(v. t. & i.) To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion of; to misjudge; to misapprehend.
Example Sentences:
Misinterpret
Definition:
(v. t.) To interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.
Example Sentences:
(1) During interview and chart audit, the physicians were found to have consistently underestimated, misinterpreted, or neglected psychiatric aspects of care among a majority of patients in the study.
(2) Automatic analysis of oculopneumoplethysmography recordings might minimize the risks of misinterpretation and might improve the clinical significance of the Gee-oculopneumoplethysmography test.
(3) A 68-year-old man with known villous adenoma of the rectum had recurrent severe episodes of dehydration and electrolyte loss, misinterpreted as being due to "chronic pyelonephritic".
(4) Such changes may be misinterpreted as diagnostic of basal or squamous epithelioma.
(5) The similar densities and anatomical appearances on cross section scans of these diseases probably account for this misinterpretation.
(6) This phenomenon is due to the presence of extensive dental restorations and should not be misinterpreted in terms of deficient 99mTc-pertechnetate uptake in the minor salivary glands of the oral cavity.
(7) However, it must be stated that no malignant lymphomas were demonstrated in our patients, although the disease can give rise to very pronounced, possibly transitory, lesions in the lymphatic tissue, easily misinterpreted as malignant.
(8) Vascular lesions of the shoulder may be misinterpreted as one of the more familiar shoulder abnormalities by a treating physician.
(9) Despite the propagation of imaging techniques in recent years, brain neoplasms are still identified too late in many cases, not least because of a disregard or misinterpretation of early psychiatric symptoms.
(10) By sonography only 10 out of these 326 were misinterpretated as being pathological, 2 by urography.
(11) Careful testing and evaluation of each antibody are necessary to prevent misinterpretation.
(12) In the other case follicular cervicitis was correctly diagnosed by the trained cytotechnologists but frequently misinterpreted by the students.
(13) Tools such as the PCC should be used judiciously, given the possible abuses and misinterpretations of hospital quality scores.
(14) In 12 patients, MR demonstrated neither an intracardiac mass nor an anatomic variant that was likely to have been misinterpreted as a mass on the echocardiogram.
(15) The consistency of this classification was tested by two Brisbane pathologists who indicated that we had misinterpreted some cases of superficial spreading malignant melanoma as lentigo maligna melanoma.
(16) We believe that some previously published data might have been misinterpreted by neglecting the important differences between 'early' and 'late' CFU-S assays.
(17) In older patients the finding could be misinterpreted as evidence of extracranial cerebrovascular disease, but clinical considerations should obviate unnecessary neuroradiological diagnostic procedures.
(18) The personnel misinterpreted the patients' defences and considered the patients to be non-suicidal, capable and even strong.
(19) He added that the relatively low number of people who moved on to take out a Green Deal loan is open to misinterpretation.
(20) Hammond sought to blame the BBC for misinterpreting an Isaf statement issued on Monday, but the MoD conceded the statement might have been unclear.