(a.) Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy.
Example Sentences:
(1) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(2) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(3) This would disrupt and prevent Isis from maintaining stable and reliable sources of income.
(4) A beta-adrenergic receptor cDNA cloned into a eukaryotic expression vector reliably induces high levels of beta-adrenergic receptor expression in 2-12% of COS cell colonies transfected with this plasmid after experimental conditions are optimized.
(5) Pokeweed mitogen-stimulated rat spleen cells were identified as a reliable source of rat burst-promoting activity (PBA), which permitted development of a reproducible assay for rat bone marrow erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E).
(6) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
(7) Data collection at the old hospital for comparison, however, was not always reliable.
(8) Comparison if single injections of MSB and atropine in normal subjects also demonstrated a more reliable dose-response relationship with MSB.
(9) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
(10) Improvement of its particularly poor prognosis requires therefore early screening based on reliable biological markers.
(11) A 6.4 kilobase C4B-5'-specific Taq I fragment usually provided a reliable guide to the presence of a C4A deletion but unusually in one instance this fragment was found to be a marker of a functioning C4A gene.
(12) Abnormal albuminuria at levels not reliably detected by the usual dipstick methods was commonly observed in Pima Indians with diabetes, even those with diabetes of recent onset.
(13) It is concluded that the transcutaneous ultrasound technique provides a reliable, rapidly available, non-invasive method to confirm the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis.
(14) This new index provides a reliable method to assess drug therapy appropriateness.
(15) The quantitative method used for determination of HBDH is reliable, accurate, simple and rapid and therefore has better value in a clinical setting than electrophoresis and adsorption techniques which are laborious and time consuming.
(16) The capacity of granule-cell networks to separate overlapping patterns of activity on their inputs is adequate, with spatial variability in the secretion at synapses, but is improved if there is also temporal variability in the stochastic secretion at individual synapses, although this is at the expense of reliability in the network.
(17) Interexaminer reliability studies indicate that a standard method of motion palpation is quite feasible and accurate.
(18) In conclusion, 99Tcm-MIBI SPECT provides a reliable method for detecting CAD.
(19) As a result of measures taken to reduce artifacts and to improve the signal-to-noise ratio, the measurements were performed reliably, with little inconvenience for the patients; all measurements could be used for analysis.
(20) This method can characterize reliably flavivirus field isolates at the molecular level without extensive virus propagation and molecular cloning, and will be a valuable tool for molecular epidemiological studies.
Unreliable
Definition:
(a.) Not reliable; untrustworthy. See Reliable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pure bile gave 32 correct diagnoses (67%) and 14 diagnoses of inadequate material (29%), which contained few nondegenerated cells and made microscopic diagnosis unreliable.
(2) This measurement system, therefore, was found to be unreliable.
(3) My unreliable BlackBerry was hurting business," she said.
(4) It is well known that dopaminergic agents are stimulators of GH release in man, and although responses are sometimes unreliable, oral L-dopa and iv dopamine have frequently been employed in the evaluation of GH-deficient states.
(5) The existence of a latent viral infection state in these seronegative subjects indicates the unreliability of standard serological analysis in people who have been in regular contact with infected patients.
(6) The unreliable items were then deleted, and the revised scales were assessed in Study 2.
(7) Although electroencephalogram was set up to detect the sign of brain ischemia during surgery, it became unreliable because of electrical noise from the medical instruments.
(8) In high thoracic level lesion paraplegics monitoring heart rate was considered to be unreliable because of suspicion of injury to the sympathetic contribution to the cardiac plexus.
(9) The eversion technique was unreliable and probably injurious to endothelial cells.
(10) Our results implied that crepitation is a rather unreliable sign of arthrosis.
(11) In other words clinical and laboratory diagnosis of "cardiac liver" was found to be totally unreliable whereas, among instrumental examinations, liver echography proved to be a reasonably efficient alternative to laparoscopy.
(12) During automated perimetry with the Humphrey Visual Field Analyzer, field examinations are labeled unreliable whenever the reported rate of fixation loss is 20% or more.
(13) It is only useful when there is doubt and in this case both a lateral and an antero-posterior film are necessary as the obstetric conjugate alone was unreliable in predicting the transverse diameter of the inlet as well as the outcome.
(14) The size of the spleen was an unreliable diagnostic parameter as regards involvement with lymphogranulomatosis.
(15) Although exercise-induced ST segment depression is thought to be unreliable marker of myocardial ischemia in the presence of resting electrocardiographic changes, this conclusion is based on limited and disparate data from studies often lacking acceptable measures of ischemia.
(16) Preliminary evidence (n = 15) with semiquantitative (latex) determinations of C-reactive protein (CRP) suggested an unreliable CRP response in systemic Group B streptococcal infection.
(17) Solubility tests for sickling disorders (Itano) also proved unreliable.
(18) We emphasize that maternal serum AFP levels may be unreliable for prenatal screening for fetal neural tube defects in women taking valproate and recommend that amniocentesis and fetal ultrasound examination should be offered directly.
(19) Australia has chosen an unreliable security and surveillance partner.
(20) Whereas suboptimal sensitivity and sampling error may make a negative diagnosis unreliable, lymphoma marker studies (combined with morphology) allow for an accurate and confident diagnosis and subclassification of lymphoma in the majority of cases.