misindicate

To indicate incorrectly.

Verb

  1. To indicate incorrectly.
    • The external monitor can be displaced and therefore misindicate the contraction’s duration and frequency. - 1977, Constance A. Bean, “The Medical School and Gloria”, in Labor and Delivery: An Observer’s Diary: What You...
    • The external morphology of the terminal segments of the female abdomen of Piesma has given rise to various interpretations. In their 1975 publication, the authors corrected numerous errors by Wagner (1953, 1954, 1966)...
    • Further, when we talk about the malfunction of infant reflexes, we do not discuss them from an evolutionary point of view. Instead, we discuss them from a medical point of view. That is, both the Morrow and the...

Origin

From mis- + indicate.

Forms

misindicates misindicating misindicated