(adv.) Not correctly; inaccurately; not exactly; as, a writing incorrectly copied; testimony incorrectly stated.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
(2) Only 1.1 percent of birth weights would have been incorrectly classified into low or normal birth weight categories based on maternal reporting.
(3) The diagnosis of porphyria was overlooked in some as the symptoms may mimic those of other acute illnesses, so that incomplete or incorrect death certificates have been issued.
(4) That was incorrect: for example, the Isle of Wight has never had a female MP.
(5) Depending on the statement, between 26 and 54% of the interpretations were incorrect.
(6) A detailed morphologic analysis demonstrated that two of these six cases were incorrectly diagnosed as being pure mucinous carcinomas--they were actually of the mixed type.
(7) The Liverpool manager was incensed by Lee Mason's performance at the Etihad Stadium on Boxing Day, when a 2-1 defeat cost his team the Premier League leadership and Raheem Sterling had a first half goal disallowed for an incorrect offside call.
(8) Twenty-three percent employed no birth control and 27 percent used diaphragms, the majority either inconsistently or incorrectly.
(9) Children in the first group were provided training by their parents that was intended to focus the child's attention on consonants in syllables or words and to teach discrimination between correctly and incorrectly articulated consonants.
(10) With respect to malignant tumours, in 1961-70 clinical diagnoses were correct in 37% of cases and incorrect for 26%; in 1978-87, 47% were correct and 15% incorrect.
(11) The presence and absence of the firing were correlated with the correct and incorrect performance of the task, respectively.
(12) The products obtained upon galactanase digestion of the soybean arabianin-galactan demonstrate that the earlier proposal concerning the structure of this polysaccharide must be incorrect.
(13) A total of $4975 of patient charges was associated with incorrectly obtained SDCs or inappropriate actions taken on SDC results.
(14) We deeply regret any instance which led to the Financial Ombudsman Service receiving incorrect or incomplete information from us.” Clydesdale is now reviewing all PPI complaints handled before August 2014 and will pay redress to any affected customers.
(15) It is proposed that the intermediates have an incorrectly formed beta sheet whose maturation to the structure found in the native conformation is one of the slow steps in folding.
(16) Bias is any systematic error in the design, conduct, analysis, or interpretation of a study that tends to produce an incorrect assessment of the nature of the association between an exposure or risk factor and the occurrence of disease.
(17) Therefore, the acronym NAALADase seems to be incorrect, and peptidase activity against NAAG will be used throughout this manuscript when referring to the enzyme that cleaves NAAG and whose activity is inhibited by quisqualate and beta-NAAG.
(18) The obvious questions, (1) which tree is the correct one, or (2) both trees can be incorrect, and (3) how can we explain such an evolutionary pattern, are discussed on the basis of our limited knowledge of factors that influence the clocklike behavior of biological macromolecules.
(19) Exceptions to HLA association in GH are rare and can be explained by: (1) incorrect HLA serotyping, (2) chromosomal recombination, or (3) rare homozygous-homozygous mating.
(20) Misfolded models were constructed by introducing incorrect side chains onto polypeptide backbones: side chains of the alpha-helical hemerythrin were modeled on the beta-sheeted backbone of immunoglobulin VL domain, whereas those of the VL domain were similarly modeled on the hemerythrin backbone.
Misunderstand
Definition:
(v. t.) To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(2) Illustration by Andrzej Krause Photograph: Guardian The Foreign Office attributed the forgotten boxes to "an earlier misunderstanding about contents" and stated that there needed to be an "improvement in archive management".
(3) Much criticism, though, is based on genuine misunderstanding or a wild misrepresentation of reality – even in the pages of prestigious newspapers.
(4) The Florida senator said: “This simplistic notion that ‘leave Assad there because he’s a brutal killer, but he’s not as bad as what’s going to follow him’ is a fundamental and simplistic and dangerous misunderstanding of the reality of the region.” It’s unclear though how much the actual debate about policy between the two senators stood out from the political carnival surrounding them.
(5) In this way, they will be better able to avoid misunderstandings and head off potential conflicts.
(6) Following references to the development of the discipline and of the possible misunderstandings involved in an interpretation of the term "integration", the author makes reference to the dialogue-like structure of integration.
(7) "Cameron's interpretation of Merkel's stance is partially based on a misunderstanding," said Stefan Kornelius, foreign editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung and author of an authorised Merkel biography.
(8) And she thought these treatments would cure her – a common misunderstanding of how addiction works.
(9) This will mean that if you are sacked because your boss takes against you or because of a misunderstanding, you will be on your own unless you can afford to pay for a lawyer or you are a member of a trade union.
(10) So we started asking them ridiculous questions about being single," says Lucas, "and the sheer number of misunderstandings about each other's lives felt like comedic material."
(11) Various kinds of false reports are defined, described, and grouped according to type: misunderstandings, misreporting, distortion through illness, distortion by design, professional error, misrepresentation, and a grouping of less common instances.
(12) A series of misadventures and misunderstandings lead him to Calgary, where the whole Messiah mix-up reaches its painful, and tuneful, climax.
(13) The risks involved in the misunderstanding of such an association are not without danger for the patient, particularly the risk of severe complication of possible coronary or carotid lesions, threatening survival; from this derives the necessity to decide automatically for a minimum of pre-surgery vascular investigations in the case of patients suffering from lung cancer.
(14) Following a thorough medical workup, the physician can best discharge his or her responsibility to the patient by paying attention to these possible misunderstandings.
(15) For London's mayor had not only long refused to meet the RMT leader, but only a month before rather encouraged the public to misunderstand him by making hay with Crow's supposedly hypocritical cruise trip and accusing him of "holding a gun" to the head of the capital ?
(16) Consequently, a misunderstanding of roles and distortion in perception, for whatever reason, may influence the outcome of care.
(17) One successful method to overcome these misunderstandings is education.
(18) I cannot risk a whole game, I am a long-term coach.” Puzzled glances around the room alerted the manager to the possibility of a misunderstanding.
(19) 176, 137--142] have no real meaning because of a serious methodological misunderstanding by the authors.
(20) But there is that fear that there could be that one moment of misunderstanding with a young man of colour and that young man may never come back.” De Blasio’s comments were delivered against a backdrop of continued protests in many cities against recent incidents of police brutality and charges of a lack of accountability for police officers who have killed civilians.