(1) Serology is often more accurate, but is also more costly and should be reserved for those cases in which other analytical methods are either impossible or too undependable (low transmission level).
(2) The unsoluble cell ingredient is a comparatively toxic preparation, producing an undependable immunosuppressive effect.
(3) The design of cancer chemoprevention trials for prostate presents several problems, such as the age of the study population and undependable methods for detecting microscopic foci by sequential sampling.
(4) The composition of the peptides of the intestinal content is essentially undependent of the amino-acid composition of the diet.
(5) It is undependable during postpartum, lactation, and at the end of the childbearing years, however.
(6) A technique using chloroform effectively preserved all sixteen pesticides for the three weeks of the study and refrigeration was effective for fourteen of the pesticides, but buffers of pH 4 and pH 7 appeared undependable as preservatives.
(7) As founder of the ureteral catheterisation and the functional renal diagnostics he helped the urology, for the recognition of which as an undependent subject he fought a life-long struggle, to further reputation.
(8) The method for isolating the virus on chick embryos from immune birds have proved undependable: the higher the immunity of birds, the lower the probability of virus isolation.
(9) The kinetics of ADH is undependent on concentration, the MEOS is inducible.
(10) Possible roles for aldosterone, ADH and progesterone in maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance are discussed, emphasising problems confronting species which have evolved with heavy obligatory potassium excretion but undependable supplies of sodium and water.
(11) "In an ironic twist the formerly undependable Winnie [Mandela's wife] has now become one of the most effective channels to Mandela."
(12) The position and shape of the jugular bulb are undependable, and thus can add difficulty to temporal bone surgery.
(13) The distribution of the neuropathic changes was undependent of the underlying disorder.
(14) Undependently of this result the distribution of the rate of prematures by twins is evaluated for the order of birthes and borns and for child bearing age.
(15) Rectal temperature, not surprisingly, was found to be a late and undependable early indicator of developing hyperthermia, requiring about 15 minutes to exhibit a definite increase.
(16) However most of the published studies show that duration in intensive care is similar undepending of age and outcome of the patient.
(17) The clinical signs and symptoms of the disorder are nonspecific, and the results of laboratory tests are undependable.
(18) The contributions to unreliability variance (Sr2) that occur as a result of measuring errors (Sp2, imprecision variance) and of intrasubject fluctuations in a measurement due to physiologic factors (Sd2, undependability) were estimated (Sr2 = Sp2 + Sd2).
(19) Method III (isotopic steady-state method) proved to be undependable because of uncertainties in determining the existence of an isotopic steady state.
(20) The relationship of low social class to the onset of depression is discussed in the light of better-known vulnerability factors such as low confiding in, and undependability of, marital partner, employment outside the home and number of children.
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.