What's the difference between inconclusive and unconclusive?
Inconclusive
Definition:
(a.) Not conclusive; leading to no conclusion; not closing or settling a point in debate, or a doubtful question; as, evidence is inconclusive when it does not exhibit the truth of a disputed case in such a manner as to satisfy the mind, and put an end to debate or doubt.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lactoferrin test in positive in 5, inconclusive in 6, and negative in 41 cases, and in the 9 cases of non-CCP pancreatic diseases it is negative.
(2) Inconclusive tests were 10% and 11%, respectively, but in no patient were both scintigraphy and ultrasonography inconclusive.
(3) Sixteen patients (7%) with inconclusive diagnosis had symptoms only of SI and UI but no objective findings.
(4) Random fecal alpha 1-antitrypsin determinations seem to provide a reliable, although not directly quantitative, measure of the intestinal activity among patients with Crohn's disease, especially when other methods may be inconclusive.
(5) Its results are therefore inconclusive with respect to sigmoidoscopy and should not be used as evidence either for or against sigmoidoscopic screening.
(6) Dig-ASO testing correctly reclassified 10 individuals who had tested inconclusively on analysis for leukocyte beta-hexosaminidase A activity; 3 were identified as carriers and 7 as noncarriers.
(7) The effects on Ca++ uptake of added cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) alone or with rabbit or bovine protein kinase were inconclusive.
(8) Chemicals giving negative or inconclusive results were then retested using other common in vitro mutagenesis conditions.
(9) Aperture size was modulated during flight on some trials in an attempt to test between these possibilities, but the results were inconclusive.
(10) The only satisfactory trial of this nature to date was done in Helsinki, and its results were inconclusive.
(11) Of these 21 were positive, 11 were inconclusive and nine were negative.
(12) The presence of symptom-specific stress-related psychophysiological responses is more commonly observed, and the evidence on return to baseline is at this time inconclusive.
(13) The data for linkage between CRI-0136 and the ADPKD locus in our family were inconclusive.
(14) Kinetic studies proved inconclusive in that a rapid equilibrium between an oxidized enzyme--allene carbanion pair and reduced enzyme--keto acid pair would make these two species kinetically equivalent.
(15) In the face of an inconclusive result in the first attempt, biopsy was repeated for upto three times.
(16) Although clinical improvements occurred in the case of variegate porphyria, the results were inconclusive for reasons given.
(17) In all but two patients, one or more inconclusive techniques [oral cholecystography, ultrasonography, intravenous cholangiography, or endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ERC)] had been employed prior to FNC.
(18) Previous smaller studies have given rise to conflicting or inconclusive results, but the reduced conception rates in the partners of oligospermic men in this large study suggests that unexplained female factors, discussed in the paper, contribute to their infertility in up to a third of patients.
(19) In 4 subjects the obstructions disappeared after both belladonna and the placebo; the children were considered to have an "inconclusive response".
(20) Of the remaining 98 examinations, 4 (4.1%) were inconclusive, 73 tumors (74.5%) were correctly staged, 16 tumors (16.3%) were overstaged and 5 tumors (5.1%) understaged.
Unconclusive
Definition:
(a.) Inconclusive.
Example Sentences:
(1) In two cases MRI findings were unconclusive due to movement artifacts of the eye globe.
(2) examination was unconclusive for a possible relationship between rhinological findings, mode of breathing, sinusitis, size of tonsils, nasal airway resistance and tubal function.
(3) The remaining four tests gave a false positive, a true negative, a probably false negative, and one unconclusive result.
(4) Splenic biopsy might be unconclusive after protracted cytostatic treatment or splenic X-ray therapy.
(5) Laboratory and radiograph tests are mostly unconclusive.
(6) The results of the immunosuppressive treatment in two patients with myocarditis were unconclusive.
(7) The urinary sediment was poor and the immunologic investigations unconclusive.
(8) The indications of allergenic etiology concerning A, have been divided into three categories: certain anamnesis (CA), suggestive anamnesis (SA) and unconclusive anamnesis (UA).