confirmatorios

Confirmatorio is an adjective derived from the Latin confirmare, used in Spanish and Portuguese to describe something that serves to confirm or verify a fact, result, or assertion. The plural form confirmatorios can refer to tests, documents, acts, or procedures whose purpose is to provide corroboration or validation in a given context. In everyday usage the term appears in medical, legal, administrative, and research settings.

In medicine, a confirmatorio test is performed after a screening test to establish a diagnosis with higher certainty. This use is common in diagnostic algorithms where an initial result is followed by a second, more specific test to confirm the finding (for example, follow-up assays after an initial positive screen).

In legal and administrative settings, documentos confirmatorios or actos confirmatorios are instruments that corroborate facts, terms, or identities. They may include certificates, affidavits, letters, or notarial acts that confirm information or obligations stated previously.

In research and statistics, confirmatorio refers to methods and analyses designed to verify hypotheses or prior results rather than explore new patterns. This includes confirmatory tests in statistics and confirmatory factor analysis, where the data are evaluated against predefined models.

The term is often used as a general label across disciplines to distinguish between provisional or exploratory measures and those intended to reinforce an accepted conclusion.