In medical parlance it would be a false negative.

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But Dr Walther has also shown that even if there were no such time-dependence, it would still be possible to get false results.

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The city says if it were to allow an individual like Ms Prinzivalli to obtain a new birth certificate with the different sex, it would be "knowingly issuing a false public record".

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