Look up: False Negative

1. False negative
   When our data leads us to believe something is untrue when it is in fact true.
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2. False negative
   In screening, this means a negative test for a disease when a person has the disease. A potential screening test that produces too many false negative results cannot be widely used.
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3. False negative
   False negative: A result that appears negative but fails to reveal a situation. An example of a false negative: a particular test designed to detect cancer of the toenail is negative but the person has toenail cancer.
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4. false negative
   <statistics> A term used to indicate a test showed an incorrect negative result. ... (16 Dec 1997) ...
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5. False Negative
   Denoting a test result that wrongly indicates that a persn does not have the attribute or disease for which the test was conducted. Often times, pregnancy tests will show a negative result when, in fact, the woman is actually pregnant. Some results of prenatal tests will reveal a false negative result.
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6. false negative
   Type: Term Pronunciation: fawls neg′ă-tiv Definitions: 1. A test result that erroneously excludes someone from a specific diagnostic or reference group. 2. A patient whose test results exclude that person from a particular diagnostic group to which the person ought truly belong. 3. Term c...
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7. false-negative
   (fawls´ neg´ә-tiv) denoting a test result that wrongly excludes an individual from a diagnostic or other category. an individual so excluded. an instance of such a result; called also false-negative reaction.
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