(n.) A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.
(n.) Reflection; thought.
(v. t.) To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess.
Example Sentences:
(1) Taken together, the mutational data allow a functional map of the recognition surface to be constructed and the physical nature of some of the specific interactions that stabilize the antibody-antigen complex to be surmised.
(2) Thus, BMIPP is surmised to be able to depict fatty acid metabolism in in vivo myocardial imaging.
(3) We surmise that reduction in pulmonary artery perfusion which occurs in pulmonary embolic disease alters the integrity of the alveolar (and possibly bronchiolar) epithelium.
(4) We have concluded that renal injuries should be classified by type and extent rather than by etiology, that the extent of injury should be determined and not surmised, and that the management of renal trauma is a function of the extent of injury and the over-all status of the patient.
(5) Thus, it is surmised that swine cells are more suitable than rat cells concerning insulin receptor binding and action studies.
(6) It was, therefore, surmised that both hypertension and hyperlipidemia would be two of the important factors in inducing the lesions in the cerebral arteries, but although such factors would be coordinative, hypertension might be more important in the process of damaging the cerebral arteries and leading to their degenerative changes.
(7) Although these bodies are not viral elements, it is surmised that they may be virus associated and consequently possibly related to the etiology of this tumor.
(8) However, the results for TP indicated that prior aquation was not required for protein binding, and we could surmise that binding of TP to protein proceeds via a direct nucleophilic attack.
(9) Royles also had to endure more or less the entire committee laughing at him openly when he boasted about consultants' high levels of job satisfaction, something the chuckling Mps surmised might be caused by their stellar pay.
(10) Inasmuch as both isoproterenol and prostaglandin E1 increase cyclic AMP content, one can surmise that cyclic AMP is involved in the stimulation of NGF mRNA accumulation.
(11) Since drug elimination is intimately associated with physiologic properties that are well described among species, it seems reasonable to surmise that drug elimination can be scaled among mammals.
(12) It may be surmised that the approach is based on a sort of "attitude" incorporated in the given score and defining the hearing aid satsifaction.
(13) The authorities surmised that the victims were passengers on long-distance buses hijacked by the Zetas, and the people aboard press-ganged as part of a recruitment drive.
(14) It may be surmised that a single CLL cell had been infected by EBV in vivo and established itself subsequently as a subclone within the CLL population.
(15) Based on these data, it was surmised that sex hormones may affect the growth of the tumor in this case.
(16) Ifop’s director, Jérôme Fourquet, surmised that “the French do not only adhere to the rhetoric of ‘war’ – [prime minister] Manuel Valls talked about ‘war’ last January – but also to decisions that entail a restriction of public liberty”.
(17) It is surmised that the easier delocalization of the positive charge in the deuterated alkyl diazonium ion causes a diminished reactivity and therefore influences the type and amount of DNA alkylation.
(18) The protective effect of the monoclonal antibodies is surmised being caused by agglutination of the trophozoites.
(19) The authors surmise that the less advantageous variant of individual peripheral thermoregulation (i.e.
(20) It is surmised that the time of persistence of sperms in the cervix may be related to coitus in the second week after the end of the menstrual period.
Suspect
Definition:
(a.) Suspicious; inspiring distrust.
(a.) Suspected; distrusted.
(a.) Suspicion.
(a.) One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime.
(v. t.) To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; -- commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease.
(v. t.) To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.
(v. t.) To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story.
(v. t.) To look up to; to respect.
(v. i.) To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.
Example Sentences:
(1) The diagnosis of anaplastic thyroid cancer, though suspected, was deferred for permanent sections in all cases.
(2) Plain radiographs should be the initial screening modality for a suspected foreign body.
(3) Development at two to 15 months of age in the 19 surviving infants was normal in nine, suspect in eight, and severely delayed in two patients.
(4) The triad of epigastric pain unrelieved by antacids, bilious vomiting, and weight loss, particularly after a gastric operation should make one suspect this syndrome.
(5) Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse reactions may be the only way of revealing very rare events but they present great difficulties of rational interpretation.
(6) From these results, it can be suspected that the motor fibres are more vulnerable during aging.
(7) Fibreoptic bronchoscopy should be undertaken in patients suspected of having a pulmonary complication of AIDS, even if the chest radiograph is normal.
(8) Fifteen patients suspected to have Morton's neuroma were examined by computed tomography, which revealed the neuroma in seven cases.
(9) Proven necrotizing enterocolitis was seen in eight infants and was suspected in eight others.
(10) Persistence of hypercalcaemia combined with an increase in tubular reabsorption of calcium in response to cellulose phosphate may be of diagnostic value in suspected primary hyperparathyroidism.
(11) An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy with multiple biopsies was performed in 19 children suspected of Crohn disease (CD) who had also undergone X-ray investigations and colonoscopy with multiple biopsies.
(12) Bartter's syndrome was suspected because of the features of the hypokalemia, hyperaldosteronism, hyperreninemia, increased concentration of plasma angiotensin I & II, the defect in distal fractional reabsorption of chloride and normotension.
(13) When foods such as dairy products contain large numbers of egg yolk-negative strains of S. aureus, the PPSA agar has the advantage over egg yolk containing media such as Baird-Parker agar that fewer suspect colonies have to be confirmed.
(14) The initial screening failed to detect sickle cell anemia in 4 infants, but the hemoglobinopathy in 3 of these infants was diagnosed correctly by routine retesting of those with suspected sickle cell trait.
(15) Seventy-one patients with 80 lower limbs clinically suspected of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) were investigated by both Doppler ultrasound and venography.
(16) There is general agreement that suicides are likely to be undercounted, both for structural reasons (the burden-of-proof issue, the requirement that the coroner or medical examiner suspect the possibility of suicide) and for sociocultural reasons.
(17) We correlated the MRI report and arthroscopic findings of 18 patients with suspected meniscal or ligament injury.
(18) Forty-six percent of the plain abdominal radiographs were suspected for cecal volvulus, but only 17 percent were diagnostic.
(19) An infectious etiology should be suspected in cases of necrotizing scleritis associated with a purulent discharge, and appropriate smears and cultures should be obtained.
(20) As someone who worked in Washington DC in media activities, I often suspect that different standards in reporting are applied to African governments.