(a.) Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable.
(a.) Not liable to fail, deceive, or disappoint; indubitable; sure; certain; as, infallible evidence; infallible success; an infallible remedy.
(a.) Incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals. See Papal infallibility, under Infallibility.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a waspish summary in which he noted that, while Pope Francis "may have renounced his own infallibility", Margaret Thatcher never did.
(2) I asked if that would not make life easier, since it removed any issue of the author's infallibility?
(3) And yet many newspapers do persist in pretending they are largely infallible."
(4) The bleeding time is not an infallible indication of aspirin or other non steroidal antiinflammatory drugs platelet defect.
(5) Although these criteria are helpful in most instances, they are not infallible.
(6) Countless Americans believe in a purity and infallibility of our right to bear arms, and therefore are quick to find fault with those who misuse the right.
(7) However, these physiologic measurements are not infallible; their accuracy is largely dependent on the careful set-up and use of the measuring instruments.
(8) Testing hearing in baby clinics was easy to implement and economical but not infallible.
(9) The electrocardiogram was invaluable, though by no means infallible.
(10) Current imaging techniques are not infallible and cannot confer an absolute sense of security when seeming to indicate a nonextruded protruding disk.
(11) The results suggest that, although far from infallible, CA 125 is a useful marker for ovarian cancer.
(12) People have come to believe that doctors should never make mistakes and courts have reinforced this absurd requirement of infallibility by punishing breaches with settlements way out of proportion to actual damages".
(13) We conclude that a long acting glucocorticoid is useful in the management of menstrual abnormalities in adolescent patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia who have attained their adult height, and that monitoring the concentration of serum T in them is a valuable but not infallible procedure for assessing the effectiveness of therapy.
(14) He continued to write about art, but related it more closely to his personal experience, and though he never ceased to believe in the perfectibility of society, he edged towards an understanding of Marxism as an analytical tool rather than an infallible cure for the ills of the world.
(15) And yet many newspapers do persist in pretending they are largely infallible.
(16) He has a vast and devoted following of people who do not question his infallibility.
(17) Our knowledge of the wrist is incomplete, and our diagnostic tools are not infallible, but we must continue to try to sort out these difficult wrist problems.
(18) Although there is no infallible method of avoiding interpretive errors it is suggested that the development of good viewing habits, including an orderly and systematic appraisal of each film, coupled with a physiologically oriented approach to film interpretation will reduce mistakes significantly.
(19) Even then, it was obvious that Facetti had a prodigious knowledge of art history and an infallible instinct for the way a single image might capture the essence of a book.
(20) The first is that King and Trichet, eminent though they may be, are not infallible.
Infectious
Definition:
(a.) Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.
(a.) Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing.
(a.) Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.
(a.) Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
(2) Although antihistamines are widely used for symptomatic treatment of seasonal (allergic) rhinitis, the role of histamines in the pathogenesis of infectious rhinitis is not clear.
(3) Tumour necrosis factor (TNF), a polypeptide produced by mononuclear phagocytes, has been implicated as an important mediator of inflammatory processes and of clinical manifestations in acute infectious diseases.
(4) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
(5) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
(6) Although they were praised in the last five years as the most efficient drugs against cancer and infectious diseases, no great success was clinically and experimentally reported in the past.
(7) It is clear that before general release of a new living feline infectious enteritis vaccine, there must be satisfactory evidence that concurrent infection will not affect the safety of the modified antigen.In cats infected with feline infectious enteritis there appears to be a short period, coinciding with the onset of leucopaenia, during which they are highly infectious.
(8) Infectious virus was recovered 3 years after infection from selected tissues of 12 of 17 CAEV(63)-infected goats and 11 of 18 CAEV(Co)-infected goats.
(9) These included: 1) association of infectious processes with other laboratory results; 2) a feeling of integration with the patient and health care team; and 3) the introduction of medical terminology.
(10) The diagnosis of acute infectious enterocolitis was rejected.
(11) However, blood with low HBeAg levels and free of detectable polymerase activity can still be infectious, since the polymerase reaction is rather insensitive compared to the radioimmunological HBeAg determination.
(12) It is anomalous that the world is equipped with global funds to finance action on infectious diseases and climate change, but not humanitarian crises.
(13) Rapid, on-site detection of chlamydial antigen in male FVU would shorten the infectious period by hastening diagnosis and treatment.
(14) The use of multifactorial experiment design, a model of infectious processes and immunomodulators alone or in combination with antibiotics is implied.
(15) The authors report the clinical case of an 18-year-old patient who presented with a symptomatic mass in the left upper quadrant 6 months after having infectious mononucleosis.
(16) A retrospective study of autopsy-verified fatal pulmonary embolism at a department of infectious diseases was carried out, covering a four-year period (1980-83).
(17) The p30 proteins of murine viruses also contain a second discrete set of antigenic determinants related to those in infectious primate viruses and endogenous porcine viruses, but not detected in the feline leukemia virus group.
(18) The organisms are transmitted transovarially, diaplacentally, via endometrium, before or after implantation, via amnion or by the semen when ascending through the infectious environment.
(19) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
(20) The central nervous system of the animals sacrificed in the time course of the infectious process was studied by light and luminescent microscopy.