Look up: False Positive

1. False positive
   When our data leads us to believe something is true when it is in fact untrue.
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2. False positive
   In screening, this means a positive test for a disease when the person doesn't have the disease. This means that the person has to have further tests that they don't need. The tests may cause side effects. A potential screening test that produces too many false positive results cannot be widely used.
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3. False positive
   False positive: A result that is erroneously positive when a situation is normal. An example of a false positive: a particular test designed to detect cancer of the toenail is positive but the person does not have toenail cancer.
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4. false positive
   <statistics> A test result that is read as positive when it is really negative. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...
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5. False Positive
   Denoting a test result that wrongly indicates that a person has the attribute or disease for which the test is conducted. Often times, during prenatal testing, a woman is given a positive result and the infant shows no sign of the condition that was being tested for.
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6. false positive
   Type: Term Pronunciation: fawls poz′i-tiv Definitions: 1. A test result that erroneously assigns a patient to a specific diagnostic or reference group, due particularly to insufficiently exact methods of testing. 2. A patient whose test results include that person in a particular diagnostic gr...
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7. False positive
   A hit that is erroneously recognized as good (positive).
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8. false-positive
   (fawls´ pos´ĭ-tiv) denoting a test result that wrongly assigns an individual to a diagnostic or other category. an individual so categorized. an instance of such a result; called also false-positive reaction.
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