outside the US, Russia and China when the current deal ends in December.
(6) Factors contributing to a more aggressive form of carcinoma are unclear and require further study.
(7) Two people were injured and taken to hospital, but it is still unclear who was responsible.
(8) The benefit of routine preoperative CT in patients with otherwise resectable colonic or rectal cancer remains unclear.
(9) Whether we are dealing with true Osborn waves is unclear.
(10) Many governments try to protect their tax base through national blacklists based on criteria that are often unclear and inconsistently applied.
(11) Although the mechanism(s) of Vb depolarization in OMCD is unclear at the moment, this depolarization suggests that OMCD is responsive to peritubular pH alterations.
(12) Poor prognostic factors included associated chondromalacia and an unclear preoperative diagnosis.
(13) Because the mechanism whereby Shigella dysenteriae I enterotoxin induces intestinal secretion is unclear, the effect of this toxin on adenylate cyclase activity in rabbit ileal mucosa was studied under various in vitro and in vivo conditions.
(14) The factors predisposing to and complicating acute renal failure (ARF) in the medical intensive care unit (ICU), and their relative influence on outcome during ARF are unclear.
(15) Preliminary studies using amino acid and ion inhibition studies suggested that transporter I was a system ASC-type carrier, transporter III a system L carrier, while the nature of transporter II was unclear.
(16) However the mechanisms responsible for these phenomena are unclear.
(17) Hyperferritinemia, an unclear mechanism, is frequently observed in chronic alcoholics.
(18) Previously, we found resting metabolic rate increased at high altitude but the mechanism and consequences of this increase were unclear.
(19) The mechanism behind this increased thyroid volume is unclear, as most patients had normal serum thyrotropin levels and no thyroid autoimmunity.
(20) These data notwithstanding, the role of SIV genetic variation in the pathogenesis of AIDS in monkeys remains unclear.