Biopsies of the mucosa are taken to definitively diagnose UC and differentiate it from Crohn's disease, which is managed differently clinically.

It is also possible to definitively diagnose hairy cell leukemia through flow cytometry on blood or bone marrow.

While the rates of endometrial and cervical cancer are overall higher than ovarian cancer, and these malignancies occur in younger people, it is still highly unlikely that this question will ever be definitively answered.

Cooked sweet corn has significant antioxidant activity, which has been suggested to reduce the chance of heart disease and cancer, although this has not been definitively proven in practice.

Other factors that have been investigated, such as talc use, asbestos exposure, high dietary fat content, and childhood mumps infection, are controversial and have not been definitively proven ; moreover, such risk factors may in some cases be more likely to be correlated with cancer in individuals with specific genetic makeups.

It was not until 1998 that the meta-analysis of the Oxford based Early Breast Cancer Trialists ' Collaborative Group showed definitively that tamoxifen saved lives in early breast cancer.

In any event, if testicular torsion cannot be definitively eliminated in an expeditious manner, a testicular Doppler ultrasound or exploratory surgical intervention is usually implemented to prevent possible loss of the testicle to necrosis.

Although circumstances of the procedure may look somewhat weird ( it was unanimously accepted on September 28, 1993, at the 2nd Bosniak Congress-an institution of Bosnian Muslim intellectuals and ideologues ), it seems that, in all likelihood, Bosnian Muslims have definitively reached the goal in their quest for national identity.

It is never definitively stated when the appearances of Gallifrey in the television series take place.

After his defeat of Ratchis, the last Lombard to rule as king was Desiderius, duke of Tuscany, who managed to take Ravenna definitively, ending the Byzantine presence in northern Italy.

Doing so would still not remove the controversy surrounding Kennewick Man as then it would have to be decided which Native American group should take possession of the remains if he could not be definitively linked with a current tribe.

The trials were meant to take place at the famous Döberitz proving ground near Berlin, but no record of any sort remains to definitively state what happened there.

The Pan American Championships in ALAS helped Peruvian surfing definitively take off internationally.

Although the court ordered more factual development before it could rule definitively on the issue, the court did hold that it was possible for the look and feel of the websites to have trade dress protection if the plaintiff ’ s copyright claims did not already cover those parts.

In 1551 the Council of Trent definitively declared: " Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread 6: 51, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood.

* Bob Caville is the network's managing director, and definitively pulls the office into line.

These distinctive ethnic, cultural, and legal differences of the Galatians encouraged them to remain definitively different even into the early Middle Ages.

It was definitively separated from the neighboring Duchy of Burgundy upon the latter's incorporation into France in 1477.

Erik's reign was short and the Viking kingdom of York was definitively incorporated into the kingdom of the English on his death in 954.

Leading into the one-month Olympic hiatus, the Sun orchestrated a five-game winning streak, improving to a league-best 15 – 4 record and showing definitively that their string of earlier losses was merely a blip.

In 1968 OM was definitively merged into the Fiat Group as a brand belonging to the Commercial Vehicles division, which also included Fiat and Unic.

About which Lukács said: " Just as the capitalist system continuously produces and reproduces itself economically on higher levels, the structure of reification progressively sinks more deeply, more fatefully, and more definitively into the consciousness of Man " — hence, commodification pervaded every conscious human activity, as the growth of capitalism commodified every sphere of human activity into a product that can be bought and sold in the market.

Finally, at a battle near Soisson, Charles definitively defeated his rivals and forced them into hiding, eventually accepting the king back on the condition that he receive his father's positions ( 718 ).

In 1626, Pope Urban VIII definitively incorporated the Duchy into the papal dominions, the gift of the last Della Rovere duke, in retirement after the assassination of his heir, to be governed by the archbishop.

With this, the Kingdom of Majorca was definitively incorporated into the Crown of Aragon.

It was inherited by King Louis XI of France in 1481, and definitively incorporated into the French royal domain by his son Charles VIII in 1484.

As a result, the area ( in and around the three tributaries that fed into the head of the Connecticut River ) was not definitively under the jurisdiction of either the United States or Canada.

Male to Female crossplay is typically divided quite definitively into these two groups: those engaging in genderplay, and those attempting to pass as female.

When the survey work was definitively ended in 1874, Whitney returned to Harvard and opened the school of mines, which was quickly merged a year later into the Lawrence Scientific School.

When Francis I, formerly the Count of Angoulême, became king in 1515, Angoumois was definitively incorporated into the French crown lands, as a duchy.

However, recent research into his surviving compositions indicates that some may have been produced after 1472, especially because they seem to show stylistic development beyond the ones that can be definitively dated to 1472 or before.

In 1941 they definitively integrated the trumpet into the musical interpretations of the group.

Further more, how can we actually recognize that the new position explains what it is supposed to explain or if it is deviating off into other areas and therefore how can the theories be definitively compared.

Crucially perhaps, William and Mary definitively accepted the Church of Scotland as a Presbyterian institution after decades of intermittent efforts by various monarchs, including James VI, Charles I, Charles II and James VII to mould the Church of Scotland into an Episcopalian institution more pliable to Royal control and possibly more acceptable to those monarchs who happened to be Catholic.

After Stymie's departure from the series later in 1935, the Buckwheat character slowly morphed into a boy, first referred to definitively as a " he " in 1936's The Pinch Singer.

In 1398, Vasily I definitively incorporated Volokolamsk into the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

The vagus nerve is hard to track definitively due to its ubiquitous nature in the thorax and abdomen so the major contributions will be discussed.

There is consensus among scholars that, whether or not it is religious, Confucianism is definitively non-theistic.

But if the joint conciliation text is not approved, the Parliament may adopt the budget definitively.

Although a recognition of sainthood by the Pope does not directly concern a fact of divine revelation, it must still be " definitively held " by the faithful as infallible under ( at the very least ) the Universal Magisterium of the Church since it is a truth connected to revelation by historical necessity.

Will ), and the effect is now considered to have been definitively verified by the experiments of Pound, Rebka and Snider between 1959 and 1965.

While Gram staining is a valuable diagnostic tool in both clinical and research settings, not all bacteria can be definitively classified by this technique, thus forming Gram-variable and Gram-indeterminate groups as well.

Although there is no doubt that most ( but not all ) of the later copies of the Antiquities contained references to Jesus and John the Baptist, it cannot be definitively shown that these were original to Josephus writings, and were not instead added later by Christian interpolators.

Unfortunately, there is no generally accepted worldwide criterion of difference definitively diagnostic, although a volume difference of 200 ml between limbs or a 4-cm difference ( at a single measurement site or set intervals along the limb ) is often used.

The term mozzarella is first found definitively mentioned in 1570, cited in a cookbook by Bartolomeo Scappi, reading " milk cream, fresh butter, ricotta cheese, fresh mozzarella and milk ".

Arising from this misidentification with other women throughout the four Gospels is the "... idea that this Mary was ' the woman who was a sinner ,' or that she was unchaste ", which has not been definitively decided ; the Vatican itself is not yet agreed.

The question is definitively resolved in Calvinism by asserting that all souls act according to God's sovereign will, and in Mormonism ( see below ) by asserting that human souls have always existed and are co-eternal with God.

One of the earliest important discoveries ( suggested by Richard Dixon Oldham in 1906 and definitively shown by Harold Jeffreys in 1926 ) was that the outer core of the earth is liquid.

In the ITER tokamak, it is expected that the occurrence of a limited number of major disruptions will definitively damage the chamber with no possibility to restore the device .< ref > Wurden, G., ( 2011 ) International Workshop " MFE Roadmapping in the ITER Era ", Princeton < http :// advprojects. pppl. gov / Roadmapping / presentations / MFE_POSTERS / WURDEN_Disruption_RiskPOSTER. pdf ></ ref >< ref > Baylor, L. R .; Combs, S. K .; Foust, C. R .; Jernigan, T. C.

Quite who Mother Shipton was or what exactly she said is not definitively known.

The territorial border between the two countries is being definitively mapped pursuant to a Land Border Agreement signed in December 1999, and an Agreement on Borders in the Gulf of Tonkin signed in December 2000.

He is by turns dismissed, satirised, or ignored, but he, and his tortured son, are never definitively discarded.

* The Praetor's Edict is definitively codifed by Salvius Julianus on Hadrian's orders.

While archaeologists can use the technique to date the piece of wood and when it was felled, it may be difficult to definitively determine the age of a building or structure that the wood is in.

Though Thackeray does not settle definitively whether Becky murders Jos, such a development is in keeping with the overall trend of character development in the novel.

The meaning of tersitu is not known definitively.