con·jec·ture

(kən-jĕk′chər)

1. Opinion or judgment based on inconclusive or incomplete evidence; guesswork.

2. An opinion or conclusion based on guesswork: The commentators made various conjectures about the outcome of the next election.

v. con·jec·tured, con·jec·tur·ing, con·jec·tures

v.tr.

To judge or conclude by conjecture; guess: "From the comparative silence below ... I conjectured that Mr Rochester was now at liberty" (Charlotte Brontë).

v.intr.

To make a conjecture.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin coniectūra, from coniectus, past participle of conicere, to infer : com-, com- + iacere, to throw; see yē- in Indo-European roots.]

con·jec′tur·a·ble adj.

con·jec′tur·al adj.

con·jec′tur·al·ly adv.

con·jec′tur·er n.

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Buzzwords include terms such as "drug of choice," "gold standard," "novel," "breakthrough," "unique," "preferred," "targeted," and "well-tolerated." Terms that are highly conjecturable can be considered false or misleading.

Should physician executives stoop to popularizing medicine?

The first and most obvious of which is the conjecturable totality of the law (which is work), from which follows a corresponding withdrawal of outside or beyond the law.

The concert was not a success: on the withdrawal of withdrawal

It is further conjecturable that this process may be facilitated in women ethnically prone to short stature (such as Middle-Eastern women).

Short stature is an independent risk marker for mortality and incident coronary heart disease only in women: a structural relationship?/Kisa boy mortalite ve insidan koroner kalp hastaligi riskinin yalnizca kadinlarda bagimsiz bir belirtecidir: yapisal iliski mi?

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