VALIDATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does validated mean? 

• VALIDATED (adjective)
  The adjective VALIDATED has 1 sense:

1. declared or made legally valid

  Familiarity information: VALIDATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VALIDATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Declared or made legally valid

Context example:

a validated claim

Similar:

valid (well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force)

 Context examples 

In the newly validated batch of planets, nearly 550 could be rocky planets like Earth based on size.

(Kepler Mission Announces Largest Collection of Planets Ever Discovered, NASA)

Data from the Keck Observatory validated that the dimming was indeed caused by a planet, and also helped confirm its youthful age.

(NASA's K2 Finds Newborn Exoplanet Around Young Star, NASA)

A validated dyspnea rating scale may be useful.

(Decreased Peak Expiratory Flowrate, NCI Thesaurus)

During follow-up 2,193 first cases of cancer were diagnosed and validated (693 breast cancers, 291 prostate cancers, and 166 colorectal cancers).

(Possible link found between sugary drinks, cancer, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

These measures – including cortex thickness, cortex myelin content, task and resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) – cross-validated each other.

(Connectome map more than doubles human cortex’s known regions, NIH)

Oncotype DX is validated for use in breast cancer patients whose disease is newly diagnosed, stage I or II, node-negative, estrogen receptor-positive and who will be treated with tamoxifen.

(Oncotype DX breast cancer assay, NCI Thesaurus)

If validated in larger studies, this approach may prove to be a relatively simple way to quickly restore a person’s healthy microbiome following intensive antimicrobial therapy.

(Fecal microbiota transplantation helps restore beneficial bacteria in cancer patients, National Institutes of Health)

The team validated the tallest tree’s height, and collected samples from the understory to try to understand what makes this site so special.

(Expedition finds tallest tree in the Amazon, University of Cambridge)

This model will need to be validated by additional studies, however, before it can be used in clinical practice.

(17% of Food-Allergic Children Have Sesame Allergy, National Institutes of Health)

It is currently being adapted and validated among the Turkish population, thanks to collaboration with Hacettepe University.

(Scientists designed the first test to detect dysphagia, University of Granada)