What's the difference between overlead and overread?
Overlead
Definition:
(v. t.) To domineer over; to affront; to treat with indignity.
Example Sentences:
(1) This tissue culture model forms a convenient basis for the study of iron overlead and iron chelation.
(2) Substituting soya oil for lard considerably reduced hypercholesterolemia in the male rat with induced hypercholesterolemia due to a dietary overlead of cholesterol and sodium deoxycholate.
Overread
Definition:
(v. t.) To read over, or peruse.
Example Sentences:
(1) A correlation coefficient of 0.92 (p less than 0.001) was found between the two instruments, with the Pulsair having a statistically significant tendency to overread the Goldmann slightly in this situation.
(2) Each computer statement, however, must be carefully overread by the physician, for failure to do so may result in overlooking significant electrocardiographic findings.
(3) To validate the compression method, qualitative evaluation was performed by two physicians overreading the ECGs by comparing the reconstructed waveforms with the original uncompressed data.
(4) In the lower nasal compartment the correspondence between CT and plain film readings was 57%, with a notable tendency to overread the plain films.
(5) The program consists of the following components: (1) alphanumeric data entry, (2) ECG wave form digitization, (2) calculation of test results, (4) physician overread, and (5) editor function for remeasurements.
(6) Lymphangiograms similarly were of questionable value, being interpreted as positive in twenty-one patients but histologically involved in only seven patients (overread, 67 per cent.
(7) The implications of this variability in radiographic readings for public health decisions was illustrated in Minnesota, where selective overreading of radiographs of female subjects created an illusion of a generalized environmental problem rather than an occupational exposure.
(8) Other disagreements resulted from the trained grader's overreading photographs of eyes with lesions simulating diabetic retinopathy.
(9) Review of another series of 40 Pap smears that had been reported previously as positive for C. trachomatis showed only 25 with inclusions, an observation suggesting that routine Pap smears are being overread for chlamydial infection.
(10) On the other hand, the presence of overlying pleural abnormalities as well as technical factors may contribute to overreading of interstitial disease.
(11) Maybe i'm overreading this, but the photo has a touch of the famous Bullingdon club photo about it.
(12) This computerized exercise ECG digitization-interpretation program is accurate and reproducible for the quantitative assessment of ST changes and requires minimal time allotment for physician overread.
(13) A system that combines probit analysis and principle components transformation coupled with maximum likelihood decision theory, through identification of the complexes most subject to classification error in the initial review process and by correcting residual errors automatically, can decrease the number of complexes which need to be overread by a human editor.
(14) Both jackets showed the same pattern of frequency response, overreading at less than 10 Hz and underreading at 10-25 Hz.
(15) The improvement is based largely on an increased true-positive rate without an increased false-positive rate, regardless of the decision criteria of the radiologist (overall willingness to "overread" or "underread").
(16) Compared with conventional angiography, both magnetic resonance angiography and duplex scanning tended to overread the degree of stenosis.
(17) The current systems can provide quality control of technician performance, acquisition equipment, and physician overreading.
(18) We conclude that severe disease of the contralateral carotid artery can lead to overreading ipsilateral disease and that velocity determinations should be interpreted cautiously under such circumstances.
(19) This overreading was greatest for the Mini-Wright and Ferraris devices, and less so for the original Wright and Vitalograph meters.
(20) The least-experienced observer consistently underread whereas the more experienced observer slightly overread exophthalmometry, relative to the senior observer.