(a.) Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years.
Example Sentences:
(1) This technique was applied to a discriminant function model using selected electroencephalographic sleep measures (sleep maintenance, percentage of rapid-eye-movement sleep, and percentage of indeterminate non-rapid-eye-movement sleep) in elderly patients with major depression or dementia of the Alzheimer type.
(2) The rapidity of obtaining the results (within one hour), the complete absence of untoward reactions to the radiopharmaceuticals, the much lower frequency of subtle or indeterminate results, the ability to render useful information in the presence of moderate jaundice and the lack of interference from overlying intestinal contents establishes these radionuclide agents as superior to both radiographic oral and intravenous cholangiography in the investigation of the acute abdomen.
(3) Two complementary tests were used: a radioimmunoprecipitation assay (RIPA) and a HIV EIA recombinant assay (ENVACOR) to check 53 of these indeterminate sera.
(4) After complete, high quality x-ray mammography, a palpable mass or nonpalpable mammographic abnormality may remain indeterminate in etiology, and ultrasound may be useful as an adjunctive diagnostic modality.
(5) For the antibody-negative specimens, 90.3% of the results were interpreted as negative, 1.3% as positive, and 8.4% as indeterminate.
(6) David Anderson QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation and a man you should always take seriously, believes there is a "small but indeterminate category of national security-related claims" in which closed hearings would be justified.
(7) Until recently it has been difficult to counsel blood donors with human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1)-indeterminate Western blot results due to a lack of information concerning the significance of this finding.
(8) Among Group 3 two target lesions could not be identified on specimen radiographs and one was indeterminate.
(9) As each microregion contains an unknown amount of embedding medium, this quantity generally lies indeterminately somewhere within the wide range between mmol of element per kg of hydrated tissue and mmol of element per kg of dehydrated tissue.
(10) Of the 12 children with continued indeterminate HIV-1 status, eight showed neither slgA nor serologic evidence of infection and four showed slgA antibodies.
(11) In the third case, which on gray-scale imaging appeared as an indeterminate cystic structure of the cord, color Doppler imaging demonstrated a complex abnormal vascular pattern suggestive of an angiomyxoma.
(12) Twenty six type strains were readily grouped, the oxidase positive, the oxidase negative, and the oxidase indeterminate groups.
(13) Clinical results included 18 cures, 3 improvements, 2 indeterminates, and 6 failures.
(14) No serum specimen collected after 2-11 months from individuals with indeterminate Western blot results was positive by EIA or Western blot.
(15) Of 198 patients who had colectomy or proctocolectomy because of inflammatory bowel disease, 52% had ulcerative colitis and 37% had Crohn's disease, 11% were indeterminable according to histologic evaluation of the surgical specimens.
(16) Physicians have generally remained passive or intransigent as the society in which they function attempts to compensate for the indeterminate nature of these clinical questions.
(17) Sixty-six patients had normal lung scans, 29 had high-probability defects suggestive of PE, and 21 had indeterminate-probability of PE.
(18) The cumulative patency rate at 5 years was 80% in the atherosclerosis group, 89% in the FMD group, and 74% in the indeterminate group.
(19) The results suggest that Chagas' disease in rhesus monkeys reproduces the acute and indeterminate phases of human Chagas' disease.
(20) In a large number of cases the initial manifestations are those of the indeterminate form and, in an even larger number of cases, of the tuberculoid pole.
Interminable
Definition:
(a.) Without termination; admitting no limit; boundless; endless; wearisomely protracted; as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings.
Example Sentences:
(1) And she had a very good point, because Twine is interminable.
(2) Re-examining Sigmund Freud's 'Analysis terminable and interminable' (1937) from the perspective of child analysis highlights the importance of developmental assessment and developmental forces in psychoanalysis.
(3) Those innocuous phrases often mask a world of private pain: tearful interviews, angry confrontations, threats of violence, shocking revelations and interminable waiting, waiting, waiting.
(4) But financial constraints were arduous and interminable, and he declined the invitation to renew his contract.
(5) For one last time, the two candidates came on stage together after weeks of facing off at what often felt like interminable hustings.
(6) ET 10 min: Am I the only person who found Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy interminably dull?
(7) A botched attempt to bully Rosie Webster into testifying at Fiz's interminable trial led to a thrilling car chase, which involved a displaced traffic cone and speeds of up to 30mph.
(8) Oscar planners have sought to shorten the sometimes interminably long show and have tried new ways to present awards in the hope of livening things up.
(9) This, my friends, is what it's really like to be a film journalist: the sweaty people carrier, the surly heavies, the interminable sitting around....
(10) On the one hand an interminable mud-slinging saga featuring at its centre a scarcely credible pair.
(11) But, despite interminable legal proceedings, their efforts have so far come to nothing, partly because studies commissioned by the UK government have concluded that a resettlement programme on what is officially known as the British Indian Ocean Territory was just not feasible.
(12) The debate over regional anesthesia and general anesthesia with respect to relative risk in different classes of patients will probably be interminable until studies addressing the issue begin to specify the treatment protocols more carefully and to control as many variables as possible.
(13) Radiohead's interminable promotion of their patchy debut, Pablo Honey, would have tried anyone's patience.
(14) At first we all thought it was a reaction to the near-fatal road accident of his younger daughter Kate - he and Mari had watched over her as she lay in what seemed an interminable coma.
(15) The updates on the Kickstarter page are a catalogue of little disasters and triumphs: broken moulds, patchy GPS reception, interminable Chinese holidays and, finally, huge stacks of boxes ready to ship.
(16) The question is raised as to whether the analysis of the generation of sound by a laser beam moving over a water surface at the sound speed c for an interminable time period requires consideration of nonlinear effects.
(17) The committee said successive federation chairmen have become "enmired in interminable internecine power-struggles that would not have been out of place in a medieval court".
(18) It certainly seemed that way, and it was gardening, after all, that got him through those seemingly interminable years on Robben Island.
(19) There was no statistically significant difference between the ICD users and nonusers as stratified by SAECG classification regardless of whether or not the interminate studies were included or excluded from the analysis.
(20) Freud pondered the nature of termination as well as incomplete, completed, periodic, and interminable analysis.