(2) Psychiatry is criticized for imprecise diagnosis, conceptual vagaries, jargon, therapeutic impotence and class bias.
(3) In percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) the relationships between transstenotic pressure gradient, diameter stenosis, and lesion length are imprecisely known.
(4) The potency of this product is determined by in-vivo bioassay in hypophysectomized rats, which is imprecise, costly and invasive, and there have been suggestions that it could safely be replaced with in-vitro or physico-chemical alternatives.
(5) Total assay imprecision (CV) varied between 11% and 21%.
(6) Two reading passages, one with nasal consonants and one without, were tape-recorded for 72 subjects: 34 selected as having precise articulation and 38 selected as having imprecise articulation.
(7) However, because of imprecise definitions of terms, these studies show noncomparable results.
(8) The present study challenges the previous reports, suggesting that these findings emerged because of imprecise methodologic procedures.
(9) We investigated the possibility that the spatial imprecision of amblyopic eyes can be accounted for by the relative insensitivity to contrast that has been documented for these eyes.
(10) This expert system, by using the fuzzy and certainty factor concepts, is able to handle imprecise and incomplete medical knowledge which has become informative.
(11) In this report, computer simulation is used to evaluate and compare quality-control rules designed to detect increases in within-run or between-run imprecision.
(12) The total imprecision (1 standard deviation) of a single measurement is about 15% of the value for each analyte.
(13) John Rawles's criticism of QALYs are seen as being both imprecise and largely unhelpful.
(14) The within-run imprecision of all electrodes was excellent.
(15) Imprecise definitions of these complications of necrotizing pancreatitis make inter-institutional comparisons of previously identified data dubious.
(16) It is concluded that tests for detection of SGA babies remain imprecise in practice, gestational weight alone correlates poorly with fetal well-being, and the need remains for sensitive tests to detect babies with genuine morbidity.
(17) Numerous clinicians criticise the insufficiency and imprecision, and the incoherency of the analyses of biological calculations by the usual clinical methods and thus frequently avoid prescribing such an examination.
(18) We conclude that inconsistent findings on the effect of menopausal status in the association of breast cancer with some reproductive factors are partly due to statistical imprecision and differential misclassification bias associated with different age-based or menses-based definitions of menopause.
(19) Using referral as a criterion, the question related to potential demand displayed a sensitivity of only 53%, probably because of the imprecise wording, while the specificity appeared to be 82%.
(20) Even admitting some imprecision for this estimate, the remarkable differences at the structural gene level shown by the species analyzed, suggest they had an early origin.
Inexact
Definition:
(a.) Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this paper a fuzzy model of inexact reasoning in medicine is developed.
(2) Even though conflict diagnosis is an inexact process, the thoughtful critique of conflict experiences can result in a better understanding of issues, and help guide a more skilled and effective response.
(3) However, a 32-base pair element that is repeated in gene 1 is present only as a single inexact copy in gene 2.
(4) Furthermore, the dating methods used can be inexact, thrown off by hundreds of years because of a fish-rich diet, for example.
(5) It is clear that the pitfalls are due to the inexact interpretation of parameters used.
(6) The critical period for exposure appears to be two to five weeks postconception, although this is clinically inexact.
(7) In previous decades, high caries rates were so prevalent that the dental profession could risk having inexact projections because overwhelming need and demand existed.
(8) A review of both past and present psychiatric literature reveals that the concept of hypochondriasis is inexact and confusing.
(9) This DVD sales forecasting is, however, an inexact science.
(10) Crack use was also associated with GUD (OR = 15.15, 95% CI = 3.27-inexact) and multiple simultaneous STDs (OR = 13.87, 95% CI = 4.62-inexact).
(11) The role of the psychiatrist is to proffer a relevant opinion while nevertheless realizing that the inexact nature of the science limits the use such an opinion may have.
(12) Peritoneal lavage is diagnostically inexact in patients with diaphragmatic rupture.
(13) The determination of the edentulous interridge dimension is at best an inexact process.
(14) In order to master fuzziness and uncertainty in solving human problems, an expert system shell SYSTEM Z-II which can handle both exact and inexact reasoning has been successfully developed.
(15) In visual valuation of the blood glucose concentrations by means of Haemo-Glucotest 20-800 with increasing blood glucose concentration an increasing inexactness is to be stated, whereas Glucosignal is characterized by more favourable parameters of quality.
(16) In the cell lines some specificities show a suggestive but inexact correlation with HLA-D locus factors.
(17) The current classification of cavitary optic disc anomalies including the morphologically related entities--optic nerve pit, morning glory disc anomaly, coloboma of the optic nerve, and retinochoroidal coloboma involving the optic nerve--is inexact and confusing.
(18) The mutagenicity of chromium as tested in the bacterial strain of Salmonella typhimurium (strain TA 104) was decreased when tested without metabolic activation with the addition of leachate (of inexact analysis) from a waste site.
(19) Botha, however, says it is an inexact procedure, with all sorts of factors which can change the process, and thus affect calculations of time of death.
(20) The imprecision arises both from data that are inexact or incomplete and from the use of ecological principles that are sometimes less than fully reliable and may be conflicting.