Explained deaths were those in which the postmortem studies revealed a known cause of death, including infection, accident, homicide, or unequivocal asphyxia, defined as documented obstruction of the nose and mouth, or chest constriction upon the death scene investigation.
The only way in which information from multiple databases can truly be shared and made useful is through the careful use of unequivocal, well defined, consistent and structured metadata.
In the future, it has to be clarified whether, in addition to clinical scores with unequivocal and clearly defined cut-offs, well defined immune parameters, such as distinct biomarker profiles, may improve diagnosis of infection and severity of disease, prediction of outcome, guidance and success of therapeutic interventions [ 3, 12, 13].
Unequivocal identification was defined as the highest sequence homology (99%) with a unique species sequence in GenBank.
These studies have defined an unequivocal dependence of nitroglycerin bioactivation on ALDH2.
A microscopically positive (R1) margin was defined as unequivocal tumor extension to the inked margin on permanent section.
Dysplasia was defined as unequivocal neoplastic epithelium strictly confined within the basement membrane of the gland from which it arises.
The first step is to define simple, unequivocal, and practical guidelines specific to different groups of children at high risk and healthy infants <2 years of age.
Low- and high-grade dysplasia (synonym: intraepithelial neoplasia) was defined as unequivocal neoplastic transformation according to previously published criteria (Lewin and Appelman, 1995).
Low- and high-grade dysplasia (synonym: intraepithelial neoplasias; Gabbert et al, 2000) was defined as unequivocal neoplastic transformation according to criteria published previously (Lewin and Appelman, 1995).
