0 past simple and past participle of concede
1 to admit, often unwillingly, that something is true:
[ + (that) ] The government has conceded (that) the new tax policy has been a disaster.
[ + speech ] "Well okay, perhaps I was a little hard on her," he conceded.
2 to allow someone to have something, even if you do not want to:
3 to fail to stop an opposing team or person from winning a point or game:
She conceded defeat well before all the votes had been counted.
Hysen handled the ball and conceded the penalty that gave Manchester United the lead.
Clinton conceded, "We bit off more than we could chew in our original healthcare reform proposals."
He conceded that he had been a little harsh.
It does seem, however, that the vessels may be more similar in morphology to bronchial arteries than has previously been conceded.
If circularities of that sort are conceded, pretty much anything can be legitimated with anything.
Secondly, and as conceded by the authors, any role of oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy remains to be examined in future studies.
