(1) Various misconceptions about dietary carcinogens, pesticide residues, and cancer causation are discussed.
(2) Emphasizing this trend, we present our current approaches to managing retinoblastoma based on our experience with 324 patients, outlining our indications and pointing out a number of misconceptions about the role of enucleation, photocoagulation, cryotherapy, and radiotherapy in treating this condition.
(3) His views also suggest some serious misconceptions about teaching and learning in general.
(4) This conclusion is based on a misconception: that science graduates are limited to a career in science.
(5) We hope that this rejoinder clarifies some of the misconceptions that may arise from the Gross and Schuch article and that physical therapists consider very carefully the rationale for any type of exercise program for post-polio patients.
(6) The present research seems to confirm the fact that misconcepts induced by inadequacity of social status are more frequent and more intensive in patients with coronary troubles.
(7) This review considers the biophysics of penetrating missile wounds, highlights some of the more common misconceptions and seeks to reconcile the conflicting and confusing management doctrines that are promulgated in the literature-differences that arise not only from two scenarios, peace and war, but also from misapprehensions of the wounding process.
(8) His avoidance of the circumlocutions favoured by most politicians led to a popular misconception that he is a straight shooter.
(9) Larson said misconceptions about Tubman had flourished in part because she was a “malleable icon”.
(10) Several myths and misconceptions feature prominently amid the instant reaction and punditry.
(11) There’s a great misconception that coming into care [work] is easy.” When the company advertised job roles as “care assistant” rather than “care worker”, it found that more people were interested, as the misconceptions about care work were left behind.
(12) Although participants had a fairly accurate understanding of the causes of HIV infection, modes of transmission and preventive measures, many myths and misconceptions existed.
(13) It was discovered that an overwhelming majority of parents had gross misconceptions about febrile convulsions, and took inappropriate or even harmful actions in an attempt to control the convulsions.
(14) Wide spread fears and misconceptions about condoms existed, e.g., condoms stay in the vagina.
(15) The study demonstrated that many patients with psoriasis have gaps in their knowledge of the disease or misconceptions that could be obstacles to effective treatment and disease prevention.
(16) Despite a common misconception, bronchogenic carcinoma of the left upper lobe frequently metastasizes to lymph nodes not only in the anterior mediastinum (para-aortic and subaortic) but also in the superior mediastinum.
(17) We have attempted to dispel many of the myths and misconceptions surrounding the use of narcotic analgesics in the treatment of childhood pain.
(18) As long as many women still find gyms – and particularly weights areas – unwelcoming, male-dominated spaces, it will prove difficult to tackle such misconceptions.
(19) The results of the study illustrate the misconception of chronic pain as an entity and highlight the importance of recognizing different neurobiological mechanisms and differences in responsiveness to analgesic drugs as well as to non-pharmacological modes of treatment.
(20) Dangerous misconceptions prevailed with regard to respondents' knowledge of areas including anatomy, physiology, and appropriate use of effective contraception.
Misinterpretation
Definition:
(n.) The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.
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.